Examine the effects of cost, price, and profit on management decision-making, and learn about the tools and methods managers use to make informed business decisions.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 5.3
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Learn how to apply statistical information and quantitative methods to the workplace by examining techniques for gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data that is applicable to many fields, from anthropology to hedge fund management.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 4.0
Learn how to apply statistical information and quantitative methods to the workplace. Examine techniques for gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data applicable to many fields, from anthropology to hedge fund management.
Continuing Education Units: 5.3
Learn about the laws that business managers must follow to protect their consumers, employees, and overall operations. Explore conflict management strategies and legal issues, such as torts, contracts, property law, intellectual property, and employment law.
Continuing Education Units: 4.2
Learn about the components of business information systems, with an emphasis on data transmission, management information software, and the ways that businesses manage data.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 5.7
Learn the fundamentals of modern business management as you explore how business management practices evolved from the rise of large corporations in the late 1800s to today.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 7.3
Learn the fundamentals of modern business management as you explore how business management practices evolved from the rise of large corporations in the late 1800s to today.
Continuing Education Units: 7.7
Learn how to manage business processes to produce the products and services your customers need. Topics include product design, supply chain management, quality, inventory, and planning.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 3.8
Learn how to manage business processes to produce the products and services your customers need. Topics include product design, supply chain management, quality, inventory, and planning.
Continuing Education Units: 5.4
Examine business practices and laws that help create a better and more effective working environment, including recruitment, training, performance measurement, compensation, safety, and labor relations.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 2.4
Learn how to plan and operate a small business as a manager or entrepreneur by writing a business plan, launching a new venture, identifying market opportunities, creating a marketing plan, and financing your business.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 9.8
Learn effective management and leadership techniques, with topics including leadership theory, change management, decision making, and the distinction between leadership and management.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 3.7
Explore the steps and processes businesses follow to complete tasks and meet deadlines by focusing on the role project managers play in initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 5.2
Perfect your negotiation and conflict resolution skills to build and maintain healthy business relationships by examining the concepts, processes, strategies, and ethical issues related to negotiation and conflict resolution.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 2.4
Incorporate what you've learned from all of our core business courses in this capstone course, which covers strategic management, identifying goals, formulating winning strategies, and implementing successful business techniques.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 4.5
Learn effective leadership techniques, with topics including leadership theory, change management, decision-making, and the distinction between leadership and management.
Category: Business Administration
Course Introduction:
All managers are leaders. All leaders are managers. Which of these statements is true? Both. The words are often confused because people often think that both leaders and managers are in charge of a specific task or group of people. While there are many differences between the two on a task-by-task basis, generally, what they do is largely the same. For example, both may handle data, including its acquisition, analysis, and dissemination. Or consider that they both may have no formal power yet take a lot of responsibility for getting things done. Many of history's greatest leaders only had power earned from their peers instead of power granted by another individual or group. Think of America's founding fathers, like Thomas Jefferson, who went against the British government to draft the Declaration of Independence. The situation created the team, and the recognized leaders emerged. All of these similarities will be explored in this course.
Course Units:
- Unit 1: Introduction
- Unit 2: Leadership Theory
- Unit 3: Change Management and Decision-Making
- Unit 4: Leading without Formal Authority
- Unit 5: Organizational Culture
- Unit 6: Managing Groups and Teams
Course Learning Objectives:
- Distinguish the concept of leadership from the concept of management;
- Compare and contrast the major theories of leadership;
- Examine how the decision-making process and change management are related;
- Assess the skills necessary to exert power and influence in a non-authoritative leadership role;
- Develop an effective culture given an organization's goals; and
- Evaluate the qualities necessary to effectively manage or lead in a team/group environment.
Continuing Education Units: 7.1
This graduate-level course explores the various financial decisions made in both personal and business contexts, including credit card interest rates, home mortgages, investment allocation, and creating shareholder value. The course emphasizes the importance of a thorough understanding of financial principles and theories and their practical application in day-to-day operations for effective decision making.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 5.5
This graduate-level course covers the key components of marketing and the development of marketing strategies. A strategic approach will be emphasized throughout this course, challenging students to think critically and make decisions like a marketing manager or upper-level executive. Topics include the strategic planning process, analysis of the external environment, examination of the marketing mix, and creation of a strategic marketing plan aligned with the overall goals of the organization.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 4.5
Focus on people at the individual and group levels by managing diverse teams within an organizational culture. Learn to communicate well to lead teams in a dynamic, volatile, and uncertain business environment by incorporating organizational design and human resource management principles.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 6.6
In this graduate-level course, learn how to manage a project from beginning to end by focusing on project integration management across the PMI ten knowledge areas: project integration, scope, schedule, cost, human resource, communication, stakeholder, quality, risk, and procurement management.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 4.4
In this graduate-level course, you will learn how to manage business operations and supply chains, including setting production goals and strategies, designing and improving production processes, conducting workflow analyses, and analyzing physical facilities.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 9.6
Learn graduate-level concepts related to business strategy development and implementation, including considerations for ethics when making business strategy decisions, the internal and external constraints when developing strategy, measurement tools, and models related to strategy formulation, and implementation within a global and ethical context.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 6.9
This graduate-level course will teach you how data management, database systems, and database applications function in the world of business by exploring technical information and implementation issues relevant to organizational data management.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 4.4
Examine the process of creating brand equity and consumer loyalty by understanding both the theoretical and working knowledge of the roles brands and brand management play in helping today's organizations achieve their marketing and corporate goals.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 5.1
Learn the importance of the sales function for the survival and growth of the organization.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 2.9
Review important aspects of conflict management and negotiations, including creating positive outcomes for stakeholders, assisting employees with negotiation, better communication, mediation, collective bargaining, and negotiations within and outside the organization.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 3.4
Master the components of management information systems with an emphasis on social media management, management information software, the global landscape, and enhancing decision-making.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 3.8
Explore concepts and strategies for change management and implementation – by learning how to lead yourself first, you can effectively lead others and organizations.
Category: Business Administration
Continuing Education Units: 3.5
Explore hardware/software components, assembly language, and the functional architecture and design of computers, with a focus on topics like instruction sets, processor arithmetic and control, Von Neumann architecture, pipelining, memory management, storage, and input/output.
Category: Computer Science
Continuing Education Units: 4.8
Learn how to apply an engineering approach to computer software development by focusing on software principles, lifecycle models, requirements and specifications, architecture and conceptual model design, detailed design, implementation, validation and verification, quality assurance, configuration control, project management, tools, and environments.
Category: Computer Science
Continuing Education Units: 3.6
Examine how operating systems and design have evolved as changes in hardware and software led to contemporary operating systems. Topics include basic OS concepts, methods of OS design and construction, process coordination, management, and algorithms for CPU scheduling, memory, and general resource allocation.
Category: Computer Science
Continuing Education Units: 12.0
Learn about database architecture and implementation by exploring Structured Query Language (SQL), including topics like file structures and access methods; database modeling, design, and user interface; the components of database management systems; and information storage and retrieval.
Category: Computer Science
Continuing Education Units: 4.2
Learn the importance of setting goals, delegating tasks, and prioritizing your work to help you manage your time and enhance workplace productivity.
Category: Writing and Soft Skills
Continuing Education Units: 1.1
Explore the basics of financial literacy, personal money management, financial planning, and investment strategies. Applications in personal finance include creating financial goals, budgeting and saving, consumer credit, loans and debt, personal bankruptcy, insurance, investment and retirement, mutual funds, the stock market, taxes, fraud, and sustainability.
Category: Writing and Soft Skills
Continuing Education Units: 2.2
Learn management fundamentals and why managers are necessary in business today by discussing the purpose of management and a manager's role, responsibilities, and functions.
Category: Business and Communication
Course Introduction:
In this course, we will explore the basic concept of management. We will investigate what management is and the role managers play in the fulfillment of an organization's objectives. In human society, there has always been a need for some degree of management in order to organize the efforts of individuals for the common (and individual) good. Even in very primitive times, gathering food, protecting against predators, and caring for the young required humans to coordinate and organize in order to achieve common goals.
Course Units:
- Unit 1: What is Management?
- Unit 2: The Role of Managers: What Do Managers Do?
- Unit 3: The Personal Side of Management
Course Learning Objectives:
- Define the function of managers;
- Discuss and analyze the purpose of management.
Continuing Education Units: 1.3
Explore management by investigating what management is and the role managers play in fulfilling an organization's objectives.
Continuing Education Units: 1.3
Learn the fundamentals of modern business management as you explore how business management practices evolved from the rise of large corporations in the late 1800s to today by considering the dependence of societies and economies on each other and by looking at how business owners begin their own international businesses.
Category: Business and Communication
Course Introduction:
The more complex an organization and its operations, the more active a role management plays. Successful management imposes a degree of order and discipline so that work can be accomplished efficiently, regardless of the size of the organization, how many countries it operates in, or how much of its work is performed virtually.
In this course, you will explore various theories of management throughout history. Learn about early management principles, including Frederick Winslow Taylor's scientific management theory widely practiced in the industrial age of the 20th century, and the shift to more contemporary, 21st-century approaches to management, which tend to be better-suited to knowledge-based industries. Finally, you will examine management from a global perspective.
Course Units:
- Unit 1: A History of Management Theory
- Unit 2: The Role of Social Networking in the 21st Century
- Unit 3: Historical and Contemporary Theories of Management
- Unit 4: Scientific Management Theory
- Unit 5: A Modern Look at Management
- Unit 6: The Global Environment
- Unit 7: Cultural, Economic, and Legal Factors
Course Learning Objectives:
- Describe the history of management theory to see how various theories have developed over time to the present day;
- Describe the effect of globalization on operating, growing, and managing a business; and
- Analyze the impact of globalization on management.
Continuing Education Units: 1.2
Explore historical theories of management, the effect of globalization on management, and how firms conduct international business.
Continuing Education Units: 1.2
Learn the fundamentals of modern business management as you explore how business management practices evolved from the rise of large corporations in the late 1800s to today.
Category: Business and Communication
Course Introduction:
In this course, you will look at organizational culture and how it provides a company with its own workplace climate and personality. Organizational culture includes attitudes, values, and work styles, which, when managed properly, can lead to a highly productive workforce.
A diverse workforce brings together people from different backgrounds. Each individual brings their own experiences and expertise to the table. Blending these backgrounds can enhance productivity by allowing for the free flow of new ideas and creativity. This unit will explore the importance of a diverse workforce and how managers can make the most of their employees' individual knowledge and approaches to reach corporate goals.
Management sets the tone for a corporate climate and sets the standard for personal behavior. In this course, you will also learn about the importance of ethics – ""doing what is right"" or ""doing the right thing"". In light of recent major business scandals borne out of unethical behavior, almost all business schools have devoted aspects of their curricula to the study of ethics. To understand how to apply ethics to different circumstances, you must understand how ethics can vary based on differences in society, culture, and politics. There are many different philosophies purporting to explain how to apply ethics to decision-making, but none of them are absolute. However, understanding these various philosophies can help you reach workplace decisions that are more ethically grounded.
This unit will conclude with an exploration of business ethics in the modern-day workplace environment. An organization and its managers have duties, including legal and ethical responsibilities, that they must uphold as part of their service to their stakeholders, including investors, vendors, employees, and the communities in which the organization operates.
Course Units:
- Unit 1: Corporate Culture
- Unit 2: How Managers Form and Maintain Organizational Cultures
- Unit 3: Building Organizational Culture in a New Business Venture
- Unit 4: Diversity
- Unit 5: Business and Managerial Ethics 101
- Unit 6: Understanding Corporate Social Responsibility
- Unit 7: What Is Environmentalism?
- Unit 8: Responsibilities to Stakeholders
- Unit 9: Ethical Issues and Considerations
Course Learning Objectives:
- Explain the changing nature of a diverse workforce and how it can enhance the work environment;
- Apply the essential concepts of ethical practices in business;
- Explain the importance of corporate culture in the business environment; and
- Describe the role that cultural factors play in the workplace.
Continuing Education Units: 1.9
Learn the fundamentals of modern business management as you explore how business management practices evolved from the rise of large corporations in the late 1800s to today.
Category: Business and Communication
Course Introduction:
Throughout this course, we define managers as people who work with and through other people to accomplish the goals of an organization. One important managerial function we have not yet touched upon is motivation, or the ability to persuade and inspire others to commit to an organization and its goals. A good leader must be a good manager if they wish to get a lot accomplished. To get work done, managers must often foster collaboration between employees so that individuals with different skills from different parts of a company can successfully contribute to projects. The concept of collaboration has evolved into the practice of creating teams comprising specific individuals with complementary skills who gather around a common purpose. This purpose might include accomplishing a specific task, addressing a particular problem, revising an internal company process, etc.
The term team is used so frequently today that the meaning of this concept is often diluted. Still, contemporary companies and organizations rely on the efforts of different kinds of teams. Often, an organization will pull together teams with members scattered over multiple locations – even multiple countries – to bring together the skills and competencies needed to address a significant task. One of the key roles of any manager is to establish a team's goals and purposes and select appropriate team members. From there, the team will more or less independently work to accomplish its purpose under the supervision of a leader, who must organize and manage the team effectively.
What does a successful team look like? Would you be surprised to know that the best teams actually experience conflicts? In fact, conflict can be a productive force capable of generating new ideas and multiple options for consideration. The key is to avoid letting professional conflict spill over into personal relationships, a difficult task without careful study and practice. In this unit, you will look at the different stages of group development to learn how to create a successful team and avoid the common pitfalls of working with a team.
Course Units:
- Unit 1: Management vs. Leadership
- Unit 2: Management's Power and Influence
- Unit 3: Teams
- Unit 4: Identifying the Characteristics of a Team
- Unit 5: Team Management
- Unit 6: Team-Building
- Unit 7: Managing Team Conflict
Course Learning Objectives:
- Analyze the key elements of leadership skills, power, and politics;
- Apply the essential principles of quality leadership; and
- Discuss the stages of team development and the dynamics of managing teams.
Continuing Education Units: 0.9
Explore topics including the leadership and management skills necessary in the different stages of group development, how to create an effective team, and how to harness a team's strengths.
Continuing Education Units: 0.7
Explore the important aspects of employee job satisfaction and well-being, including conflict management and resolution.
Category: Business and Communication
Continuing Education Units: 0.5
Explore the broad field of Human Resource Management and learn about the importance of strategic employee recruitment, selection, and retention.
Category: Business and Communication
Continuing Education Units: 1.8
Explore the planning functions of managers, including management strategy frameworks, components of business strategy, and setting and achieving goals and objectives.
Category: Business and Communication
Continuing Education Units: 0.5
Explore organizational structures and how traditional management practices are making way for more modern approaches.
Category: Business and Communication
Continuing Education Units: 0.4
Explore how raw materials are selected, obtained, and then distributed to the customer as a finished product – the supply chain. Learn how every step in the process can be affected by changes in distribution, resource availability, and other external factors.
Category: Business and Communication
Continuing Education Units: 0.3