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Leadership Development

In Leadership Development, the learner applies the skills and tools necessary to fulfill his/her role as a modern leader. Each learner will demonstrate the application of: evaluating leadership effectiveness and organization requirements, using individual and group motivation strategies, implementing mission and goals, observing ethical behavior, developing personal leadership style and adaptation, understanding the impact of power, facilitating employee development, coaching, managing change, and resolving conflict effectively.

Purchasing

This course includes an analysis of the purchasing process, a review of purchasing activities, and identification of purchasing problems in modern organizations. Attention is given to the role of purchasing in the organization, supplier selection, negotiation, sourcing issues, inventory management, and quality concerns.

Business Law

Business Law is a survey course which introduces the student to relevant legal issues that affect business today. Students will learn the fundamentals of law from the U.S. Constitution to the Uniform Commercial Code, from Contract Law to Property Law, and will be able to identify the legal basis of various business activities.

Negotiations

This course introduces techniques and skills used in bargaining to maximize a company's profits and competitiveness for both domestic and global concessions. Interpersonal negotiations skills are essential for any person working in the business world. Students will be introduced to an interest based negotiations strategy and to conflict resolution techniques that will prove valuable throughout one's personal and professional life.

Operations Management

This course is designed to acquaint students with the specialized vocabulary and problems encountered in manufacturing management. Tools and techniques for solving production process problems are presented with an emphasis on quality and productivity.

Distribution Management

In this course, students examine the role of warehousing and distribution centers as they relate to business and logistics. They analyze distribution management automation, operations, cost, and safety practices. Upon completion, students will be able to explain the activities and processes associated with the warehousing and movement of inventory throughout the supply chain.

Enterprise Resource Planning & Control

This course will provide the fundamentals of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems concepts, and the importance of integrated information systems in an organization. The focus of this course is on illustrating procurement, production, and sales business processes using ERP software. This course introduces the world of ERP's to future Supply Chain employee's. The understanding of the benefits of technology use within the efficient movement of materials and products is essential in the world of Supply Chain.

Psychology, Introduction to

This course introduces students to some of the major theories and topics of psychology, including the physiological basis of behavior, personality and learning theories, memory, states of consciousness, stress, research methods, intelligence, human development, psychopathology, and social behavior.