Management
MANA 5300 (3-3-0) Career and Professional Development
This course equips students with knowledge and tools to enter and/or advance their career. The course begins with personal assessment instruments to help students understand the unique way they have been created and the implications of this on their current and future vocational choices. Students will identify potential career pathways and establish a plan for advancement in their chosen career. In addition, students will strengthen their professional brand through resume writing, interview skills, and enhancing their professional network. Additional fee may be required.
Requisites: None.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
MANA 5302 (3-3-0) Quantitative Analysis and Modeling for Decision-Making
Students will utilize real-life case studies in gaining practical application of statistical methodologies including graphic and quantitative tools for decision analysis. Modeling and graphics applications used include linear programming and decision trees using Excel Solver and includes text boxes, spreadsheet layout and design, formulas, functions, and charts of various types. Models include linear programming, probability distributions, decision trees, present value, expected value of information, time series forecasting, and multiple linear regression. Emphasis is on effective articulation and presentation of reasoning and conclusions. Students will learn how to conduct sensitivity analysis using Solver and will conduct statistical methodologies using the Analysis Tool Pack in Excel. Extensive use of Excel, the Excel Data Analysis Tool Pack and Excel Solver should be expected. Basic computer skills (MS Windows, Word, and Excel) are assumed.
Requisites: BUAD 5303 recommended.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer, Online.
MANA 5303 (3-3-0) Technology, Innovation, and the Entrepreneurial Mindset
This course explores the critical role and impact of innovation on markets, industries, and companies. Students will develop the entrepreneurial mindset that enables them to recognize, evaluate, and act on discontinuous opportunities that solve market problems. Further, they will gain a working knowledge of recent technologies that are transforming the way companies and society operate such as cloud computing, IoT, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and extended reality (XR), grounded in an ethical and biblical worldview.
Requisites: BUAD 5303 recommended.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
MANA 5310 (3-3-0) Ethical Leadership
This course explores the definitions and practice of leadership through the lens of biblical worldview in light of the ethical issues and dilemmas faced by today's leaders. Students will examine ethical philosophies and leadership theories to develop a framework for practicing ethical leadership.
Requisites: BUAD 5303 recommended.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer, Online.
MANA 5311 (3-3-0) Global Initiatives in Management
(MANA 4340)
Introduction to basic concepts and practices in international business, with the main emphasis in operational and management problems of multinational corporations. Topics to be covered include the nature and characteristics of international business, strategy and structure of multinational corporations, effects of multinational corporations on the U.S. economy, and career issues in international business. This 5000-level course is cross-listed with a 4000-level course and includes specific graduate course requirements which reflect appropriate deeper learning experiences and rigor in the higher-level course.
Requisites: MANA 3301.
Offered: Fall, Online.
MANA 5321 (3-3-0) Christian Perspectives in Management
(MANA 4321)
Management principles taught from the standpoint of a Christian world view. The course is specifically designed to provide the student with an effective decision-making framework for the business world. This 5000-level course is cross-listed with a 4000-level course and includes specific graduate course requirements which reflect appropriate deeper learning experiences and rigor in the higher-level course.
Requisites: None; MANA 3301 recommended.
Offered: Periodically.
MANA 5333 (3-3-0) Operations and Quality Management
(MANA 4301, SCM 5333)
The development of model-based systems used by management to plan, organize, implement, and continuously improve operations will be discussed. Quality and process reengineering tools will be examined and utilized by class members in a project format. This 5000-level course is cross-listed with a 4000-level course and includes specific graduate course requirements which reflect appropriate deeper learning experiences and rigor in the higher-level course.
Requisites: None.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer, Online.
MANA 6301 (3-3-0) Employment Law
Managers must stay current on the ethical and legal aspects of labor/management relations. Areas of study in this course will include history and theory, present effects and impact, litigation and procedure, and reasonable accommodation for employees in a variety of discriminatory issues.
Requisites: None.
Offered: Spring, Online.
MANA 6305 (3-3-0) Talent Acquisition and Development
This course will equip business leaders to compete for top-quality talent in the business world, focusing on staffing models and strategy, planning, job analysis, internal and external recruitment processes, staffing measurements, staffing system management, and retention management. Special attention will be paid to the STAR framework for talent acquisition. Additional topics will include employment contracts, negotiable offers, job offers, orientation, and socialization associated with performance.
Requisites: None.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer, Online.
MANA 6306 (3-3-0) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace
Students will examine diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices from theoretical and practical perspectives and identify opportunities for their application within a workplace setting. Key theories and concepts that will be addressed include unconscious or implicit bias, mindset theory, psychological safety, human motivation, emotional intelligence, cross-cultural awareness, leadership and power, and the ethical aspects of DEI. Finally, students will review the role of human resources (HR) as both advocate and gatekeeper for DEI programs, relative to the overall business strategy.
Requisite: None.
Offered: Fall, Online.
MANA 6307 (3-3-0) Managing Risk
(PROJ 6302, SCM 6330)
This course will equip business leaders with the tools to analyze and mitigate potential risks, with a focus on proper identification, assessment, response, mitigation, and monitoring. Special attention will be paid to risk avoidance, risk acceptance, risk reduction, and risk sharing. Additional topics will include ethical behavior and the social implications of risk management.
Requisites: BUAD 5303 recommended.
Offered: Fall, Summer.
MANA 6314 (3-3-0) Organizational Change and Development
This course builds critical skills and competencies that enable leaders to achieve the mission and vision of their organizations. Topics include organizational analysis, gap analysis, and change models and processes. Study will include organizational behavior components influencing the development of the organization’s human resources and the impact that individual groups and structures have on behavior within the organization.
Requisites: None.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer, Online.
MANA 6320 (3-3-0) Business Ethics
(ACCT 6320)
The course provides an in-depth study of ethical theory. An analysis of the relationship of laws, ethics, morals, and standards within the Christian framework is explored. Students will see ethical theory applied to numerous case studies. Students will also apply theories to current-day ethical dilemmas to practice ethical problem-solving.
Requisites: None.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer, Online.
MANA 6323 (3-3-0) Human Resource Strategy (S-L)
This course introduces a strategic management approach to human resource management. A brief overview of behavioral science perspectives on managing people and how to influence employee effectiveness is presented. Methods on how to use knowledge of environmental forces, such as work setting, technological change, globalization, government regulations and union requirements that influence performance will be discussed. Equal Employee Opportunity, legal aspects, and influence of the legal environment to human resource management is evaluated. The global enterprise and its effect on global human resource management and interdependence of nations that foster international interest will be presented. Human resource acquisition, rewards, employee training, development, and career planning are examined. Labor-management relations, collective bargaining, and organizational safety and health sections are revised. This course contains a field-based service-learning component.
Requisites: None.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer, Online.
MANA 6330 (3-3-0) Leadership Development
This course is designed to develop mid-level and experienced leadership competencies within the organization. Students will gain a broader understanding of core business functions that increase decision-making skills, drive change, innovation, and growth in multicultural work environments. Students will improve cross-functional skills and adapt influence strategies that lead high-performing global teams. Students will be equipped with strategies to build the next generation of leaders for the organization.
Requisites: None.
Offered: Spring, Online.
MANA 6331 (3-3-0) Leadership Coaching and Counseling
This course is designed to develop coaching models and competencies that differentiate thinking that will change behavior, identify and diagnose work performance problems, illustrate leadership skills and techniques that focus on solutions, not problems, develop approaches for effective conversations, customize coaching styles for different personalities, examine coaching steps to achieve effective intervention, reduce turnover and employee retention, increase work satisfaction, and present feedback to stretch/challenge employees that drive greater performance. Students will gain an understanding of redirecting critical approaches to achieving unified goals. Coaching and counseling models identify systematic approaches to gaining commitment, focus, and change to achieve peak performance.
Requisites: None.
Offered: Spring, Online.
MANA 6340 (3-3-0) Workforce Analytics
HR leaders are called on to help businesses gain a competitive advantage through people. The use of analytics is changing the HR landscape and modern HR leaders are able to use workforce analytics to provide the framework for making evidence-based decisions. Workforce Analytics examines the methodology of employee-related data-driven decisions, as well as software tools for data visualization within the HR industry.
Requisites: BUAD 5303 recommended.
Offered: Fall, Spring.
MANA 6341 (3-3-0) Strategic Management Decisions (S-L)
To succeed in the future, leaders must develop the resources and capabilities needed to gain and sustain a competitive advantage in both traditional and emerging markets. The strategic choices organizational leaders make constitute the essence of their strategy and these include competitive strategies, diversification strategies, and cooperative strategies. This synthesis course introduces the concept of strategic management through case analysis, team projects, and business simulation. It considers the direction and goals of an organization, environmental scanning and internal assessments, strategy formation, strategic leadership, and the implementation of strategies that will achieve exceptional performance and are aligned with the organization's mission. This course contains a field-based service-learning component.
Requisites: Course can only be taken in the last core semester in the program.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer, Online.
MANA 6343 (3-3-0) Total Rewards
Administration of compensation systems in public and private organizations; concepts, models and practices related to wage and salary levels and structure; perceived equity, individual appraisal/rewards, performance and satisfaction; and benefits will be examined. Techniques and areas explored will include job analysis, job description, job evaluation, internal work structure, market definitions, policy lines, pay structure, incentive programs, incentive guidelines, planning, budgeting, communicating, and evaluating.
Requisites: None.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer, Online.
MANA 6358 (3-3-0) Business Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
This course develops sales skills for managers as well as useful negotiation and conflict resolution strategies. Critical skills for persuasive communication will be developed and technology in the fields of sales and negotiations will be explored.
Requisites: None.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
MANA 6360 (3-3-0) Managerial Strategy and Implementation (S-L)
This is an integrative course designed to provide students the opportunity to strategically apply the learning they have gained in previous coursework to organizational management Students will learn how to implement leadership, communication, change, teamwork, ethics, organizational behavior, and human resources’ skills from their previous classes to uncover and resolve organizational problems. This is the capstone course for the MA in Management. Students will apply a service-learning component by implementing the learning in an organization of their choice. This course contains a field-based service-learning component.
Requisites: May be taken only in a student's last semester in the program.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Online.
MANA 6371 (3-3-0) Motivating and Vision-Casting
This course focuses on motivating individuals and teams. Students will gain a better understanding of their leadership style for the purpose of motivating others. This course will take a deep look at how organizations communicate to their internal and external stakeholders while building each student's oral and written communication capabilities for business audiences.
Requisites: None.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.
MANA 6372 (3-3-0) Managing Organizations and Teams (S-L)
This course takes a macro organization perspective to examining management from the perspective of interactions among complex systems. Students will explore the interconnectedness of systems and how they influence human behavior. Learners will examine group processes and organizational design. This course contains a field-based service-learning component.
Requisites: None.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.