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MGTCB/526: Managing in a Changing Environment
Course Information
Description
This course covers the skills and techniques managers need to provide leadership and direction within a changing organizational environment. Students will examine fast-paced changes including evolving demographics and emerging technologies and how they relate to innovative talent management, leadership, and managerial responses to addressing future organizational challenges.
Credits
3
Competency Statements and Learning Objectives
Competency Statement Competency Learning Objectives (LO) Where you will
demonstrate your learning:
Using a SWOT analysis, the MBA candidate will be able to evaluate competitive advantage and present a proposal for adapting to changes in the global business environment.
Competency 1 –
Analyze the needs of organizations within a changing global business environment.
Learning Objective 1 – Differentiate the four functions of management.
Learning Objective 2 – Examine the factors involved in creating strategic business objectives.
Competency 1 – Competency Assessment
Using Porter’s Five Forces and contingency leadership models, the MBA candidate will be able to present recommendations for alignment of operational needs with business strategies.
Competency 2 –
Align operational needs with business strategies.
Learning Objective 3 – Analyze how leadership theories affect business strategies.
Learning Objective 4 – Create an organizational structure based on business strategy.
Competency 2 – Competency Assessment
By analyzing current cultural, demographic and technological forces, as well as a company's compliance with ethical and social responsibilities, the MBA candidate will present recommendations for organizational innovation.
Competency 3 –
Explain how evolving demographics and emerging technologies transform organizations.
Learning Objective 5 – Analyze how an organization’s demographics and use of technologies affect the business environment.
Learning Objective 6 – Analyze how an organization’s ethics and social responsibility actions affect the business environment.
Competency 3 – Competency Assessment
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Materials
Textbook Jones, G. R., (2020). Contemporary management (11th ed). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
Tools McGraw-Hill Connect
Course Overview
Competency Activities Assessment
Competency 1 – Analyzing the Needs of Organizations
Overview, Assignment Information, Assessment Rubric
Learning Resources – Introduction to Business Management
• Learn: Essential Managerial Tasks
• Learn: Business Administration and Management
• Practice – Ch. 1, “Managers and Managing”
• Practice – Ch. 6, “Managing in the Global Environment”
• Practice: Introduction to Business Management
Learning Resources – Managerial Planning and Strategy
• University Library Reading & SWOT Simulation
• Conducting a SWOT Analysis and Using the SWOT Analysis - LinkedIn Learning
• Practice: Ch. 8, “The Manager as a Planner and Strategist”
• Practice: Managerial Planning and Strategy
Competency 1 – Reflection
Competency 1 – Assessment
Competency 2 – Aligning Operational Needs with Business Strategies
Overview, Assignment Information, Assessment Rubric
Learning Resources – Managerial Leadership
• University Library Readings
• Learn: Leadership Theories
• Learn: Accessing the Market
• Learn: Animated Video: “Hersey and Blanchard’s Theory of Leadership”
• Learn: iSeeIt! Porter’s Four Competitive Strategies
• Practice: Ch. 8, “The Five Forces Model” (Manager as Strategist)
• Practice: Ch. 14, “Leadership”
• Practice: Managerial Leadership
Learning Resources – Organizational Structure
• University Library Readings and Organizational Chart
• Learn: Organizational Structure
• Practice: Ch. 10, “Managing Organization’s Mission and Goals”
• Practice: Ch. 12, “Human Resource Management”
• Practice: Ch. 15, “Effective Groups and Teams”
• Practice: Organizational Structure
Competency 2 – Reflection
Competency 2 – Assessment
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Competency Activities Assessment
Competency 3 – Effect of Demographics and Emerging Technologies
Overview, Assignment Information, Assessment Rubric
Learning Resources – The Changing Management Environment
• University Library Readings
• Practice: Ch. 10, “Managing Organizational Structure and Culture”
• Practice: Ch. 11, “Organizational Control and Change”
• Practice: Ch. 18, “Using Advanced I.T. to Increase Performance”
• Practice: The Changing Management Environment
Learning Resources – Ethics and Social Responsibility
• University Library Readings
• Learn: Manager’s Hot Seat: Whistleblowing – Code Red or Red Ink?
• Learn: Manager’s Hot Seat: Ethics – Let’s Make a Fourth Quarter Deal
• Practice: Ch. 4, “Ethics and Social Responsibility”
• Practice: Ethics and Social Responsibility
Competency 3 – Reflection
Competency 3 – Assessment
Competency 1, 2, & 3 Final Course Reflection
