Topics include leadership, decision making, communication and conflict, work motivation, building effective teams, and organizational change and culture. Systematic approaches to human resources management in the context of organizational strategy, as constrained by legal and economic factors. Strategically aligned recruitment and screening systems, training and development, performance management, career management and reward systems. Basic microeconomic principles used by firms, including supply and demand, elasticities, costs, productivity, pricing, market structure and competitive implications of alternative market structures. Market failures and government intervention.
Public policy processes affecting business operations.
Basic microeconomic principles used by firms, including supply and demand, elasticities, costs, productivity, pricing, market structure and competitive implications of alternative market structures. Market failures and government intervention. Public policy processes affecting business operations. Relationship between national and international economic environments. Determinants of output, interest rates, prices and exchange rates.