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Vaughn College MGT110 (hereinafter, the Course) is the Introduction to Management course delivered by Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology. There is no prerequisite to the Course, but the Course is the prerequisite to Vaughn College MGT210.


Syllabus

Semester Spring 2018
Credits 3
Grading System Letter Grade (see Grading Scale)
Prerequisites None

Instructor

  • Instructor: Gary Ihar
  • Title: Adjunct Instructor
  • Office: virtual
  • Office Hours: Monday -- Friday (9 a.m. -- 9 p.m.); Saturdays and Sunday evenings can be arranged. I also check posts and emails periodically throughout the day.
  • Cell phone: exists
  • E-mail: course messages are preferable

Textbook

Main wikipage: Management by Robbins and Coulter (14th edition)‎‎

Any of four editions: Management 11/E, 12/E, 13/E, or 14/E, Robbins, Stephen P., Coulter, Mary

Course Description

This course serves as an introduction to the discipline of management. It is designed to integrate the accepted theories in the area with real world applications to provide students with the basic knowledge and skills needed for managing others. This course begins with a discussion of the current issues in management and then proceeds to cover the traditional functions of management: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Lecture and class assignments given in the course are intended to help students understand the needs of modern public and private organizations, including emerging national and international trends.

Learning Techniques

Depending on student's choice, this course can be taught using a variety of techniques including:

  • Lecture
  • Text readings
  • Class examples and discussion
  • Case analysis
  • Supplemental articles and readings
  • Problem simulations.

Course Objectives

Course objectives are to:

  1. Identify the principals of managing formal organizations,
  2. Recognize the various challenges faced by today’s managers
  3. Provide examples of organizations engaging in the management functions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling.
  4. Understand both the theory and practice of the art and science of Management
  5. Gain practical, applicable knowledge, through study of real business cases and readings in Management
  6. Think clearly about the concepts and principles that support the Management body of knowledge

Course Outcomes

After successful completion of this course, students will have acquired the ability to:

  1. Work and manage in the environment of formal private or public sector organizations
  2. Address the challenges faced by today’s managers
  3. Engage in the management functions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling.
  4. Apply theory to the practice of the art and science of Management
  5. Apply practical, applicable knowledge gained through study of real business cases and readings in Management
  6. Practice clear thinking about the concepts and principles that support the Management body of knowledge

Course Requirements

All assignments, lectures and examinations are based on comprehension and utilization of concepts and their applications incorporated in the assigned material. Those concepts and applications are represented by glossary terms, which definitions are placed separately on the textbook's pages and at the end of the textbook.

  • Forum-based assignments (14 items, 5% of the course grade). You are required to post some message by the end of each week in order to get full credit. However, the topic questions will emerge again as non-scored on your homework quizzes and as scored on your mid-term or final exams. The non-scored submission will get my detailed feedback. If you do better on the exams than on original forum submission, I will increase your initial grade.
  • Homework quizzes (14 items, 1% of the course grade each) are posted each week. They include scored true-or-false questions and unscored essay-type questions, which are based on forum topics and will become scored questions in the midterm and final exams.
  • Mid-term and final exams (8% of the course grade each) include essay-type questions based on forum topics.

Grading

Course Grade

Grade source Number of items Course grade percentage for a single item Total percentage within the course
Forum-based submissions 14 5% 70%
Homework quiz 1% 14%
Examinations 2 8% 16%
Total 100%

Grading Scale

Grade Numeric Value Standard
A 90-100 Excellent
B+ 85-89 Good
B 80-84
C+ 75-79 Average
C 70-74
D 60-69 Minimal passing
F Below 60 Failure

Incomplete Grades

Requests for Incomplete grades must be made in writing before the course ends, and after the mid-term has been passed.

Course Schedule (subject to change)

The table below is created to accommodate those students who use various editions of the textbook:

Week # Chapter topics for every week Chapter numbers
14/E or 13/E 12/E 11/E
Week 1 Planning the course No chapter is assigned
Week 2 Management, organizations 1 1 1
Week 3 Decisions, decision making 2 6 7
Week 4 Managerial constraint, external environment, organizational culture, global environment, diversity, managing diversity, social responsibility, ethics 3‑6 2‑5 2‑5
Week 5 Change, innovation 7 7 6
Week 6 Planning 8 8 8
Week 7 Strategy 9 9 9
Week 8 Organizational structure 10‑11 11‑12 10‑11
Week 9 Human resources 12 13 12
Week 10 Work teams 13 14 13
Week 11 Communication 14 16 15
Week 12 Individual behavior 15 15 14
Week 13 Motivation 16 17 16
Week 14 Leadership 17 18 17
Week 15 Monitoring and controlling 18 10 18‑19

Coursework