45 courses with the subject MGMT, 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.
MGMT 101Principles of Management3
An introduction to the classic writings, writers, and principles of management, focusing on the characteristics of managers, history of management, properties of organizations, power and authority, decision-making, strategic management, motivation, and leadership. Required for all students in the Business Administration Department. Fall, Spring.
An overview of contemporary concepts, tools, and techniques being applied in the production and operations functions of today’s world-class organizations. Topics include total quality management principles; product and service design strategies; process design strategies; facility location and layout methodologies; people and work systems concepts; aggregate planning approaches; just-in-time inventory, manufacturing, and purchasing policies; and material requirements planning techniques. Fall, Spring.
(same as ECON 203) (3 credits) A study of public policy issues affecting labor and management, the institutions associated most closely with industrial relations, and the process of collective bargaining. Fall, Summer.
MGMT 210The Macro-View of the United States Healthcare System3
This broad-based introduction the United States healthcare system course is intended to provide the knowledge concerning the nature and structure of the American healthcare system, including its various financing vehicles, health care delivery systems, and quality control mechanisms. Students are expected to gain an understanding of the various competing goals, priorities, and perspectives of the many participants or stakeholders in the health care arena, including financing entities, regulators, healthcare professionals, and patients. Students should be able to articulate arguments from the perspective of the various participants or stakeholders, and should be prepared to participate in informed public policy discussions regarding the development and regulation of the healthcare delivery system in the future. An examination of alternative healthcare systems from other nations will also be incorporated into this general introduction to the US Healthcare System course.
This course enables students to develop an understanding of how to plan, organize and execute professional events. This course exposes students to theories and styles of effective event management techniques. The course requires students to design, develop, and carry out a minimum of two events while applying event planning strategies learned in the classroom. The events will be delivered virtually to outside community participants and regional attendees. Students will apply knowledge from the semester and explain how these large-scale events were planned, managed and executed. The course content will be applicable to business degrees in widening the management capabilities and knowledge of the students, which will equip them with a broader and more desirable skill set.
A leadership-oriented seminar for business students and others interested in executive leadership and management careers. The interactive speakers’ series is designed to enable students to gain valuable insights into executive leadership and management practice by hearing firsthand from business practitioners and experts. Small group discussions will also be used to stimulate thought and further reflections. Students will acquire insights on what they will need to know, be able to do, and value as they enter the business world or other chosen careers.
This course focuses on various aspects of leadership including the study, theory, and practices of leadership. The course will enable students to understand themselves as leaders in relationship to various leadership theories and practices. Through readings, discussions, case studies, leadership surveys, and other resources and assignments, students will better understand themselves, their leadership skills and traits, and the role of leadership within an organization.
Supply chain management is the process by which organizations get us the products we consume, and companies need talented employees to help optimize their supply chain. This course will teach you how to use forecasting techniques to match supply and demand, and how to develop logistics networks that help minimize costs and deliver top customer service. This course is offered online through a consortium of accredited colleges and universities. Instruction is provided by faculty employed by partner institutions within the consortium, with technology and administrative support provided by Rize Education. Oversight of courses offered through the consortium are reviewed and approved by Saint Francis University. Students register through and receive academic credit from Saint Francis University.
This course will teach you how businesses manage this increasing complexity behind the scenes through efficient sourcing of suppliers and operations. You will have the opportunity to apply this knowledge by conducting a real-world case study of a product of your choosing. This course is offered online through a consortium of accredited colleges and universities. Instruction is provided by faculty employed by partner institutions within the consortium, with technology and administrative support provided by Rize Education. Oversight of courses offered through the consortium are reviewed and approved by Saint Francis University. Students register through and receive academic credit from Saint Francis University.
Principles of life, fire, and casualty insurance. Importance of risk in personal and business affairs; methods of meeting risk; insurable risk through insurance, and risk and public policy. As needed.
MGMT 307Great Britain and the European Union in the Global Economy3
This international business-themed course explores international business concepts and issues through the lens of Great Britain’s role in both the European Union and the global economy. The course employs both traditional face-to-face instruction, a web-based, on-line component, and a weeklong field trip to London during Spring Break.
MGMT 313Legal and Policy Issues Facing Healthcare Managers3
This course examines the law and legal processes that affect healthcare managers and their institutions. The course presents an overview of legal principles, such as torts, contracts, and liability, which are relevant to healthcare managers and those who employ them. This course also explores the interconnections among ethics, laws, and health care policy by examining classic legal-medical ethics cases; legal rules and ethical principles; controversial issues, such as access to health care, beginning of life issues, patients’ rights, end-of-life issues, disorders of consciousness, medical malpractice, organ transplantation , and employee relations. Thus, the course covers ethics, the regulation of healthcare entities, various types of legal obligations, and medical malpractice law as applied to health professionals and healthcare managers.
This introductory course on sports management provides an overview of the field of sports management and the sports industry. The course focuses on applying management principles within the structure of the sports industry and explores both contemporary issues and future considerations for organizations within the sports industry. Sport law and sport ethics concepts are also overviewed in this course. The course combines classroom instruction with an embedded 30-hour practicum , allowing students to gain direct experience in real-world sports management settings such as athletic departments, sports organizations, or community programs.
This course will introduce students to the entrepreneurial spirit and will explore practical methods and procedures used by the most successful entrepreneurs to research, plan, implement, control, and potentially sell a successful business. Using a step-by-step approach, the course will guide students through the essential stages of forming a successful business.
MGMT 332The Entrepreneurial Mind: Creativity and Innovation3
This course is designed to introduce perspectives and practices necessary to stimulate and manage creativity and innovation in a business or other social enterprise. Students are provided the frameworks and methods of designing, developing, and implementing innovation in empirical settings. The goal of the course is to provide the student with the perspective and skills necessary to manage innovation-focused people, projects, and ventures. Spring.
Social entrepreneurs integrate the knowledge and skills used in business with a passion and commitment to having a meaningful and sustainable social impact. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history, theory and emerging activities of social entrepreneurship around the world and make clear connections to our Franciscan goals and values. The intent of social entrepreneurship is to create project teams or new ventures to apply their passion to enriching the lives of people who are impoverished, sick, or disenfranchised. The most successful ventures find creative ways to empower the disadvantaged help themselves, by building innovative and sustainable social enterprises that can be scaled to achieve significant social change. Subtopics such as sustainability, impact and performance, innovation and change, and social entrepreneurship leadership are woven into the course. Spring.
This course will explore the methods available to finance entrepreneurial ventures from start up through expansion. Students will learn a variety of finance strategies, how to manage cash flow, and best practices in small business startups. They will also explore alternative funding streams for small businesses and gain insight into organizations that assist entrepreneurs in acquiring, starting, or expanding their businesses, such as economic development financing programs at the federal, state, regional, and local levels. Students will also gain knowledge in executing a feasibility plan for a business concept and master the elements of a business plan complete with supporting documents.
This course covers the major relevant supply chain technologies and systems. In this course you’ll survey the systems that enable the supply chain in best-in-class supply chain organizations. Understanding of how information flows throughout the supply chain is critical to managing a supply chain and this will be the main focus in this course. By the end of this course, you will have gained a basic understanding of how supply chain systems work and how they make the supply chain more efficient and effective. This course is offered online through a consortium of accredited colleges and universities. Instruction is provided by faculty employed by partner institutions within the consortium, with technology and administrative support provided by Rize Education. Oversight of courses offered through the consortium are reviewed and approved by Saint Francis University. Students register through and receive academic credit from Saint Francis University.
MGMT 240 Forecasting and Logistics and MGMT 241 Sourcing and Operations
MGMT 341Supply Chain in Action3
In this course, you’ll learn about the application of supply chain systems to vital real-world functions. By the end of this class, you’ll have a much better understanding of why supply chain management is vitally important, how it intersects with business, national and global interest, and how supply chains literally save the world. This course is offered online through a consortium of accredited colleges and universities. Instruction is provided by faculty employed by partner institutions within the consortium, with technology and administrative support provided by Rize Education. Oversight of courses offered through the consortium are reviewed and approved by Saint Francis University. Students register through and receive academic credit from Saint Francis University.
MGMT 352International Business Study Tour Independent Study I3
An exploration of international business management issues or other special topics related to the specific destination of the study tour. The course will include travel to a foreign country to observe business practices and examine indigenous business problems and opportunities, to meet with representatives of local business and other institutions, Locations of tour can vary. The Business Administration department chair must approve this course.
MGMT 353International Business Study Tour Independent Study II3
An exploration of international business management issues or other special topics related to the specific destination of the study tour. The course will include travel to a foreign country to observe business practices and examine indigenous business problems and opportunities, to meet with representatives of local business and other institutions, Locations of tour can vary. The Business Administration department chair must approve this course.
An understanding of the critical role of managing sports events and facilities in the primary theme of this course. Topics include constructing a facility, conducting feasibility studies, financing a facility, identifying specific types of facilities, producing events, day-to-day operations, concessions, risk management, maintenance, franchise interaction, and the career paths to become a successful sports event and/or facility manager. Sports event management topics covered including protocols in planning sports events, risk management assessment, celebrity contracts, media marketing and advertising, sponsorship, merchandising, hospitality, and assessment of event success. This course examines the planning, design, financing, marketing, and management of sport facilities and sport events. Students will explore facility operations, event logistics, risk management, revenue generation, sustainability, and legacy impacts. Emphasis is placed on applied learning through case studies and project-based work
Students will examine the conceptual framework for ethical decision-making using sports as a prism to examine normative perspectives. Varied ethical perspectives are analyzed through the conflicts presented in critical sports-related questions. Course readings and lectures examine the theoretical constructs of ethical decision-making from Christian and non-Christian positions, giving specific attention to Franciscan values and the Franciscan Goals of Higher Education. Athletes, coaches, physical therapists, trainers, and sport managers in sport frequently face complex decisions and dilemmas, often with ethical and moral implications. It is therefore critical for current and future participants and leaders in sport to explore their understandings of moral and ethical concepts and principles and how these understandings inform decision-making and policy in sport. This course will challenge students to examine ethical issues central to contemporary sport. Students will learn to recognize moral questions, understand various ethical theories and how to apply them to solve moral problems, and develop an appreciation for philosophic inquiry concerning a pervasive and powerful part of American society.
MGMT 362Intercollegiate Athletics in Higher Education3
This course examines ethical theory and moral reasoning as applied to sport and athletics. Students will explore contemporary ethical dilemmas in amateur, intercollegiate, and professional sport. Emphasis is placed on developing structured ethical decision-making skills and applying ethical frameworks to real-world cases involving governance, athlete welfare, equity, performance enhancement, commercialization, and leadership. Students will examine the conceptual framework for ethical decision-making using sports as prism to examine normative perspectives. Varied ethical perspectives are analyzed through the conflicts presented in critical sports-related questions. Course readings and lectures examine the theoretical constructs of ethical decision-making from Christian and non-Christian positions, giving specific attention to Franciscan values and the Franciscan Goals of Higher Education. Athletes, coaches, physical therapists, trainers, and sport managers in sport frequently face difficult decisions and dilemmas, often with ethical and moral implications. It is therefore critical for current and future participants and leaders in sport to explore their understandings of moral and ethical concepts and principles and how these understandings inform decision-making and policy in sport. This course will challenge students to examine ethical issues central to contemporary sport. Students will learn to recognize moral questions, understand various ethical theories and how to apply them to solve moral problems, and develop an appreciation for philosophic inquiry concerning a pervasive and powerful part of American society. This course is designed for college administrators and coaches from all disciplines with the intent of enhancing the understanding of the role of intercollegiate athletics in higher education. Through an in-depth consideration of the history, present, and future of sport within the context of colleges and universities, students are prepared to work effectively with athletics administrators, coaches, and student-athletes in the campus environment. Class participants will examine the role intercollegiate athletics plays within the higher education community and the larger society. The reasons for the often-perceived divide between the academics and athletics “sides” of campus is examined, as well as ethical issues facing sports in higher education today. This course examines the governance, leadership, finance, compliance, and contemporary challenges of intercollegiate athletics. Students explore NCAA structure, conference systems, athletic department organization, revenue generation, NIL, media influence, diversity and inclusion, and student-athlete welfare. Emphasis is placed on practical application through case studies, a practicum or strategic analysis.
The integration of classroom theory with practical work experience under which students have specific periods of attendance at college and specific periods of employment, either full or part-time, with or without pay. Credit may vary from one to three credits, depending upon the internship, but no more than nine credits may be counted toward major elective requirements, with additional credits counted as free electives. Open only to Management majors, with approval of the chair of the department and the chief academic officer. Fall, Spring, Summer.
The integration of classroom theory with practical work experience under which students have specific periods of attendance at college and specific periods of employment, either full or part-time, with or without pay. Credit may vary from one to 12 credits, depending upon the internship, but no more than nine credits may be counted toward major elective requirements, with additional credits counted as free electives. Open only to Management majors, with approval of the chair of the department and the chief academic officer. Fall, Spring, Summer.
An introduction to the principles and practices of strategic management, sometimes called business policy or long-range planning. the steps of strategic management and the elements of each step. SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats) and its methods, incorporating principles and practices in the analysis of organizations from accounting, finance and economics, marketing, and management. Required for all students in the Business Administration Department. Prerequisite(s) ACCT 101 , MGMT 101 , MKTG 101 or MGMT 315
An integration of all major knowledge from courses in management and organizational behavior, especially MGMT 101 Principles of Management and MGMT 326 Organizational Behavior
This course - built in collaboration with corporate advisors - is the culmination of your work as a student of supply chain management. In this course you’ll be tasked with creating a series of solutions to actual problems faced by a real-world company in delivering their product to consumers. By the end of this course, you will have built experience in solving real-world supply chain problems and seeing how your solutions compare to the professionals. This course is offered online through a consortium of accredited colleges and universities. Instruction is provided by faculty employed by partner institutions within the consortium, with technology and administrative support provided by Rize Education. Oversight of courses offered through the consortium are reviewed and approved by Saint Francis University. Students register through and receive academic credit from Saint Francis University.
