Education
Graduate Course Listing
The classes listed below are ellective items taken post undergraduate studies. The emphasis was to focus on aquiring additional leadership skills to utilize in my professional career.
- Strategic Management Process - This course introduces students to strategic thinking and provides a framework for the entire M.B.A. program. It takes an executive perspective of general management. The course provides an understanding of the interdependence between the organization and its environment, with a focus on managing organizations in changing environments, maintaining legitimacy with diverse stakeholder groups, providing clear corporate direction, and ensuring the long-term survival and success of the enterprise.
- Managing Organizational Change - This course examines the relationship between business organizations and environmental change, with particular emphasis on the changing dynamics of the ethical, social, and ecological dimensions of the environment. It focuses on the development of learning organizations, structures designed to allow for creativity, and effectiveness in rapidly changing business environments. (Click here for Appendix 12: Learning Tools for Business Transformations). Class utilized textbook Managing Organizational Change by Patrick E. Conner and Linda K. Lake.
- Research Methods and Statistics - This course examines the need for business research in developing sound decisions and policy and covers a range of statistical analysis tools. It explores the scope of business research, scientific reasoning, identifying problem areas, hypothesis formulation, planning for data analysis, and sampling procedures. Topics in statistical analysis include chi-square tests, analysis of variance, regression and correlation, time series, forecasting, and nonparametric methods. Students are required to prepare the outline of a business research report dealing with a particular policy issue.
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