A management course designed to integrate all business functions at a small business level. Study of the development and management of a business plan appropriate to the objectives and resources of the individual entrepreneur. This course deals with the management of ongoing enterprises. A computer software package is utilized to develop various cases and problems found in the text. 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.