BUSM 261 Business Management
This course explores the management of a business enterprise with emphasis on the correct methods of operating a business efficiently. Additional topics of discussion include personality and attitude requirements, organizing business operations, preparation of business communications, and strategies to encourage ethical behavior by managers and employees.
BUSM 261Business Management
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I. General Information
II. Course Specification
Course Type
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Credit Hours Narrative
3 Credits
Semester Contact Hours Lecture
45
Semester Contact Hours Lab
0
Semester Contact Hours Clinical
0
III. Catalog Course Description
This course explores the management of a business enterprise with emphasis on the correct methods of operating a business efficiently. Additional topics of discussion include personality and attitude requirements, organizing business operations, preparation of business communications, and strategies to encourage ethical behavior by managers and employees.
IV. Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, a student will be able to:
- Explain the roles, responsibilities, and accountability of managers in planning, organizing, leading, and controlling within an organization.
- Identify the impact of change on business operations and employees.
- Describe the importance of ethics in business and identify strategies to encourage ethical behavior by managers and employees.
- Employ software tools (e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to produce professional quality business communications (e.g., letters, memos, presentations, and emails) to address a variety of business situations.
- Describe formal and informal communication realities and processes within organizations (e.g., social and organizational networks).
- Prepare a business report that integrates data from multiple sources to illustrate and emphasize key information.
- Interpret and analyze financial information to make business decisions.
- Explore the role and relationship of business with the external environment including economic, social, ethical, physical, and political perspectives.
- Develop team building, creative problem solving (qualitative/quantitative), and information literacy skills.
- Develop professional business conduct skills.
V. Topical Outline (Course Content)
VI. Delivery Methodologies