Each student develops a business plan in either Retailing Operations, Service Business, or Manufacturing Operations. Organizations are essential to the way our society operates and permeate and shapes our lives. In addition to being the means for providing goods and services, organizations create the settings in which most people will spend a good part of their lives working either as subordinates or managers or both. This course offers students an understanding of the components that make up an organization, its complexity, its structure and design and the interrelationships that exist among all of its components. Change pervades modern society.
All organizations exist within a changing environment.
To survive and develop, organizations must be able or adapt to these changes and respond to opportunities for growth. Change is also an inherent aspect of management. Managers must understand and manage change if the organization is to thrive and grow. This course is about planned organization change and is designed to introduce the student to the field of organization development, its definition, goals, precedents, emergence, approaches, and current status. Decision-making and analyses of major management problems that arise in manpower planning, recruitment, selection, development, compensation, and appraisal of employees in various organizations.