Emphasis on business strategy and planning for small businesses. An investigation of business practice and the modern corporation as institutions. Ethical reasoning applied to analyze the scope, logic, and possible justifications for these institutions. A seminar on selected topics in management. This seminar examines the causes and consequences of industrial crises.
Participants learn basic concepts of crisis management and analyze recent cases of corporate crises.
Focus is on how human resource management practices can create competitive advantages for organizations. Topics include employment discrimination, managing diversity, managing the size of the workforce, job analysis, recruitment, selection, training, compensation, performance evaluation, union-management relations, career management, employer and employee rights, and expatriate management. Special topics in organizational behavior, organization theory and design, organization development, human resources management, and related topics. Seminar discussions of current theory and research. Organization design, goals and effectiveness, technology, organization change and development, decision making and leadership, power and authority, conflict management, agency theory, systems.