Gannon University Undergraduate Catalog 2013-2014

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value to the customers by designing and continuously improving organizational processes and systems. This approach involves all employees and extends backward and forward in the supply chain to encompass the entire product life cycle. QM is concerned with managing the entire organizational system, not only subsystems or functional departments within a corporation. Prerequisite: BCOR 221 3 credits MGMT 360: Ethical and Social Responsibility This course explores the nature of various interrelationships within the environment of the firm, particularly the relationship with societies and governments, including the effects of globalization on the firm. The responsibilities the firm has when pursuing its objectives and critically assessing the ethical issues associated with managerial decision making are the major focus of the course. Prerequisite: LPHI 131 3 credits MGMT 370: Management Science The use of quantitative tools in decision making. Topics will be selected from the following: model building, assignment methods, transportation methods, linear programming, inventory, pert, queuing, simulation, expectation, decision trees, and decision theory. Prerequisites: BCOR 221, BCOR 251, CIS 150 3 credits MGMT 375: Organizational Internship Selected students will be able to spend a period of time (50 hours per credit hour) working as an Intern with a local organization. During this period the student will maintain a journal, will meet regularly with a faculty member, and with a supervisor to provide continuing evaluation of quality and progress of the student's work. At the conclusion of the experience the student will submit a paper to the supervisor and faculty member and make an oral presentation. Prerequisite: Junior who has permission of the department and the cooperating organization. 1-3 credits MGMT 399: Special Topics in Management A specially designed course which consists of contemporary issues in management.

3 credits

MGMT 410: Supply Chain Management Successful organizations align processes and quality issues with the demands of the marketplace by meeting and exceeding custom expectations. This course is an introduction to the issues and decisions that are routinely faced by supply chain managers. It will investigate how successful firms integrate the sourcing, manufacturing, fulfillment and quality processes across supply-chain networks to support a customer-oriented operation. Prerequisite: MGMT 325 3 credits THE NEXT STEP Baccalaureate Degree program for Graduates of Two Year Colleges. Management (Numerals in front of course indicate credits) 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

Pre-Senior Year Business Statistics/BCOR221 Business & Prof Comm/BCOR 231 Principles of Marketing/BCOR 241 Financial Management/BCOR 311 Sacred Scripture/LTHE 121 Introduction to Philosophy/LPHI 131 Human Resource Mgmt/MGMT 211

3 3 3 3 1 3

Senior Year Global Business/BCOR 306 Experiential Learning/BCOR 450 Business Policy/BCOR 480* Theology or Phil III Series/ LTHE or LPHI Leadership Seminar Literature Series/LENG


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