The course guides students to develop a comprehensive business plan for starting their own enterprises. Future career opportunities are reviewed in all of these functions as well as entrepreneurial businesses and franchises. This course concentrates on explaining individual and group behavior in organizations. Topics include motivation, communication, power, influence, leadership, conflict management, organizational development. We will also consider public sector organizations, from the Federal Government to small as hoc activist groups.
All organizations have common constraints and objectives.
All organizations must have a surplus of revenues over expenses in order to insure survival into the long term future. All organizations are independent. They must recognize the demands of the society in which they are allowed to operate. Business 323 will examine the dynamics created by the need to balance individual organizational goals and objectives with the demands of society. The contributions of behavioral science to motivational systems and to relationships among individuals and organizations are examined.