Program Description
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) program in
Technology Management provides training in business for students interested
in understanding the working nature of business and the use of technology in
a competitive environment. Courses in the MBA program integrate information
and theories from various disciplines, including technology management,
accounting, economics, finance, marketing, production operations, and
strategic management. The objective of this program is to develop students
into broadly educated business managers and executives who understand the
nature of business as a whole, with the tools and techniques applicable to a
wide variety of business situations.
Graduating students will be able to:
1. Work effectively in teams
2. Sell their ideas
3. Apply theory to understand real practical situations
4. Think "outside the box" and develop novel solutions
5. Integrate the functional department issues into a coherent strategic whole
6. Analyze and synthesize problems
Graduating students will be knowledgeable about:
1. Current international and global issues
2. Ethical and diversity issues
3. Current technology and environmental issues
4. Leading change in an organization
5. Current management trends
Required Courses
Graduate Level 5
ACCT 504 Financial Accounting (3 Credit Hours)
TMGT 501 Project Management (3 Credit Hours)
TMGT 502 Technology Management (3 Credit Hours)
ECON 504 Micro Economics (3 Credit Hours)
ECON 510 Economic & Political Theory (6 Credit Hours)
ECON 505 Macroeconomics (3 Credit Hours)
ECON 640 Global & Domestic Business Environment (6 Credit Hours)
MGMT 504 Organizational Behavior & HR Mgt (6 Credit Hours)
MGMT 506 Production & Operations Management (6 Credit Hours)
MGMT 760 Global Management (6 Credit Hours)
OPRE 640 Applied Statistics (3 Credit Hours)
Required to Graduate: 48 semester credit hours
Course Descriptions
ACCT 504
Financial Accounting (3 Credit Hours)
This course explores the theoretical aspects of corporate finance. The end goal is to provide students with the tools necessary to conduct accurate financial analysis. Students will receive a review of finance issues encountered by all senior managers.
TMGT 501
Project Management (3 semester credit hours)
Reviews traditional project management techniques and project based organizational structures. Special attention is given to the integration of project management with technology and strategic objectives. Organizational issues, project tracking, the project manager, and project management techniques are examined both from the conceptual and the applied aspects. Students will experience computer application software to support and implement project management activities.
TMGT 502 Technology Management (3 semester credit hours)
This course focuses on the integration of IT in key processes, administration, the total cost of ownership of IT, how to use and manage IT tools, and navigating across the shifting waves of never-ending upgrades. Real-world examples of companies making the best of this very expensive component of business are presented. The program is targeted at medium-sized businesses struggling to find a way to assure their precious capital is most wisely invested in information resources.
ECON 504 Micro Economics (3 Credit Hours)
Listed by author and then by
title, the review of contributions made for this subject area includes:
Hume: An
Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
and D. Hartley:
Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty,
and
Expectations;
Helvetius:
Letters of Helvetius,
Addressed to
President Montesquieu,
and M. Saurin,
on Perusing the Manuscript of
The Spirit of Laws.
ECON
505
Macroeconomics
(3 Credit Hours)
Listed by author and
then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area includes:
Ricardo: The Principles of
Political Economy and Taxation; JS Mills:
Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social
Philosophy; and Marx and Engels: Communist Manifesto.
ECON
510
Economic & Political Theory
(6 Credit Hours)
Listed by author and
then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area includes:
Rousseau: The Social Contract or Principles of Political; Jeremy
Bentham;
Defence of Usury;
Smith:
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations;
Malthus:
An Essay on the Principle of
Population; and Jean-Baptiste
Say: Letters to Thomas Malthus on Political Economy and Stagnation of
Commerce.
ECON
640
Global & Domestic Business Environment
(6 Credit Hours)
Listed by author and
then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area includes:
Darwin: The foundations of the Origin of
Species and two essays written in 1842 and 1844; Marx: Wage Labour and
Capital;
Walras (The Mathematical Theory of
Political Economy: Review of Léon Walras, Éléments d'économie politique pure,
Nature, Vol. 40, No. 1036, September 5, p.434-6);
Marshall: Principles of Economics;
Veblen: Theory of Business
Enterprise; Keynes:
Economic Consequences of the Peace; and Fisher:
The Purchasing Power of Money.
MGMT 504 Organizational Behavior & HR Mgt
(6 Credit Hours)
Listed by author and
then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area includes:
Fayol: 14 elements of Administrative
Management; Weber: The Fundamental Concepts of Sociology;
Roethlisberger and Dickson:
Management and the Worker;
McGregor: (Review of work); Maslow:
A Theory of Human Motivation,
Psychological Review, 50, 370-396;
Peters and Waterman: In
Search of Excellence: Lessons from Americas Best Run Companies;
Deal and Kennedy: The New
Corporate Cultures: Revitalizing the Workplace After Downsizing, Mergers, and
Reengineering; and
Putting job candidates to the test - Case Studies - use of employment
tests.
MGMT
506
Production & Operations Management
(6 Credit Hours)
Listed by author and
then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area includes:
Gantt: Gantt Charts; Gilbreths: Applied Motion Study; Yerkes:
Autobiography of Robert Mearns Yerkes;
Lewin: A Dynamic Theory of
Personality (Chapter VIII); Scott: Increasing Human Efficiency
in Business; Fiedler; McClelland: (Review of Achievement Theory); Herzberg:
(Review of 2 Factor Hygiene and Motivation Theory); B.F. Skinner:
Teaching Machines, Science 128:969-977 (1958);
and a review of the following professional articles: Going horizontal - case
studies on process-based organizations - Process Management: A New Leaf
Agribusiness opportunity missions: two case studies of success;
the case study:
A tradition of success: a legacy of business ownership drives tech security
pioneer; the case study:
Profit from pet products - three entrepreneurs find success addressing the
pet market - Business Trends; and the Electronic Records Management on a
Shoestring: Three Case Studies
.
MGMT
760
Global Management
(6 Credit Hours)
Listed by author and
then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area includes:
Pascale and Athos: The Art of Japanese Management
and Applications for American Executives;
Ouchi: Theory Z: How American
Business Can Meet the Japanese Challenge; Deming: (Review of 14
Elements);
and a review of the following professional articles: Thames Water Utilities:
deep water - Case Studies: Change Management at Work; and The Culture of Change:
Case Studies of Improving Schools in Singapore and London Tale of two mergers -
one success, one failure Three stories of self-service success - Case Studies -
McData Corporation, Tally Defense Systems, WellPoint Health Networks Inc The
case against cases: Enron's popularity as a business-school "success story"
raises tough questions about how cases are prepared - Education - Enron Corp.'s
management.
OPRE
640
Applied Statistics
(3 Credit Hours)
Listed by author and
then by title, the review of contributions made for this subject area includes:
Buffa:(Stanford paper in honor of his work); and the following case study:
Quantitative Approach (Buffa); Pythagoras: (Review of the work of the
Pythagoras); and Veblen: Introduction to infinitesimal analysis; and
functions of one real variable.
