BUSN 270 - Business Management and Leadership

5 Credits

Examines the managerial task, with emphasis on leadership. Includes coverage of the major management functions of planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling. Covers decision making, human behavior and motivation, leadership roles and styles, the communication process, team building and group interactions, and the outside forces affecting today’s leaders. Uses interactive class activities and case analysis.

Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Winter Online
Designed to Serve General business program students as well as other professional-technical program students.
Active Date 20240401T16:30:03

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 32
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
ProfTech Course Yes
Restricted Elective Yes
Course Outline

The nature of management and leadership
Planning an controlling
Making effective decisions
Motivation and human behavior
Managing conflict and change
Communication, oral and written
Leadership styles, traits, and skills
Performance appraisal
Discipline and awards
Supervising protected groups
Managing a unionized work group
Corporate and managerial ethics

Student Learning Outcomes
Identify preferred management styles through a process of self-reflection and evaluation and apply this knowledge to business situations to achieve the desired management outcome.

Practice effective management and leadership skills via hypothetical business situations.

Describe the skills and abilities needed for creating and managing organizational change in hypothetical business situations and case study examples.

Facilitate managerial decision making by employing industry standard decision-making models.

Analyze personal leadership strengths and weaknesses.

Describe the ways a leader can motivate employees or others in an organization.