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Courses TaughtBUSINESS COMMUNICATION: COURSE DESCRIPTION Managers increasingly cite the ability to handle communications at work effectively as central to business success. This course develops that essential workplace skill and its practical application through active learning and feedback. Students use strategic approaches to achieve interpersonal, written, and oral competence and confidence, and direct these tools toward their individual interests and progress. Situations covered include informational and persuasive messages, good and bad news messages, audience, style, team collaboration, technology/graphic communication, gender/intercultural communication, career building, interviewing, listening, meetings, and ethics. GENDER AND WORK (SENIOR SEMINAR): COURSE DESCRIPTION The Department of Labor estimates that women will be the majority of U.S. workers soon. This demographic shift presents fundamental implications for the work lives of both men and women. This Seminar has been developed in response to student request for further understanding of this contemporary issue, and support in building relevant practical skills. It covers demographics and trends, gender equity, stumbling blocks, success strategies, and career management. Topics include workplace 2000, gender and style/communication, gender and leadership/management, “The Glass Ceiling,” sexual harassment, and work-life balance. MANAGERIAL COMMUNICATION (GRADUATE): COURSE DESCRIPTION Studies consistently report the importance of communication to business success, and managers frequently correlate communications proficiency with career satisfaction and progress. This course builds that ability so central to managers as they pursue goals and objectives. Students target business situations related to their own interests, and direct practical tools toward advancing them. Strategic communication is learned as a foundational management competence instrumental in heightening performance. It is applied to key managerial arena including career building, coaching, crises, diversity/multi-culture, ethical communication, giving feedback, good vs. bad news, impression management, informing vs. persuading, interpersonal communication, media relations, teamwork, and written and oral presentation. The course is carefully constructed to build knowledge, skill, perception, and comfort important to student accomplishment in this and future classes, and as practitioners in the workplace. It is a core graduate level course; proficiency in elements of style (grammar, punctuation, spelling, and formatting) and expression are expected. The course syllabus and Study Guide are designed as resources to support your progress throughout. ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY AND BEHAVIOR: COURSE DESCRIPTION This course provides principles, applications, and tools basic to effective management of organizational behavior today. The areas it covers, and skills it builds, are consistently cited as central to contemporary workplace success and satisfaction. Topics include change, coaching, communication, conflict, decision- making, diversity, delegation/empowerment, feedback, globalization, goal setting, interviewing, leadership, motivation, organizational culture, perception, performance assessment, office politics, stress, and teamwork. Contemporary organizational behavior seeks to achieve the ultimate goal of sustained high performance for organizations and their employees. The course presents current strategies and techniques organizations use to meet the challenges and opportunities that goal presents. Organizations seek to maximize performance in an ever-evolving, multicultural, competitive, transparent, and international environment. Workers are increasingly educated and expectant, and external stakeholders are increasing alert. Individual, group, and organizational dynamics and processes are addressed through active learning. Essential interpersonal skills are inventoried and developed. Real world scenarios are simulated. Cases are analyzed. Your syllabus and Study Guide are designed as resources to support your progress throughout, and at work. PERSPECTIVES OF BUSINESS AND SOCIETY: COURSE DESCRIPTION This 4-credit course is a dynamic introduction to contemporary American business within its changing social context. It infuses current events in exploring the actions and environments of business, origins of our economic systems and related public policies, and key issues facing business and society: affirmative action, changing social contract, civic engagement, community relations, consumers, diversity, downsizing, ecology, education, ethics, globalization, media/communication, social responsibility, technology, and work/family. Topics include: · Historic, political, economic, cultural, and ethical foundations of business’ social role. · Corporate stakeholders, and business response. · The role of government in business; the corporation and public policy. · Social issues facing modern business. · Business in the competitive, diverse, and growing international arena. · Managing and controlling the social performance of business. This Gen. Ed. core course is designed to build knowledge and skills important to your success and satisfaction in your classes, and as you pursue your career. Your syllabus is designed as a resource to support your progress. PRINCIPLES OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS MANAGEMENT: COURSE DESCRIPTION The course provides background, principles, and tools basic to contemporary arts management. It presents the theory and practice of managers leading, planning, organizing, and optimizing people and work in today’s complex, changing world in which creative, editorial, economic, and environmental factors intersect. It covers key areas of “Management 2000” important to contemporary arts: communication, conflict management, decision-making, diversity, ethics, fundraising, leadership, marketing/promotion, quality, service, stakeholders, staffing, and teamwork. It is carefully constructed to build knowledge and skills important to your success and satisfaction in this and future classes, and as you pursue your career at work. Your course syllabus and Study Guide are designed as resources to support your progress throughout. ONE CREDIT COURSES: CAREER BUILDING INTERPERSONAL WORKPLACE SKILLS WOMEN IN BUSINESS OTHER: COOPERATIVE EDUCATION INDEPENDENT STUDY Links to Ramapo Web sites Online Catalog |
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