BBA 310: Management

Overview

BBA 310 teaches management by focusing on the fundamental functions and tasks that comprise the manager's job in organizations today. Managers perform five primary functions: As decision makers and planners, managers make multiple decisions each day that affect all aspects of the group they manage, and they develop and execute plans that move their group forward and achieve challenging objectives. As organizers, managers build an organizational structure for their group that enables employees to effectively perform their jobs and work with other units in the organization. As controllers, managers develop control systems to ensure that actual outcomes achieve stated objectives. As leaders, managers influence and motivate individuals and teams to perform effectively over the long-term. And as innovators, they lead ongoing change in organizations, working to ensure that the organization is continually learning and changing with the demands of its environment.

In addition to these functions, the course addresses the organization's environment (its industry and beyond), the challenges of building and maintaining an ethically and socially responsible organization and the tasks and issues involved in expanding a business into global markets.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Analyze the external environment of an organization and identify the key environmental opportunities and threats facing the organization.
• Discuss the primary challenges and tools for management in building ethically and socially responsible organizations and in expanding into global markets.
• Analyze a company’s organizational structure.
• Assess an organization’s strategic management processes.
• Develop a management communication plan.
• Assess a company's practices/approaches to financial management, human resources management, leading and managing people, the use of teams, communications, and leading change.
• Assess approaches to leading and motivating individuals and teams in organizations and recommend necessary improvements.
• Identify challenges faced by management and recommend ways to effectively deal with the challenges.

Required Texts
BBA 310 texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore