Course Description

Effective: 2015-05-01

General Course Purpose

The purpose of the business etiquette course is to significantly improve students' human relationship knowledge and skills which can be used to successfully interrelate with customers, associates, employees, and superiors in a business setting.

Course Objectives

• Explain the importance of understanding diversity issues and family and cultural values in the workplace
• Conduct meetings, work on committees, and value teamwork
• Demonstrate oral and written communication techniques that are in compliance with basic business etiquette (email composition, memos, spoken and written grammar and decorum)
• Exhibit and demonstrate and understanding of professional behavior and proper image in a business setting
• Demonstrate the basics of table and dining etiquette
• Demonstrate proper business telephone etiquette

Major Topics to be Included

• Professional Behavior and Image in a Business Setting
• Telephone Etiquette
• Table Etiquette
• Oral and Written Communication
• Meetings, Committees, and Teamwork
• Diversity, Family & Cultural Values

Course Description

Effective: 2015-08-01

General Course Purpose

This course will give students a better understanding of how manufacturing economics has an impact across all areas of a precision machining manufacturing environment. Students will learn how fixed/variable costs, product costing, allocation methods, and working capital management have an impact of the shop floor and the entire organization. This course also provides the opportunity for students to see the impact of cash and inventory on a precision machining environment.

Course Objectives

• Demonstrate the effects of fixed and variable costs
• Define allocation methods and working capital management
• Identify cost benefit analysis
• Define deprecation and overhead, relate manufacturing economics ideas to a manufacturing environment

Major Topics to be Included

• Product costing and fixed and variable costs
• Allocation methods
• Working capital management
• Impact of cash and inventory
• Relative range
• Causal effect
• Overhead and depreciation

Course Description

Effective: 2016-05-01

General Course Purpose

The purpose of the advanced project management course is to develop additional in-depth competencies in such topics as project charter creation, work breakdown structure (WBS) design, risk management, cost budgeting, scheduling tools (e.g., network diagrams and Gantt charts), team development and motivation, stakeholder management, earned value management (EVM), and other pertinent project management skills.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

Prerequisite BUS 204

Course Objectives

• Prepare a complete project management plan including the following components: business case, project charter, work breakdown structure (WBS), duration estimates, critical path, budget, baseline, earned value management (EVM), team member human resource management and motivation, stakeholder management, risk management, communication plan development, change management plan, and project closing procedures.
• Define and develop a project management plan
• Discuss how individual project fit with an organization?s strategic plan, programs, and overall project portfolio
• Define project scope
• Develop a project charter
• Develop work breakdown structures (WBS)
• Understand network diagramming concepts and techniques for project scheduling
• Estimate project activity durations
• Discuss estimation techniques such as forward-pass and backward-pass for project scheduling
• Identify the project critical path
• Develop project budgets and baselines
• Utilize techniques to control scope, cost, duration, quality, and risk
• Identify stakeholders and know techniques for managing stakeholders
• Define project activities
• Sequence project activities
• Planning project communication distribution of project information
• Use tools, and techniques necessary to complete project work activities and work packages
• Discuss the human resource management techniques for project management
• Identify methods for communicating with and working with project stakeholders
• Understand the process of selecting vendors and awarding procurement contracts
• Understand methods for monitoring, tracking, and reviewing the progress and performance of a project
• Identify how to perform project change management
• Use earned value management (EVM) to measure and monitor project performance and update project completion estimates
• Understand how project deliverables are accepted as completed
• Describe the interrelationships of the triple-constraints of project management: scope, schedule/cost, and quality
• Develop basic risk analysis plans and risk response plans
• Discuss and use project management decision making tools, techniques, and formulas

Major Topics to be Included

• Project management planning
• Strategic planning
• Organizational structure
• Project portfolio management
• Project scope
• Project charter
• Work breakdown structures (WBS)
• Network diagramming concepts and techniques (Gantt, PERT, AOA, AON)
• Forward-pass and backward-pass for project scheduling
• Critical path
• Project budgets and baselines
• Control scope, cost, duration, quality, and risk
• Managing stakeholders
• Defining project activities
• Sequencing project activities
• Estimating project activity durations
• Project communication management
• Work activities and work packages
• Human resource management techniques specific to project management
• Vendor selection
• Procurement contracts
• Monitoring, tracking, and reviewing the progress and performance of a project
• Project change management
• Earned value management (EVM)
• Project performance and completion estimates
• Project deliverable acceptance
• Triple-constraints of project management: scope, schedule/cost, and quality
• Risk analysis and risk response plans
• Additional project management decision making tools, techniques, and formulas

Course Description

Effective: 2012-08-01

General Course Purpose

Provide the student with knowledge in the area of compensation and benefits and the ability to design a pay model that is integrated with the organizations strategic objectives.

Course Objectives

• Apply the pay model to a case study and demonstrate how compensation and benefits are designed to meet the strategic objectives of the organization.
• Develop techniques for conducting salary surveys.
• Analyze a compensation to determine the strengths and weaknesses.
• Describe the role job evaluation and job design serve in the total compensation program.
• Identify and evaluate the various pay for performance plans.
• Understand the importance of balancing the need for internal alignment with market pricing when developing a pay structure for an organization.
• Design pay levels and pay structures that are integrated with an organization?s compensation strategy.
• Identify the laws and regulations that impact compensation and benefits.

Major Topics to be Included

• The Pay Model
• Job Evaluation & Job Design
• Benefits
• Salary Surveys
• Pay Structures
• Laws and Regulations Affecting Compensation & Benefits

Course Description

Effective: 2012-08-01

General Course Purpose

Provide the student with knowledge and ability to design and deliver a training program using a variety of training methods and technology.

Course Objectives

• Demonstrate knowledge of training and development methods and processes by developing and presenting a training program as a case study.
• Understand the contributions of training and development in meeting the overall goals, strategies, and mission of the organization.
• Design a training needs assessment for an organization.
• Develop skills leading individual, group, and organizational learning processes.
• Understand the role of managing training and development in an organization.
• Demonstrate an ability to evaluate training programs by designing a program evaluation.
• Utilize technology in training delivery.

Major Topics to be Included

• Learning Theories
• Needs Assessment
• E-Learning and the Use of Technology
• Employee Development
• Training Methods
• Evaluating Training

Course Description

Effective: 2012-08-01

General Course Purpose

Provides the student with the knowledge of the concepts, theories, and methodologies utilized in the efficient and effective staffing of organizations.

Course Objectives

• Design and implement recruiting and selection programs that are ethical and legal and effectively meet the needs of the organization.
• Apply a staffing model that supports an organizations strategic plan.
• Identify and understand the laws that impact the recruitment and selection processes.
• Conduct job analysis, job evaluations, and prepare job descriptions.
• Understand the concepts, theories, and methods used in the recruitment, selection, and retention processes.
• Research and identify recruiting methods and demonstrate understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of each.
• Develop effective retention strategies.

Major Topics to be Included

• Job Descriptions
• Laws and Regulations impacting the Recruitment and Selection Processes
• Recruiting Sources
• Job Analysis and Job Evaluation
• Employee Motivation
• The Employee Selection Process

Course Description

Effective: 2014-08-01

General Course Purpose

This course is formed from Business Statistics I (BUS 221) and II (BUS 222) to meet the business statistics requirements of a business degree program. It is designed, therefore, for a student who plans to transfer to a four-year college or university to receive a baccalaureate degree in business field. The student will acquire knowledge of certain basic terminology and methods in descriptive and inferential statistics.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

Prerequisite: MTH 163

Course Objectives

• Organizing and Displaying data
• organize ungrouped data into a frequency distribution
• construct different types of graphs using statistical software
• Descriptive Measures
• arrange ungrouped data into an array, and determine the mean, median, mode, percentiles and quartiles
• compute the range, variance, and standard deviation
• recognize the shape of the distribution?symmetrical and asymmetrical
• identify the modal class, median class, and class width of a given frequency distribution
• generate summary statistics using statistical software
• Discrete Probability Distributions
• compute expected value and variance of a discrete distribution
• state the required conditions for the use of the binomial distribution
• compute expected value and variance of a binomial distribution
• with the use of formula and table, solve problems involving binomial distribution
• recognize the conditions under which it is appropriate to use the Poisson distribution
• solve problems involving the Poisson distribution
• Continuous Probability Distribution
• describe the characteristics of normal distribution and standardized normal distribution
• solve normal curve problems using table
• normal approximation to the binomial distribution problems
• demonstrate the use of the normal distribution in business problem solving
• Sampling and Sampling Distributions
• distinguish between probability and non-probability sampling
• recognize random sampling techniques
• understand the sampling distribution of sample means
• Confidence Intervals for Single Population Mean and Proportion
• know the difference between point estimates and interval estimates
• calculate confidence intervals for mean and proportion
• compute appropriate sample size
• construct confidence interval using statistics package
• Hypothesis Testing for Single Population Mean and Proportion
• formulate null and alternative hypotheses
• understand the important of controlling ?
• determine the critical value using z-table, and t-table
• calculate the test statistic using appropriate distribution
• write conclusion in word
• Hypothesis Testing for Two Populations
• solve problems testing the difference in two means
• find p-value
• construct confidence intervals to estimate the difference in the means of two populations
• Simple Linear Regression and Correlation
• create and interpret scatter diagrams
• develop a regression model by the method of least squares
• check model assumptions using residual plots and normal probability plot
• measure the relationship among data through the calculation of the coefficients of determination and correlation
• Multiple Linear Regression
• Using Excel or Minitab
• Analysis of Categorical Data
• compare theoretical frequencies to actual frequencies using chi-square goodness-of-fit test
• determine whether the two variables are independent using chi-square test of independence

Major Topics to be Included

• Organizing and displaying data
• Measures of central tendency and variability
• Basic probability concepts and problems
• Use of probability distributions: Binomial and Poisson, and use of the normal distribution
• Sampling and sampling distributions
• Confidence intervals for the population mean and proportion using normal distribution
• Basic hypothesis testing
• Advanced Hypothesis Testing
• Simple Regression Analysis
• Multiple Regression using statistical package
• Categorical Data Analysis
• Computer Application

Course Description

Effective: 2019-05-01

General Course Purpose

Offers skill-building in advanced statistics and decision analysis skills.

Course Prerequisites/Corequisites

Prerequisite: MTH 163 or division approval.

Course Objectives

• Operational performance in quantitative modeling, linear programming, forecasting, and decision analysis.
• Ability to effectively apply statistical analysis.
• Appropriate data presentation skills using spreadsheet tools.

Major Topics to be Included

• Linear programming
• Correlation analysis
• Time-series forecasting
• Queuing theory
• Probabilistic and non-probabilistic decision analysis; decision tree methods
• Expected Monetary Value
• Network models

Course Description

Effective: 2019-01-01

General Course Purpose

Students will gain an understanding of the opportunities and issues in emerging and developed countries, their business environment and practices, and consumer demands for products and services in those countries. The course emphasizes development of ability to analyze global data from a variety of sources, such as financial, customer, social media, video, voice, text, machine data and other structured and unstructured data. The typical work environment of businesses and professional organizations requires people to work as team members to critically analyze difficult issues and arrive at a common resolution. Collaborative learning makes it easy for teams of learners to bring a variety of talents to bear on problems. Because they have different talents, perspectives, diverse experiences and backgrounds, team members together can solve problems that they could not solve alone.

Course Objectives

• Recognize personal biases and difficulties working with people from different parts of the world
• Explain the role that dealing with and overcoming difficulty plays in shaping ones worldview
• Apply the process of exercising good professional judgment
• Be aware of common threats to exercising good judgment
• Develop and improve professional judgment abilities
• Discover the power of aligning diverse team members on a focused mission and common
• Develop interpersonal skills, especially leadership
• Apply critical thinking and analytical ski lls under uncertainty
• Address the ethical challenges in global business
• Communicate data analysis and conclusions orally and in writing, in a professional manner

Major Topics to be Included

• What is "global mindset"?
• Interaction of public/private sector
• Professional judgment for business professionals
• Global financial reporting
• Role of taxation