MGT 330 , MGT 110

Course Description &Objectives:
This course aims to provide students the necessary knowledge about important Management Skills on many levels personally, interpersonally, and collectively. The course is designed to enable students to manage themselves and relationships with others. It also enables students to develop themselves as leaders within their organizations. It stresses a hands-on approach to improving your management skills. The focus is on developing:

1. Personal Skills: self-awareness; managing stress; solving problems & creativity.
2. Interpersonal Skills: coaching; counseling; supportive communication; gaining power & influence; motivating self & others; managing conflict.
3. Group Skills: empowering & delegating; building teams, conducting meetings and interviews.
4. Communication Skills: making Oral and written presentations.
   Prerequisites:  101 MGT
    
   Credit hours:   3hours
    
    
   Course Learning Outcomes
   Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
5. To increase your understanding of core behavioral principles upon which important management skills are based.
6. To help foster improved competency in several critical management skills.
7. To help prepare you to transfer this learning and improvement to real-life, out-of-class settings.
   Requirements for achieving desired outcomes:
   As your instructor I encourage you to:
8. Participate in class discussions.
9. Work in teams and share the benefit with the class.
10. Be well prepared for class requirements, quizzes, and exams.
     
    -Resources:
11. Text book
12. Whetten, D.A, and Cameron K.S.. Developing Management Skills. 8th edition.Pearson Education, Inc.NJ.
    -Commitment to Ethical Behavior:
    It is understood that each student will be committed to ethical behavior in the course.  It is unethical to:
13. Ask the professor to raise your grades unjustifiably
14. Ask the professor to use a certain type of questions in the examination and leave another type.
15. Ask the professor to grant you a special benefit or status, or override class rules for your sake.
16. Ask the professor to change course requirements or reassign grades among various course requirements.