Management

• Students learn that law provides the framework, stability, and protection that enable businesses to function and flourish.
• Requires students to solve problems to increase analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Students examine the U.S. Constitution as the starting point for understanding the domestic context of U.S. businesses.
• Understand the importance of keeping up with laws and regulations that might affect their future businesses.
• Understand the basic principles of international business law, examine the interaction of the U.S. trade laws with the GATT/WTO, and learn the importance of crafting contracts that include, at the very least, provisions covering arbitration, choice of law and forum, choice of currency, and choice of language.
• Understand the fiduciary obligations owed by principals and agents to one another, to their companies, and to society. They also learn that ethical lapses by organizations and their members often lead directly to breaches of the law, civil and criminal.
• Understand Constitutional law and employment law issues dealing with diversity.

• Demonstrate understanding of the human resource management process and its strategic contributions to business performance.
• Design an effective performance management system to ensure the maximum utilization and development of every employee’s skills, abilities, knowledge, and interests.
• Design a compensation system to attract, retain and motivate maximally productive employees; including the uses, applicability, and advantages of incentive-based pay at the individual, group and organizational levels.
• Develop appropriate systems and procedures for employee relations, such as manager/employee counseling, grievances, discipline, dispute resolution.
• Incorporate all relevant employment and labor laws, regulations, customs and practices in business decisions

• Perform country analysis and determine the potential for products and services in non-US countries.
• Identify, consider the impact of, disparate cultures, values, and behaviors on how one would design management systems (including motivation, organizational design, incentive systems and leadership styles).
• Identify and consider the impact of foreign trade issues, including the role of international organizations/trading blocks, foreign currency, and government regulations, on a firm’s operations.
• Consider the domestic and international issues involved with product development, distribution, promotion and pricing.
• Identify and discuss the different strategic approaches that are being used by firms to develop competitive advantages internationally.
• Identify and discuss the different types of strategic alliances and the management challenges they present.

• To possess an understanding of the analytical models necessary to develop a sustainable competitive advantage.
• To understand how to implement a strategy as intended throughout an organization by shaping the tools and concepts of the human resource management, organizational behavior and management
• Globalization
• Corporate Social responsibility. Given that an organization’s top executives also have ultimate responsibility for the consequences of a firm’s activities, students need to understand the debate concerning the proper role of the firm in society.