18 courses with the subject STMG, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
STMG 610Ethical and Legal Perspectives in Business3
Develops skills for inquiry into the business environment from a legal and ethical perspective. Explores the relationships between the ethical perspectives and the modern business environment. Relevant topics include contracts, commercial law, business organizations, employment law, bankruptcy, negligence and strict liability concepts. The goal of the course will be to examine difficult and complex problems and to be familiar with the dynamics of ethical business practices.
STMG 611Vocational, Ethical, and Professional Perspectives for Ministry Leaders3
This course, similar in some respects to Ethical and Legal Perspectives in Business, provides ministry leaders tools to define their own vocation for this unique role, the opportunities to be more fully formed and developed within that vocation, and the ethical and professional boundaries within which ministry leaders must operate within an increasingly complex organizational and cultural context.
Introduces the key concepts, tools, and principles of strategy formulation and competitive advantage. It reviews managerial decisions and actions that affect the performance and survival of business enterprises. The course takes a general management perspective that views the business as a whole and examines policies in each functional area as they are integrated into an overall competitive strategy. Additionally, this course will provide the student with a set of strategy and management frameworks that firms utilize when assessing how to implement AI in their own organizations, how to use AI as a competitive tool in the marketplace, and how to interact with government regulators and other stakeholders.
Highlights how global marketing can reach and impact customers around the globe. Examines how global marketing concepts support marketing decision making through artificial intelligence. Students will learn the importance of marketing strategies and plans that include advertising, social media marketing, digital marketing and digital robotic technologies. Upon completion of this course students will understand how marketing research can affect global marketing decision making and strategic plans.
STMG 632Communication Strategies for Ministry Leaders
This course provides ministry leaders with tools to create and lead effective strategies of external and internal communication in the unique context of a ministry organization, where public communication is often considered a core function of organizational leaders. This course supports a strategic assessment of the place of one’s ministry within one’s community and the means of communicating that mission to stakeholders, both external and internal.
Discusses the fundamental techniques of data analysis, emphasizing complex and/or large data sets. Students learn to gather, analyze, and interpret data to drive strategic and operational success in technology-based companies. Upon completion of this course students will have the ability to apply data and analytic principles to real-world problems and understand the data analytics lifecycle from problem definition to solution development.
STMG 641Organizational Assessment for Ministry Leaders3
This course provides ministry leaders with tools to do comprehensive, multi-directional assessments of one’s own ministry organization or others, as well as the skills to assess or create specific programs within those organizations as a result. It provides students with guidance regarding the kind of leadership most needed in different organizational contexts and the opportunity to assess their own preferred organizational settings.
Students will learn the components of supply chain management while examining the importance of artificial intelligence. This course discusses the importance of managing operations efficiently and effectively through LEAN Manufacturing and Six Sigma. Supply Chain management looks to provide students with tools to manage highly effective operations divisions while maintaining quality management oversight and driving performance metrics.
STMG 651Change, Conflict and Governance for Ministry Leaders3
This course provides ministry leaders tools by which to lead strategic change initiatives within an organization and to navigate the creative conflicts that often arise from such. It also addresses the role of governing bodies in ministry organizations and the considerations that require an ongoing distinction between management and government, management and leadership, and leadership and followership.
STMG 661Human Resources for Healthcare Leadership3
Explores the strategic role of human resources in healthcare organizations. Focus is on workforce management, employee relations and legal compliance within the healthcare industry. Additionally, it will develop skills for an understanding of how human resource decisions contribute to organizational effectiveness and a firm’s competitive advantage.
Within this course, students will learn how to analyze financial documents and information for evaluating companies within a real-world perspective. This course will also cover an analysis of operating budgets, an introduction to capital budgeting, capital structure analysis, and financial statement analysis. Students will understand the importance of evaluating short- and long-term financial strategies.
Healthcare Finance equips healthcare leaders with the ability to understand the application of financial theories, concepts, and models to health services systems with an emphasis on the role of financial principles and analysis to decision-making. It reviews the art of negotiation that promotes the integration of finance and managed care structures, such as health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred provider organizations (PPOs), and independent practice associations (IPAs).
Examines strategies used to effectively complete projects through people and stakeholder groups and the role of the project manager as leader in the agile and predictive approaches. Students will develop strategies to address and manage the project team's expectations and other stakeholder groups.
Discusses the application of economic theory to practice managing new businesses by combining elements of strategy, marketing, and entrepreneurial finance courses. Includes an examination of both strategic decisions of entrepreneurs (pricing, advertising, deterring entry) and the practical issues (funding, business plans, patents).
This course examines sources of healthcare innovation, the many different types of healthcare customers (patients, doctors, hospitals, insurers, regulators), and the “investing” community. The course will also review the challenges of healthcare entrepreneurship. Page 154
Students must complete a pre-approved original project focusing on a specific problem within an organization. The capstone project involves identifying and investigating a problem or innovation, researching, and identifying “best practices” and other strategies and innovations, preferably in their current or intended area of practice. The capstone is an integrative project that draws on core learning outcomes of the program. Page 155
