Graduate Courses for Management and Organization (BUMO)

Schedule of Classes: Fall | Winter | Spring | Summer
(Only current and next semester available)

BUMO 700 Motivating and Managing Effective Performance (3 credits)
Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 760 or BUMO 700. Formerly BMGT760.
Focuses on knowledge and special competencies needed to motivate enhanced performance and manage performance processes to achieve desired outcomes. Considers critical issues such as shaping performance vision, creating a high performance culture, developing performance architectures, configuring reward systems, providing feedback, and encouraging creativity and innovation.

BUMO 702 Managerial Staffing (3 credits)
Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 783 or BUMO 702. Formerly BMGT783.
Aimed at increasing an understanding of the legal, technical, and practical issues involved in organizational staff forecasting, and hiring and termination procedures.

BUMO 704 Problems and Applications in Human Resource Management (3 credits)
Prerequisite: BUSI663. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT761 or BUMO704. Formerly BMGT761.
Applications in the design, implementation, and evaluation of human resource management programs. Experiential learning activities and simulations.

BUMO 712 Leadership Development (3 credits)
Prerequisite: BUSI662. For BMGT majors only.
Focuses on developing skills to inspire, influence and organize others to accomplish key goals. Building on leadership theories, course includes assessment & role-playing activities, discussions, cases, and exercises to assess and develop personal capabilities.

BUMO 714 Executive Power and Negotiation (3 credits)
Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 764 or BUMO 714. Formerly BMGT764.
Negotiations knowledge and skills through a series of readings (the use of power during bargaining exchanges, principles of effective listening, and bargaining strategies and tactics) and through the opportunity to practice negotiating.

BUMO 720 Organizational Change (3 credits)
Prerequisite: BUSI 662. For BMGT majors only.
Develops the fundamental change knowledge and skills of MBA students who plan to work with organizations as change agents, whether internally as managerial employees or externally as outside consultants. Draws on literatures from organizational behavior, human resource management and strategic management to identify models as prescriptions of change.

BUMO 722 Organizational Behavior: A Multicultural Perspective (3 credits)
Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 765 or BUMO 722. Formerly BMGT765.
Study of organizational behavior from a multicultural perspective.

BUMO 725 Networks and Influence (2 credits)
For MBA majors only.
Focuses on networks, social capital, and influence as they relate to operating effectively in organizations. It draws heavily on emerging literature related to social capital and networks, but also integrates concepts from persuasion, communication, and motivation literatures to aid your efforts to build a successful track record for yourself and your organization.

BUMO 727 The Entrepreneur and the Entrepreneurial Team (3 credits)
Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of department. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 781 or BUMO 727. Formerly BMGT781.
The entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial team: the entrepreneur and the team as it relates to innovation, change, power, and risk-taking. Entrepreneurs and their teams from a variety of different firms present and discuss their views on leadership.

BUMO 730 Corporate Venturing (3 credits)
Prerequisite: completion of MBA core or permission of department. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 782 or BUMO 730. Formerly BMGT782.
This course explores the skills, techniques, and strategies that are required to instill entrepreneurial behavior in large complex organizations. Students study presentations from real executives and business cases wherein creativity, innovation, fast descision-making, and trial and error implementation have been applied successfully.

BUMO 732 New Venture Creation (3 credits)
Prerequisite: completion of MBA core requirements or permission of department. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 780 or BUMO 732. Formerly BMGT780.
Creating new ventures, including evaluating the entrepreneurial team, the opportunity and financing requirements. Skills, concepts, attitudes and know-how relevant for creating and building a venture; and preparation of a business plan. These approaches are not limited to new or growing enterprises.

BUMO 734 Venture Capital for Investors and Entrepreneurs (3 credits)
For MBA majors only. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 786 or BUMO 734. Formerly BMGT786.
A comprehensive course on private equity investing in entrepreneurial companies and raising capital by such high-growth firms. Topics include: sources of private equity, evaluation of deals, the due diligence process, deal structuring, pricing and valuation, legal issues, exit strategies, and key to raising venture capital. Venture capitalists and CEOs of venture-funded companies are frequent guest speakers.

BUMO 743 Technology Transfer Commercialization Strategies (3 credits)
For MBA majors only. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 785 or BUMO 743. Formerly BMGT785.
Viewing technology as a strategic resource of the firm, students develop an understanding of the processes, risks, and rewards of technology commercialization. Student teams are organized to review and select a technological innovation and then determine its commercial viability in the market place.

BUMO 744 Creation of High Potential Ventures (3 credits)
For MBA majors only. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 787 or BUMO 744. Formerly BMGT787.
This course focuses on the real life experiences of high profile technology entrepreneurs. Guest entrepreneurs and book review reveal patterns of personal preparation, strategic decision-making, and action that have produced ventures with high value-added and significant regional and national impact.

BUMO 748 Business Plan Review (3 credits)
Repeatable to 06 credits. Formerly BMGT796.
Evaluation of real business plans submitted to the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship. Practicing venture capitalist and professors focus on business plan critique and writing skills, venture capitalist screening practices, and the structure of electronic commerce. Past business plan reviews are analyzed according to the business model, target market, competitive advantages/threats, stage of development, management team and financial status. Real investment decisions are made on the basis of student recommendations. Subject companies are contacted and evaluated.

BUMO 751 Implementing Strategy: Organizing to Compete (3 credits)
Prerequisite: completion of the MBA core requirements or permission of department. Corequisite: BUSI 690. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 767 or BUMO 751. Formerly BMGT767.
Organizational dynamics of competitive advantage. Impact of alternative organizational structures, planning and control systems, human resource management practices, and executive leadership styles on the implementation of archetypically different strategies.

BUMO 752 Strategic Growth for Emerging Companies (3 credits)
For MBA majors only. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 791 and BUMO 752. Formerly BMGT791.
Explores the key elements of mastering the move from being a successful small company to achieving industry significance. Supplemented by readings, video and guest speakers, the course highlights the application of practical lessons leading to strategic growth and subsequentemergence as a player.

BUMO 754 Global Strategy (3 credits)
Corequisite: BUSI 690. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 795 or BUMO 754. Formerly BMGT795.
The problems and policies of international business enterprise at the management level. Management of a multinational enterprise as well as management within foreign units. The multinational firm as a socio-econometric institution. Cases in comparative management.

BUMO 756 Industry and Competitor Analysis (3 credits)
Recommended: BUSI 690. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: BMGT 792 or BUMO 756. Formerly BMGT792.
This industry and competitor analysis seminar provides students with the conceptual framework and analytical tools for understanding the dynamics of industry structure and how competitors actually interact in the marketplace. An understanding of the dynamics of competition and industry evolution is an important input in the development of an effective competitive strategy.

BUMO 758 Special Topics in Management and Organization (2-3 credits)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 09 credits if content differs. Formerly BMGT798.
Selected advanced topics in the various fields of graduate study in management and organization.

BUMO 759 Independent Study in Management and Organization (1-6 credits)
1 semester hours. Repeatable to 06 credits if content differs. Formerly BMGT708.
Independent study for Masters students in management and organization.