Undergraduate and graduate students successfully completing this
course will understand and be able to teach others how to:
a.  Analyze the management functions and their implementation 
and integration within the business environment.
b.  Analyze management theories and their application within 
the business environment.
c.  Analyze the organization of a business.
d.  Develop personal management skills to function effectively 
and efficiently in a business environment.
e.  Examine the role of ethics and social responsibility in 
decision making.
f.  Describe human resource functions and their importance to 
an organization's successful operation.
g.  Describe the role of organized labor and its influence on 
government and business.
h.  Utilize information and technology tools to conduct 
business effectively and efficiently.
i.  Analyze financial data influenced by internal and external 
factors in order to make short-term and long-term decisions.
j.  Apply operations management principles and procedures to 
the design of an operations plan.
k.  Recognize that entrepreneurs possess unique characteristics 
and evaluate the degree to which one possesses those 
characteristics.
l.  Analyze customer groups and develop a plan to identify, 
reach, and keep customers in a specific target market.
m.  Apply economic concepts when making decisions for an 
entrepreneurial venture.
n.  Use the financial competencies needed by an entrepreneur.
o.  Recognize that entrepreneurs must establish, maintain, and 
analyze appropriate records to make business decisions.
p.  Analyze how forms of business ownership, government 
regulations, and business ethics affect entrepreneurial 
ventures.

Graduate students successfully completing this course will
understand and be able to teach others how to:
a.  Conduct a needs assessment for a business.
b.  Develop a business and management plan for a business.
c.  Plan the product or service for a business.
d.  Prepare a marketing strategy and financial plan for a 
business.
e.  Plan production, staff, operate and evaluate the business.

I.     Implement management functions
     A.  Planning, organizing, directing, leading, controlling
         and evaluation
     B.  Integrate management functions within the business
         environment
II.    Analyze management theories
     A.  Contemporary theories, including contingency, systems, 
         chaos, change management theory, and traditional
         theories, including scientific, bureaucratic, and human
         relations management theories
     B.  Apply management theories within the business
         environment
III.   Analyze the organization of a business
     A.  Personal management skills
     B.  Ethics and social responsibility in decision making
     C.  Human resource functions
IV.    Organized labor
 V.    Information and technology tools such as workflow
       management and decision tools
VI.    Financial data analysis and operations management tools
VII.   Entrepreneur and management characteristics
VIII.  Target markets and customer group analysis 
IX.    Decision making
       A.  Economic concepts
       B.  Financial competencies 
       C.  Records management
       D.  Factors affecting business ventures, including
           government regulations, business ethics and form of
           business ownerships
X.     Needs assessment, business and management plan
       A.  Product or service plans
       B.  Marketing strategies and financial plans
       C.  Production, staffing, operation, and evaluation

Instructors of this course will adhere to University of Georgia
Academic Honesty Policy, "A Culture of Honesty" located at
http://www.uga.edu/honesty/ahpd/culture_honesty.htm and uphold
the University of Georgia Student Honor Code identified as
Section 7 of the Academic Honesty Policy
http://www.uga.edu/honesty/ahpd/sect07.htm.