Courses
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- Offered: Fall
This course develops students' verbal and nonverbal workplace communication abilities. Students will learn about and practice many forms of workplace communication both oral and written. Student will learn to communicate clearly and efficiently while doing so in way that motivates others.
- Offered: Fall
The course studies ethics in the workplace and the role of organizational leaders in fostering ethical behavior, including hiring, supervision, termination, and compliance. Students will demonstrate a competency in critical thinking skills to both identify and remedy ethical issues typically encountered in organizational settings and interactions.
- Offered: Winter
Evaluation and assessments are presented as continuous improvement exercises involving employees and/or outside reviewers, vendors, funders, clients and the general public. Students are trained in setting goals, tracking performance, collecting data, making midcourse corrections and analyzing program impact.
- Offered: Winter
This course is designed to help students explore foundational information related to diversity and multiculturalism. Students will learn the importance of understanding cultural and demographic diversity in relation to effective workplace leadership.
- Offered: Summer
The primary emphasis of this course will be the introduction of basic systems thinking fundamentals, i.e. defining a systems perspective about any situation or problem, solving problems with that perspective, describing and modeling a problem, and designing and improving upon system solutions.