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Management of Technology | Business | Online Courses

$95
Course Description: This course introduces students to the steps necessary to analyze a problem in information technology and identify and define the computing requirements appropriate to its solution, with a focus on how to design, implement, and evaluate a computer-based system, process, component, or program to meet desired needs. Students learn to analyze the local and global impact of computing on individuals, organizations, and society. This course leads students to recognize the need for continuing professional development and imparts an understanding of professional, ethical, legal, security and social issues, and responsibilities in information technology.

Course Objectives:

The fundamental connections linking core business strategy, technology, and innovation

How these functions intertwine to play a central role in process layout, systems, structural design, and product development, as well as supporting an organization's overall success

About the latest trends and research

About assessment methods for organization and management processes

About special tools and techniques for managing and organizing Technology and Innovation
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Ethical Leadership | Business | Online Courses

$95
Course Description: This course provides an understanding of how values shape individual ethical behaviors, and how these behaviors influence leadership and decision-making. It will provide practical knowledge and tools needed to effectively manage the everyday ethical conduct of employees. The course also discusses how legal, philosophical, and corporate practices influence ethical behavior for individuals and companies. Students examine how social, environmental, and stakeholder responsibilities, as well as different values impact ethical behavior in companies.

Course Objectives:

Develop a usable framework for accurately identifying, considering, and acting in situations of ethical importance

Understand why an individual’s basic beliefs about life necessarily drive one’s view of ethics

Know the roles that culture and society play in determining ethical standards

Understand the primary approaches to ethics, including self-interest, altruism, social contracts, virtue ethics, and natural law

Practice applying ethical frameworks to classic and contemporary business issues

Understand the debate about who should control businesses, including the purpose of business and the role of stakeholders
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Technology and Operations Management | Business | Online Courses

$95
Course Description: This course enables students to develop the skills and concepts needed to ensure the ongoing contribution of a firm's operations to its competitive position. It helps students to understand the complex processes underlying the development and manufacture of products as well as the creation and delivery of services. Topics encompass:

Process analysis

Cross-functional and cross-firm integration

Product development

Information technology

Technology and operations strategy

Course Objectives:

Explain the strategic role of operations management and its competitive advantage for organizational survival

Explain the relationships between the operations function and other functional areas of a business such as marketing, finance, and information systems, and how they can work together to achieve the business strategy

Explain approaches to designing and improving processes

Use relevant electronic spreadsheet tools (e.g. solver) to solve operations management problems

Apply/analyze relevant quantitative models to solve real-world problems

Appraise real-life business situation and suggest solution alternatives as related to operations management tools/techniques
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Global Economy | Business | Online Courses

$95
Course Description: This course offers an overview of various aspects of global economy within the field of economic geography and its linkages to related issues of resources, development, international business and trade. It investigates the phenomenon of globalization and seeks to provide understanding of today’s increasingly interdependent world. Geographers are interested in examining the difference location makes to how economic activity is organized as globalization makes small differences among places increasingly important. This course recognizes that economy cannot be treated separately from other domains of social studies so such topics as political economic theories and models, historical context, consumption trends, role of telecommunications, and others will be discussed.

Course Objectives:

Fundamentals regarding the dynamics of the global economy and a basic understanding of the evolution of spatial organization theory

Characteristics of capitalist economies; examine economic causes of population change and new trends in urban sprawl, human modification of environment and impact of mass consumption, role play location decisions of firms and reveal geographic organization of corporations

The effects of agricultural practices on the land, recent global shifts in manufacturing, growth of service sector, innovations in transport and communications
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Leadership and Corporate Accountability | Business | Online Courses

$95
Course Description: In this course, students learn about the complex responsibilities facing business leaders today. Through cases about difficult managerial decisions, the course examines the legal, ethical, and economic responsibilities of corporate leaders. The course teaches students about management and governance systems leaders can use to promote responsible conduct by companies and their employees, and shows how personal values can play a critical role in effective leadership.

Course Objectives:

Understand role-related responsibilities

Learn how to incorporate these responsibilities into the decision making process

Learn how to build organizations that can make good on these responsibilities

Develop the personal strength and resources needed to recognize and carry out these responsibilities in ambiguous, stressful, and fast-changing situations
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Managerial Accounting | Business | Online Courses

$95
Course Description: This course examines the principles, techniques, and uses of accounting in the planning and control of business organizations from a management perspective. Identified are the budgetary process and related performance evaluation techniques, cost-volume-profit relationship, product costing methods, Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing, and Activity Based Costing (ABC). Related theory and application will also be reviewed.

Course Objectives:

How managers use and analyze managerial accounting information to make decisions

How to prepare an operating budget and understand where and how to acquire the necessary information

Time value of money analysis using discounted cash flow technique

Interpret and explain the difference between net present value, internal rate of return and payback

Analyze a capital budget request
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Human Capital | Business | Online Courses

$95
Course Description: The course is designed for the perspective of the general manager attempting to leverage the human resources of the organization in ways that create not only revenues, profits, and growth, but also create a unique place to work, create unique products and services, and create employees and customers who are apostles of the enterprise.

Course Objectives:

About the ways to achieve high performance by way of organizational effectiveness through people.

About how people are motivated, and how assumptions drive the kind of processes, structures and strategies they create.

How to create high expectations of self and others not only within the class but also within the organizations

Specific skills required for a general manager to operate those levers to achieve the desired results.
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Standards of Charitable Accountability | Business | Online Courses

$95
Standards of Charitable Accountability Course Syllabus
Course Description: This course will provide an overview of the standards for charitable accountability and how they are used to ensure that charities operate in a responsible and transparent manner. It will cover topics such as the BBB Standards for Charity Accountability, the Accountability Standards, and Charity Navigator's rating system. Participants will gain an understanding of how these standards can be used to evaluate charities and make informed decisions when donating. Course Objectives:

Understand the importance of charity accountability standards

Learn about the BBB Standards for Charity Accountability

Identify key components of the Accountability Standards

Evaluate a charity using Charity Navigator's rating system

Analyze financial statements to assess fiscal responsibility

Develop strategies to ensure transparency in charity operations

Discuss best practices for board governance in charities

Examine ethical considerations related to paid staff members and their relatives in governing bodies

Assess results reporting systems used by charities

Implement measures to promote public trust in charitable organizations
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Financial Markets | Business | Online Courses

$95
Course Description: This course examines the role of finance in supporting the functional areas of a firm, and fosters an understanding of how financial decisions themselves can create value.

Course Objectives:

Basic analytical skills and principles of corporate finance

Functions of modern capital markets and financial institutions

Apply basic financial theory to Financial Systems

Demonstrate a working knowledge of institutional frameworks

Demonstrate an understanding of the operation of domestic money and capital markets and of their linkages with global financial markets

Demonstrate a working knowledge of the financial products that are available

Gain an appreciation for some current issues in financial markets

Acquire an introductory understanding of risk management
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Sport Management, Introduction | Business | Online Courses

$95
Introduction to Sport Management Course Syllabus
Course Description: This course is designed to introduce students to the dynamic nature of sport management. Topics covered in this course include sports within our culture, sports enterprise, planning and organizing sporting events, budgeting and finance, marketing and promotion, legal issues in sport management, human resource management in sport organizations, and ethics in sport. By the end of this course, students will have a comprehensive understanding of the field of sport management. Course Objectives:

Understand the scope of the sport industry as a major business enterprise in the US and globally

Explain the various components of sports management such as planning and organizing sporting events, budgeting and finance, marketing and promotion, legal issues in sport management, human resource management in sport organizations, and ethics in sport

Analyze how different aspects of sports are managed on a daily basis

Develop an understanding of how to effectively manage personnel within a sports organization

Evaluate ethical considerations when managing a sports organization or event

Examine how marketing strategies are used to promote a team or event within a competitive environment

Identify legal issues that may arise when managing a sports organization or event

Design strategies for creating successful budgets for sporting events or organizations

Apply knowledge gained from this course to real-world scenarios related to sports management topics such as personnel management or budgeting for an event or organization

Demonstrate an understanding of key concepts related to the field of sport management through written assignments and class discussions
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