MGT

253

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

This course focuses on developing an understanding of individual characteristics and interpersonal and organizational processes and how they influence organizational outcomes such as performance, creativity, citizenship behavior, stress, deviance and ethical behavior. Students will have an opportunity to develop their managerial/leadership style through experiential learning. Topics include: personality theory, learning, motivation, power and justice, conflict/negotiation skills, decision making, leadership and team dynamics, communication, and organizational culture. Prerequisite: MGT 100.

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

An analysis of the legal environment of business. Emphasis is on the basic structure of legal rights and obligations and their impact on business decisions. Prerequisites: Not open to Freshmen, preference to Junior and Senior business majors. Fitzpatrick, Kingsley/Three credits

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

INB 318 Asian Business Practices OR INB 320 European Business Practices

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

MKT 260 Quantitative Marketing Research OR MKT 260 Qualitative Marketing Research

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

This course examines the pivotal role of the Human Resource (HR) department in all types of organizations, especially medium to large enterprises. Increasingly HR has emerged as a key function in the overall strategy and success of organizations. HR functions that we will explore include organization and work design, workforce planning, job descriptions and evaluations, recruitment and selection, compensation and benefits, employee relations, safety and health, and corporate social responsibility. The course features a 10-week long HR simulation, whereby students in teams utilize course knowledge to make decisions for the effective running of a simulated company. Prerequisites: MGT 100, and Junior/Senior standing.

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

Provides a conceptual framework, analysis and discussion of the issues surrounding the business and society relationship at a macro level. Identifies and engages the major topics involved in developing a robust understanding of business in society. The course takes up a managerial perspective that investigates, identifies and integrates current and relevant practice, thought and topics. The managerial perspective is embedded in the course’s major themes of business ethics, sustainability and stakeholder management. Each of these three themes is essential today. Each theme builds upon its own perspective but is consistent with and overlaps the others. Taken together, they provide a lens through which to comprehend the challenges of the past and master frameworks for thinking about the current and future role of business in society. Prerequisites: MGT 100 and Junior/Senior standing. (Fall)

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

Leadership is the process of transforming organizations from what they are to what the leader would have them become. This course builds 258

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

The purpose of this seminar is to explore the issues and the challenges of understanding and managing an increasingly diverse workplace. The course focuses on preparing students to work and to manage in multicultural organizations. Special emphasis is placed on topics related to the impact of gender, race, and ethnicity, and other differences as they affect interpersonal relations and group behavior within a managerial organizational context. Prerequisite: MGT 100 or permission of instructor.

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

This course provides students with the concepts and tools necessary to manage service operations effectively. The strategic focus should also provide entrepreneurially inclined students with the foundation to start their own service business. The course explores the dimensions of successful service firms, prepares students for enlightened management, and suggests creative entrepreneurial opportunities. Beginning with the service encounter, service managers must blend marketing, technology, people, and information to achieve a distinctive competitive advantage. This course looks at service management from an integrated viewpoint. The material integrates marketing, strategy, technology, and organizational issues. Prerequisites: MGT 100, MKT 101.

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

This course covers the subject of corporate governance focusing on the roles of top management and the board of directors. Recent changes initiated by the Sarbanes Oxley Act are discussed. The importance of ethical leadership is stressed. The course also covers the subject of white collar crime, defining and discussing the major types of this criminal activity. The roles of top management and the board of directors in both the commission and the prevention of white collar crime are covered at length. Various resources such as recent cases of white collar crime, and websites such as those of the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center are incorporated into the course. Prerequisites: MGT 100 and ACC 125. (Fall)

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

The course is designed to provide a comprehensive and integrated introduction to the challenges of starting and managing a small business. In this course, students will build on an interdisciplinary foundation of accounting, management, and marketing to address the problems and decisions of starting, growing, and managing a small business. Prerequisites: MGT 100, MKT 101, ACC 125, ACC 126.

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

How do organizations become better innovators? How do managers foster a culture of innovation within teams and organizations? This course will help students understand the relationship between creativity and innovation, and how individuals, teams, and organizations can increase their capacity for innovative thinking and creativity. Using case studies, students will explore and analyze innovation of various organizations and industries. Students will be introduced to product, process, and business model innovation and experience using tools and approaches such as brainstorming, design thinking, how-why laddering, and various mapping techniques. Prerequisites: MGT 100, MGT 102, MKT 101.

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

This course examines the subject of fraud from both management and accounting perspectives. Utilizing a variety of techniques including text, lecture, case studies, and occasional training videos, the course seeks to familiarize students with the conditions which facilitate fraud, the profile of the fraud perpetrator, common types of fraud, and methods of prevention, detection, and resolution. Numerous historical cases of fraud are examined. Prerequisites: ACC 125, ACC 126, MGT100.

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has created significant changes in organizations, including the role of the manager. Recent advancements in AI technology have resulted in substantial changes in managerial processes, resulting in increasing importance of the role of AI in organizations. AI is being used in routine tasks and in supporting managers in core managerial functions. The current deployment rate of AI technology in organizations is a call to not only understand the technology and how it is being used in organizations but to critically examine its implications on individuals’ role in organizations and the society. Therefore, this course is designed to provide management students with foundational knowledge and understanding of AI technology within organizations.

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

This course explores the emerging and rapidly developing business field of social entrepreneurship, both as an individual driving change to solve social problems, as well as the social enterprises that may emerge. These organizations are highly regarded for being mission driven as a significant focus of their business is aimed at solving social problems, while also achieving financial sustainability. Throughout the course students will gain in-depth insights into how these organizations achieve dual objectives of economic and social value. We will explore social ventures across a wide variety of sectors, such as environmental, energy, health, education, micro finance, and other areas. Social enterprises look to fill the void at the nexus of government, private, and non-profit enterprises that have not sustainably addressed social problems. Throughout the course students will encounter issues related to inequities in gender, race, ethnicity, and culture, which all play a role in the establishment and effectiveness of the social enterprise. A key outcome of the course will be social problem identification and assessment, and the development of a social venture business plan. Prerequisites: MGT 100, MKT 101, ACC 125.

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

INB 318 Asian Business Practices OR INB 320 European Business Practices MINOR IN SPORT MANAGEMENT (7) REQUIRED COURSES (5)

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

The culture of winning reflects a set of longstanding American values. During contemporary times, issues in sport such as performance enhancing drugs, cheating, and violence have become important topics for sport managers. This course examines the professional and ethical responsibility of the sport manager, as well as ethical issues confronted by sport managers. Students will be asked to not only identify these issues within the sport industry environment, but also to analyze, discuss, and debate the sport manager’s professional and ethical responsibility in addressing these issues through ethical decision making. Students will also explore principle-centered leadership in sport. Prerequisite: MGT 342.

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu

ELECTIVES (3)

Subject

MGT

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

www.assumption.edu