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2019-2020 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Spring Addendum
Pacific Oaks College
   
2019-2020 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Spring Addendum 
    
 
  May 13, 2024
 
2019-2020 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Spring Addendum [Archived Catalog]

Course Descriptions


 

Business

  
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    MGT 413 - Managing Change

    3 Credit(s)
    This course begins with the premise that managing and leading change in the face of uncertainty and risk is a central task of the organizational leadership team, whether considering a large multinational organization or a start-up biotechnology venture.  Topics include organizational development approaches to developing the processes and practices. 

  
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    MGT 416 - Operations Management

    3 Credit(s)
    This course presents students with opportunities to apply traditional management functions that include planning, organizing, controlling, and leading in various situations.  Students are challenged to apply these concepts in ways that foster team cohesiveness and efficiency through effective management of operations and operations management.  Students develop a sound understanding of the relationship between each managerial function, successful execution of these functions, and desired results. In addition, ethical considerations as they relate to management will be explored. 

  
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    MGT 420 - Compensation and Benefits

    3 Credit(s)
    The course explores the linkage between employee motivation and compensation and benefit systems across the employee lifecycle.  Attention is given to the changing needs of the global workforce.  Prerequisite(s): MGT 411  

  
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    MGT 430 - Training and Development

    3 Credit(s)
    This course reviews basic employee appraisal, training and career development issues with special emphasis on program design, implementation, and evaluation.  Prerequisite(s): MGT 411  

  
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    MGT 431 - Performance Management

    3 Credit(s)
    This course provides practical working knowledge of processes of setting expectations, monitoring performance, coaching and developing employees, and assessing and rewarding good performance in rapidly changing organizations.  Prerequisite(s): MGT 411  

  
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    MGT 450 - Cultural Diversity in the Workplace

    3 Credit(s)
    This course is designed to teach students how to manage the increasingly multicultural workforce in the United States. Students are exposed to the basic concepts and issues of intercultural communication and cross-cultural relations and explore the challenge that managing cultural diversity presents to both organizations and individuals.  Prerequisite(s): BUS 320  

  
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    MKT 230 - Principles of Marketing

    3 Credit(s)
    The course provides the fundamentals of marketing management in a dynamic organizational environment, including an analysis of such functions as product development, promotion, channels of distribution, and logistics.  An introduction to the basic tools of marketing research is also provided. 

  
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    MKT 431 - Consumer Behavior

    3 Credit(s)
    This course examines the relationship of domestic and global consumer behavior and the marketing mix.  Topics include differentiation strategies through the understanding of psychological and socio-cultural influences on consumer purchase decisions, strategic consumer behavior models, the role of ethics in consumer behavior research and marketing.  Prerequisite(s): MKT 230  

 

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