MANAGEMENT (MGT)
College of Business Administration
Department Chair:
Thomas Hench
416A Wimberly Hall, 608.785.6661
Professors: Betton, Hench, May, Pena, Ross, Stapleton;
Associate Professor: Secchi;
Assistant Professors: Gullekson, Shabana, Ying; Lecturer: Gillis, G.
Students in the College of Business
Administration must also complete the
college core requirements (36 credits in the common core).
Management Major
(College of Business Administration) — 24
credits – MGT 328, 360, 408; 15 credits from any 300- or
400-level management courses, BUS 305, 405, 415, IS 320 and 330.
Up to three credit hours of outside elective courses may be
approved by the faculty adviser and department chair. At least
nine of the 15 elective credits should be 400-level courses.
Students with interests in special areas – e.g., operations
management, human resources, international management, etc. –
should work closely with their advisers to select classes
accordingly.
MGT 100
Cr. 3
Introduction to Business
Provides framework within which to develop an
appreciation and introductory understanding of the nature of
business and the relationships of the functions of business to
the environment of the American economy in which students shall
assume a major role. May be counted as an elective in the
College of Business Administration. Offered occasionally.
300/400 level management courses are open
only to those students who have been admitted to the business
program and students in business-related programs for which such
a course is specifically required. Exceptions to this policy
may be made only by the College of Business Administration dean.
MGT 300
Cr. 3
Business Communications
The study of the theory of communications is
illustrated and reinforced by many specific applications in
writing sales letters, credit and collection letters, business
reports of various lengths and kinds, and messages to employees,
shareholders, and the public. The resume, job application
letter, and the interview are also studied. Oral presentations
are an integral part of the course. Prerequisite: junior
standing. Offered occasionally.
MGT 303
Cr. 3
Principles of Labor — Management Relations
Instruction develops the necessary perspective
and the theoretical and legal structure necessary to an
understanding of current public policy and contemporary issues
in labor-management relations. The case study approach is used
in studying current applications. Prerequisite: junior standing.
Offered occasionally.
MGT 308
Cr. 3
Behavior and Theory in Organizations
This course provides an introduction to
Organizational Behavior and Theory. Emphasis is on key
individual and group level behavioral processes deemed essential
for effective management. They include perception, motivation,
communication, and group dynamics. In addition, the course
covers some basic concepts of organizational theory such as
organizational structure and design, organizational culture, and
strategy and goals. Prerequisite: junior standing. Offered Fall
and Spring.
MGT
328
Cr. 3
Principles of Management Thought
This course focuses on the principles and
evolution of “management” thinking from the advent of the
industrial revolution to the present in an increasingly
integrated and interconnected world. This course places
management thought in a larger political, economic, social and
temporal context. It focuses on how management thinking and its
accompanying frameworks and practices must evolve and change if
it is to make contemporary organizational life creative,
effective and sustainable. (This course should be taken in the
first semester of admission to the business program and
management major.) Prerequisite: junior standing. Offered Fall,
Spring.
MGT 360
Cr. 3
Global Perspective on Business
This course focuses on managing in today’s
increasingly interconnected world. Special attention is paid to
creating and maintaining sustainable business practices across
international boundaries, including building socially,
economically and environmentally effective organizations in a
culturally diverse world. Prerequisite: junior standing. Offered
Fall, Spring.
MGT 370
Cr. 3
Management of Information Technology
An examination of issues that both MIS and
non-MIS managers face in managing information and information
technology within an organization. The course is a topics course
and will, of necessity, vary from semester to semester to stay
current with the technological changes which managers would face
in the workplace. Topics include strategic uses of information
technology, technological trends and their implications, the
relationship between organizational structure and information
technology, evaluation of the effectiveness of information
technology, end user computing, management of new and existing
systems and ethical and international issues. Prerequisite:
junior standing. Offered occasionally.
MGT 385
Cr. 3
Human Resources: Employment
Examines principles and practices involved in
recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring and developing
employees. Separations, transfers, promotions, EEO
considerations, privacy and affirmative action are considered.
Prerequisite: junior standing. Offered occasionally.
MGT 386
Cr. 3
Compensation and Benefits Administration
A comprehensive treatment of issues involved
in compensation and benefits administration. Issues involved are
wage theory, job evaluation, job pricing, types of incentives.
Mandated and voluntary benefits, ERISA, legal issues in
compensation, cost, impact and future of compensation and
benefits administration are also considered. Prerequisite: MGT
385. Offered occasionally.
MGT 393
Cr. 3
Production and Operations Management
This introductory course provides business
students with the processes of creating and disseminating value
in both manufacturing and service operations. The course
includes the theoretical foundations for production and
operations management, as well as how decision-making techniques
aid the manager in creating and delivering value. Global
production and distribution strategies are integrated with
management processes and projects. Topics include the operation
system and processes, the lean and agile enterprise, six sigma,
supply chain management and global logistics. Emerging
information and manufacturing technologies within the global
supply chain are reviewed. Prerequisites: MTH 145, 175; junior
standing. Offered Fall, Spring; occasionally Winter and Summer.
MGT 395
Cr. 3
Management Science I
Introduction to the quantitative models used
in the private and public sectors. Topics include linear
programming, transportation and assignment models, project
planning, basic inventory models, decision theory, queuing
models, and game theory. Prerequisite: MGT 393. Offered Fall,
Spring.
MGT 398
Cr. 3
Total Quality Management
A course designed to explore the nature of
company-wide quality management. This course critically analyzes
the work of quality pioneers such as Deming, Juran, Crosby,
Taguchi, etc. Focus is on the functional integration and
implementation of quality management in manufacturing and
services: management of process quality, quality function
deployment, strategic quality planning, human resource and
information system management to ensure quality, measures of
quality performance, Japanese approach to quality, and internal
and external customer focus for continuous improvement.
Prerequisites: MTH 145; junior standing. Pass/Fail grading.
Offered occasionally.
MGT 399
Cr. 3
Project Management: Planning, Scheduling,
Executing, and Controlling
This course emphasizes the use of special
tools and techniques in management to accomplish the
organizational mission through better control and use of
existing resources. It explores ways to harness cross-functional
synergy in an organization to successfully plan, schedule,
execute and control projects. Prerequisites: MTH 145; junior
standing. Offered occasionally.
MGT 400
Cr. 1-3
Management Forum
Emphasis will be on examination and study of
current management issues. Topics will vary from semester to
semester. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Repeatable for
credit — maximum six. Offered occasionally.
MGT 408
Cr. 3
The Global Responsibility of Business
This course considers the turbulent
environment in which organizations function and examines
specific dimensions of this environment including the evolution
of a framework of global human rights, the impacts of economic
and social globalization, the convergence of global approaches
to sustainability and the changing ideological and political
frameworks affecting business. It will also examine matters of
global corporate social responsibility and social
entrepreneurship. Prerequisite: senior standing. Offered Fall,
Spring.
MGT 412
Cr. 3
Emergent Leadership and Team Development
This course focuses on key differences between
management and leadership and the importance of leadership in
the context of effective team building. The emphasis is on
organizational change and the role that leadership plays in
providing direction for this change. Collaborative and
non-hierarchical strategies that facilitate team building will
be discussed as an alternative to top-down behavior. The course
will provide opportunities to think deeply and systematically
about the development of leadership skills and the creativity,
initiative and motivation critical to that development.
Prerequisite: senior standing. Offered occasionally.
MGT 428
Cr. 3
Management of Technology and Innovation
This course focuses on the management of
technological innovation in organizations. It examines how the
design of an organization’s structure, internal processes,
reward systems and staffing, etc., can enhance the
organization’s capability for technological innovation. A
combination of lectures, case analyses and independent readings
will be used. Prerequisite: senior standing. Offered
occasionally.
MGT 430
Cr. 3
Comparative Management Systems
Comparative management is concerned primarily
with studying the similarities and differences among nations in
the context of management systems in different countries. The
focus of the course is on the interaction between sociopolitical
and cultural environments and management systems. This course
seeks to encourage future managers in a global environment to
think in a global context and be knowledgeable about the
cultures, political economies and business practices of other
countries. Prerequisite: senior standing. Offered Fall, Spring.
MGT 431
Cr. 3
Business, Labor, and Human Rights
The course examines the impact of
globalization, trade regulation and international conventions,
agreements and law on human rights, specifically in the context
of business and labor rights. Topics include the emergence of
post-war human rights structures; the impact of the
International Labor Office on Human Rights in the workplace; the
establishment of economic, social, and cultural rights in the
context of business; the growing conflicts between trade
agreements and national policy and emerging partnerships between
business organizations and international agencies. Managerial
and trade union responses to emerging human rights issues are
considered. Prerequisite: senior standing. Offered Spring.
MGT 449
Cr. 3
Administrative Policy Determination
An integrated case study approach to the
variables in management policy determination at the overall
level. The course will operationally apply the principles,
concepts, and methods of the College of Business Administration
core requirements to both actual and simulated case situations.
May be taken only in the semester of graduation. Prerequisites:
satisfactory completion of the core requirements; senior
standing. Offered Fall, Spring, Summer.
MGT 450
Cr. 1-6
College of Business Administration
Internship
The internship program as conceived and
implemented is an unusual program designed to provide an
opportunity for students in the College of Business
Administration at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse to
participate in an approved program with a cooperating business,
governmental or civic organization for usually 15 weeks of their
undergraduate work. For additional information, see internship
description under the College of Business Administration
heading. Repeatable for credit. Pass/Fail grading. Prerequisite:
senior standing. Offered Fall, Spring, Summer.
MGT 452
Cr. 1-6
College of Business Administration
International Internship
The internship program as conceived and
implemented is an unusual program designed to provide an
opportunity for students in the College of Business
Administration at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse to
participate in an approved program with a cooperating business,
governmental or civic organization for usually 15 weeks of their
undergraduate work. Credit for international internships can be
received for only internships classified as internationally
related internships by Career Services. For additional
information, see internship description under the College of
Business Administration heading. Prerequisite: senior standing.
Repeatable for credit. Pass/Fail grading. Offered Fall, Spring,
Summer.
MGT 483
Cr. 3
Corporate Training
The course examines principles and practices
of employee training and Human Resource Development in business
organizations. Students learn to analyze training needs and
objectives at the organizational and job level. They also learn
about various instructional methods used in business.
Differences between formal training programs and on-the-job
training will be considered. Methods for evaluating training
programs will also be discussed. The relationship between
corporate training and other organizational and human resource
management goals will also be examined. Prerequisite: senior
standing. Offered occasionally.
MGT 484
Cr. 3
International Human Resource Management
The course examines human resource practices
in countries other than the United States. These practices are
compared and contrasted with common U.S. practices, and
implications for multinational corporations are considered.
Specific topics may include: staffing, recruiting, overseas
transfers, performance appraisal, compensation, and equal
employment opportunity issues. Prerequisite: junior standing.
Offered occasionally.
MGT 485
Cr. 3
Collective Bargaining
Nature, scope and historical background of
collective bargaining in the U.S. Labor– Management sector
covering organization of the parties for bargaining, procedures,
strategies, issues. Analysis of contents of labor agreements.
Prerequisite: senior standing. Offered occasionally.
MGT 486
Cr. 3
Human Resources: Current Issues and
Policies
An in-depth investigation of selected current
trends and issues of importance in personnel and industrial
relations. An integrative, case-oriented approach to the study
of problems and policy in personnel and industrial relations.
Simulation exercises and case analysis are used in addition to
lecture and student presentations. Prerequisite: senior
standing. Offered occasionally.
MGT 487
Cr. 3
Male/Female Relationships in the Business
Environment
An examination of current managerial issues
with emphasis on the psychological and social barriers which
inhibit the effective performance of individuals in an
organization. The course examines the socialization of men and
women as related to leadership in working organizations and
cultural perceptions of work roles for men and women. The
development of human resource strategies for the attainment of
individual goals also is emphasized. Other topics such as
mentoring in organizations, sexual harassment, benefits issues
(e.g., those under the Family and Medical Leave Act), and
comparable worth in pay also may be considered. Prerequisite:
senior standing. Offered occasionally.
MGT 494
Cr. 3
Business Process Re-engineering
This course shows how to rethink and redesign
business processes in order to achieve dramatic improvements in
critical measures of performance such as cost, quality, service,
and speed. Prerequisite: MGT 393. Offered occasionally.
MGT 499
Cr. 1-3
Independent Study
Individual reading or research under the
guidance of a staff member. Open to selected advanced students
who have excellent records in the department. Registration with
the consent of the student’s regular adviser, the instructor and
the department chairperson. Repeatable for credit — maximum six.
Pass/Fail grading. Offered Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer.