predictive models, and fact-based management to drive decisions and actions. The course employs a selected statistical software package as the primary tool for data management, statistical analysis and graphics. There is no rigorous development of data mining schemes however students are expected to do some programming and develop clear understanding of basic data modeling. MGT 86512 Managerial Accounting for Decision Making 3 Credits This course is a study of the use of accounting information in planning, control, and special decision-making. It involves the uses of accounting data internally by managers in directing the affairs of business and non-business organizations. It focuses on the needs of the manager for financial information and timely reports on the firm’s operations in order to make sound managerial decisions. MGT 86519 Ethics in Business 3 Credits This course focuses on corporate behavior and decision making from the context of ethical and global issues; the influence of political environmental, legal, regulatory, and technological issues and the impact of diversity on organizations. Through readings and case studies, an understanding of a wide variety of workplace issues, such as discrimination, product safety, international operations, right to privacy, advertising and product safety is developed. MGT 86529 Project Management 3 Credits The course is organized around the project management life cycle to mirror the way a real-world project would be executed. It provides you with essential project management concepts and ties them into the Project Management Body of Knowledge developed by the Project Management Institute. Techniques such as PERT, Gantt and CPM for tracking the integrated nature of performance, cost and time in every project are included. MGT 86535 Management of Change 3 Credits This course provides a current 21st Century snapshot of the world of leadership development and organizational change. It discusses social systems that begin to reduce resistance to change and development through more employee and customer-centered programs. Organizations studied are widely recognized as among the best in organizational change and leadership development today. MGT 86536 Cross Cultural Management 3 Credits This course develops cross-cultural competency for meaningful human relationships for success as professionals, managers, or technicians. It explores the interaction of how ethnicity affects today’s organizational structure while fashioning a postindustrial knowledge culture amidst worldwide chaos. Also emphasizes the importance of culture and its impact on human behavior and performance as it develops diversity consciousness. MGT 86537 Management of Information Systems for Managers 3 Credits This course describes the role of IT in management, including current professional practices and methodologies. It includes presentation of systems theory, decision theory, organizational models, types of IT, planning and IT development. The
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