This course provides information about how people interact in organizations. Topics to be studied include individuals, interpersonal communication, decision making, group dynamics, human needs and motivation, leadership, ethical considerations, quality of work life, managing conflict and initiating change. Transfer credit: CSU; UC.

This course provides a multidisciplinary examination of how culture, society, economic systems, legal, international, political, financial institutions, and human behavior interact to affect a business organization’s policy and practices within the U.S. and a global society. This course focuses on how these influences impact the primary areas of business including: organizational structure and design; leadership; human resource management; organized labor practices; marketing; organizational communication; technology; entrepreneurship; legal, accounting, and financial practices; the stock and securities market; and therefore how they affect a business’ ability to achieve its organizational goals. Transfer credit: CSU; UC.

This course examines the basic management functions of a business organization and middle management’s responsibilities in planning, organizing, directing, controlling, coordinating, and executing the organizations’ goals and objectives. Techniques of decision-making with emphasis on recent advances in areas directly related to management are also introduced. The class introduces the fundamentals of modern management as practiced today, particularly the ways in which the management practices evolved with the rise of large corporations in the late 1800s and into the twenty-first century. Transfer credit: CSU; UC.