Gannon University

FACULTY: Professor: Constantine Kliorys, Assistant Professors: Thomas Comstock, Mary Crane. Emeriti Faculty: David Eichelsdorfer, David Frew.

The management major provides students with the foundation to critically analyze the systems, processes, resources and culture of today's organizations and to make critical decisions regarding resource allocations in competitive environments. It allows students to pursue one or both specialty paths. Students can focus on the management of people or on the management of process, the two key elements of the production process.

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS:

MGMT 204: Business Law I
A study of the nature and sources of law; a study of agencies, partnerships, corporations, uniform commercial code topics including sales contracts, negotiable instruments and secured transactions as well as the other areas of the law related to business transactions, bankruptcy, trusts, and estates.
3 credits

MGMT 205: Business Law II
A study of negotiable instruments, property, and decedents’ estates.
3 credits

MGMT 211: Human Resource Management
Human resource management methods and techniques in contemporary industry. Topics include manpower training, recruitment, safety, wage and salary, benefits, and labor relations.
Prerequisite: BCOR 251
3 credits, Fall

MGMT 213: Labor and Employment Management
Attention is focused on the legal issues surrounding the employee/employer relationship. Avoiding suits based on racial, sexual, age, religious and disability discrimination will be discussed. Also covered will be a review of the history of the labor movement, negotiation of the collective bargaining agreement, organizing drives, regulation of collective bargaining, and wage and fringe problems.
Prerequisite: BCOR 211
3 credits, Spring

MGMT 215: Compensation Management
An investigation of effective ways of compensating workers. The uses of job evaluation, incentives, the wage survey and performance appraisal are studied.
Prerequisite: MGMT 211
3 credits

MGMT 220: Making Teams Work
Contemporary organizations increasingly utilize teams to leverage the skills of individuals in pursuit of synergistic solutions. This course will expose students to concepts of group Dynamics and the stages of team development and allow students to develop their skills in team building and leadership and the interpersonal skills needed to manage conflict and to foster cohesion and performance in teams.
Prerequisite: MGMT 211
3 credits

MGMT 285: Management Independent Study
Selected students will spend a period of time working on a project of independent study.
Prerequisite: Permission of the program director, the cooperating organization, and Senior status.
1-3 credits

MGMT 310: International Management
This course explores the management discipline in an international context. Specific topics include international strategy, international human resource management, cross cultural management and international organization structure and managing business and government relations in an international context.
Prerequisite: BCOR 306
3 credits

MGMT 316: Organizational Behavior
This course examines individual and group behavior in relationships and organizations. Students learn about their own behaviors, to what these are attributed and how to adapt behaviors to meet group needs. Several tools are introduced which can be used to accommodate individual differences with relationships and organizations. This course is approved as a Social Science course for the Core of Discovery.
Prerequisite: Junior status.
3 credits

MGMT 317: Operations Management
A basic overview of the total production process. Topics include production and inventory control, investment decision making, capacity planning, logistics and transportation systems, facilities selection and layout, design, work methods, quality control, Japanese and other contemporary methods of manufacturing.
Prerequisites: BCOR 311, BCOR 221, CIS 150, BCOR 251
3 credits

MGMT 320: Application of Management Information
Proper analysis of data assists managers in the decision making process. This class will provide for students the opportunity to interpret data, judge its validity, assess its relevance and evaluate its reliability.
Prerequisites: BCOR 311
3 credits

MGMT 325: Quantitative Business Analysis
This course examines business problems from a quantitative model building point of view, using selected models from management science, including linear and nonlinear programming and simulation.
Prerequisites: BCOR 221 , BCOR 251
3 credits

MGMT 330: Project Management
This course is an introduction to the modern techniques for planning, scheduling, reporting, controlling and managing projects. Particular emphasis is given to the project planning process including the project life cycle, requirements and scope. Team roles and responsibilities, risk and contingency, budgeting, resource allocation and scheduling are also introduced.
Prequisite: MGMT 325
3 credits

MGMT 350: Quality Management
This course is designed to familiarize students with the concepts and practice of quality management (QM). QM is a systems approach to management that aims to always increase value to the customers by designing and continuously improving organizational processes and systems. This approach involves all employees and extends backward and forward in the supply chain to encompass the entire product life cycle. QM is concerned with managing the entire organizational system, not only subsystems or functional departments within a corporation.
Prerequisite: BCOR 221
3 credits

MGMT 360: Ethical and Social Responsibility
This course explores the nature of various interrelationships within the environment of the firm, particularly the relationship with societies and governments, including the effects of globalization on the firm. The responsibilities the firm has when pursuing its objectives and critically assessing the ethical issues associated with managerial decision making are the major focus of the course.
Prerequisite: Junior or Senior status.
3 credits

MGMT 370: Management Science
The use of quantitative tools in decision making. Topics will be selected from the following: model building, assignment methods, transportation methods, linear programming, inventory, pert, queuing, simulation, expectation, decision trees, and decision theory.
Prerequisites: BCOR 221, CIS 150
3 credits

MGMT 375: Organizational Internship
Selected students will be able to spend a period of time (50 hours per credit hour) working as an Intern with a local organization. During this period the student will maintain a journal, will meet regularly with a faculty member, and with a supervisor to provide continuing evaluation of quality and progress of the student’s work. At the conclusion of the experience the student will submit a paper to the supervisor and faculty member and make an oral presentation.
Prerequisite: Junior who has permission of the department and the cooperating organization.
1-3 credits

MGMT 399: Special Topics in Management
A specially designed course which consists of contemporary issues in management.
3 credits

MGMT 410: Supply Chain Management
Successful organizations align processes and quality issues with the demands of the marketplace by meeting and exceeding custom expectations. This course is an introduction to the issues and decisions that are routinely faced by supply chain managers. It will investigate how successful firms integrate the sourcing, manufacturing, fulfillment and quality processes across supply-chain networks to support a customer-oriented operation.
Prerequisite: MGMT 325
3 credits

BCOR 203: Business in its Legal Environment
See the course description under the Business Core.
3 credits

BCOR 231: Professional and Business Writing
See the course description under the Business Core.
3 credits

BCOR 251: Principles of Management
See the course description under the Business Core.
3 credits

BK/BCOR 306: International Business
See the course description under the Business Core.
3 credits

BK/BCOR 480: Business Policy
See the course description under the Business Core.
3 credits

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Management Curriculum

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THE NEXT STEP
Baccalaureate Degree program for Graduates of Two Year Colleges.

Management
(Numerals in front of course indicate credits)

*Fulfills Senior Seminar/LBST 383

**Fulfills Philosophy II Series

Students will complete 66 credits at Gannon. Students will be required to take other courses in substitution for any of the courses listed above which they satisfactorily complete prior to admission to the program. Students are required to take 18 hours from Gannon’s Core of Discovery program.

Prerequisites:

The above course requirements presume that the student has completed the following courses (or their equivalent), typically found in an A.S. degree program, prior to matriculation. If not, these become additional required courses in the program.

Accounting (BCOR 201& 202)                             Business Technology (CIS 150)
Algebra for Business Students (Math 114)         Legal Env/Bus Law (BCOR 203)
Economics (BCOR 111 & 112)                           Composition (LENG 111 & 112)
Management (BCOR 251)