| MIE 201 | Introduction to Business Processes | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Cross-functional treatment of major activities of business, such as product design, distribution, production, and marketing. Description of specific tasks, via lectures and case studies, in support of major business activities. Interactions among various functional areas of business. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| MIE 235 | Topics in Leadership Seminar | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: Park Scholar Recipient | ||
| Introduction to leadership, self-awareness, interpersonal needs, attitudes, cognitive style, values, ethics and values. Listening, communicating, interviewing, self-efficacy, empowerment, time and stress management, solving problems creatively, motivation, giving feedback and developing others. Team building and group dynamics. A history of leadership research, leadership concepts, characteristics, and principles. | ||
| MIE 300 | Business Career Planning | 1(1-0-0) F |
| Preq: College of Management Majors must have passed Software Applications Proficiency Requirement | ||
| Integration of work values, career interests, and skills and corporate environments and career fields related to business management. Development of proactive plans and skills to enhance marketability for placement into professional career paths inbusiness. Minimal fee assessed to cover cost of career tests administered during course. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| MIE (BUS) 305 | Legal and Regulatory Environment | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: College of Management Majors must have passed Software Applications Proficiency Requirement | ||
| Introduction to contract, tort, property, and agency law, the judicial system, common law, statutory law, and constitutional law. Review and discussion of the major statutes affecting business including antitrust, securities, employment, labor, environmental, international, and product safety laws. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| MIE 310 | Introduction to Entrepreneurship | 3(3-0-0) F, S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Introduction to planning, formation, and management of entrepreneurial ventures. Fundamental business concepts and managerial skills applied to entrepreneurial ventures. Course projects support experiential learning of critical skills. Some individual off-campus travel is required. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| MIE 311 | Entrepreneurship Skills | 3(3-0-0) F, S |
| Preq: Sophomore standing | ||
| Identification, understanding of practice of skills necessary for entrepreneurial success including networking, negotiation, leadership, presentation, and resource management. Examine characteristics of successful entrepreneurs through the use of articles, case studies, and individual student research and presentations on the traits, styles, and attributes of successful entrepreneurs. The course supports self-assessment with tools such as personality profiles and communication style profiles. Some individual off-campus travel is required. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| MIE 330 | Human Resource Management | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: BUS 201, Sophomore standing; College of Management Majors must have passed Software Applications Proficiency Requirement | ||
| The systematic principles for managing the human resource component of organizations. Topics include: environmental influences on planning, recruitment, and selection; managing workforce diversity; developing effectiveness and enhancing productivity; compensation, benefits, and security; and strengthening employee-management relations. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| MIE 335 | Organizational Behavior | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: 9 hrs. of social science or 6 hours of social science plus BUS 201; College of Management Majors must have passed Software Applications Proficiency Requirement | ||
| Survey of contemporary managerial applications for managing people in modern organizations. Topics include: motivation, group dynamics, team development, ethics, communications, organizational politics, leadership, power, organizational development, organizational design and structure. Current managerial issues include total quality management and technology management. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| MIE 410 | Entrepreneurship | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: BUS 305; BUS 320; BUS 360; BUS 370 | ||
| Introduction to planning, formation, and management of entrepreneurial ventures. The course is designed for Business and Accounting majors including those entering the Entrepreneurship Concentration. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| MIE 411 | Managing the Growth Venture | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: BUS 305; BUS 320; BUS 360; BUS 370 | ||
| Managing a growth venture with emphasis on entrepreneurial planning in the dynamic context of rapidly growing ventures and the development of managerial skills necessary for successful leadership in high growth ventures. Fundamental concepts, issues and skills are taught through an integrated combination of readings, lectures, discussions, cases analyses, and applied project with a local venture. Students need to provide their own transportation to off-campus sites. | ||
| MIE 412 | Finance and Accounting for Entrepreneurs | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: BUS 310; BUS 311 ; Junior standing | ||
| Financial planning for new ventures including financial reporting conventions and projection of critical financial amounts for new ventures. Introduction to fundamental accounting and finance concepts applied in the context of entrepreneurial ventures. Topics include projection of revenues, expenses, capital expenditures, cash flows, and balance sheet amounts; and the creation of pro-forma financial statements. Individual student projects integrate financial projections and pro-forma financial statements with the preparation of a complete business plan. Some individual off-campus travel is required. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| MIE 413 | New Venture Planning | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: BUS 310 and BUS 311 or BUS Majors or ACC Majors, Junior standing | ||
| Developing the business plan for a new venture and the entrepreneurial process of executing the first phases of new venture creation. Topics include idea conception, entrepreneurship, business planning, market research, entrepreneurial opportunitiesand strategies. Emphasis is placed on high growth business opportunities. The final deliverable is a complete business plan for a high growth venture and formal presentation of the plan to mock investors. Some individual off-campus travel is required. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| MIE 416 | The Legal Dynamics of Entrepreneurship | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: BUS 305; BUS 320; BUS 360; BUS 370 | ||
| Overview of important legal and regulatory issues facing entrepreneurs and start-up entities including legal structure of the organization, intellectual property protection, human resource requirements, product liability, and risk management. | ||
| MIE 417 | Business Opportunity Analysis | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: BUS 305; BUS 320; BUS 360; BUS 370 | ||
| Issues and management processes related to the identification of new business opportunities with emphasis on commercializing new technologies. Students will analyze and develop individual plans for commercialization of a new technology or other innovation. New venture formation is the primary focus, but the processes and skills students develop are relevant to new product introductions by existing firms. | ||
| MIE 418 | Social Entrepreneurship Practicum | 3(3-0-0) S |
| Preq: MIE 413 | ||
| Application of entrepreneurship skills and knowledge to plan a social entrepreneurial venture envisioned by the student. This course is a capstone course for the Minor in Entrepreneurship and the Concentration in Entrepreneurship. The deliverablesinclude an evaluation of the venture and a formal presentation including a summary of work completed and the implications of the work for each student's project. Students need to provide their own transportation to off-campus sites. | ||
| MIE 419 | Entrepreneurship Practicum | 3(1-7-0) F, S |
| Preq: New Venture Planning (BUS 413); Finance and Accounting for Entrepreneurs (BUS 412) ; Junior standing | ||
| Application of entrepreneurship skills and knowledge to plan an entrepreneurial venture envisioned by the student. This course is the capstone course for the Minor in Entrepreneurship. The final deliverable includes an evaluation of the project and a formal presentation that includes a summary of the work completed and the implications of that work each student's project. Some individual off-campus travel is required. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| MIE 431 | Compensation: Pay Systems | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: MIE 330 | ||
| Direct compensation philosophy, strategy, and policy. Merit pay, individual, and group incentive plans. Legal, regulatory, economic, and strategic issues affecting direct compensation. Strategies for developing an internally consistent and marketcompetitive pay structure to enhance organizational performance. Pay for international and contingent workers. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| MIE 432 | Industrial Relations | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: EC 201, BUS 330 | ||
| The role of collective bargaining in the labor market. Determinants of the pattern of union membership today and its growth rate. The objectives and tactics of both labor and management within public policy guidelines. Analysis of the impact of unions on job security, productivity, and compensation. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| MIE 433 | Compensation: Benefits | 3(3-0-0) F, S |
| Preq: MIE 330 | ||
| Legally mandated benefits including Social Security, Medicare, Workers' Compensation, and Unemployment Insurance. Discretionary benefits including pensions, health insurance, paid time off, and flexible benefits. Employer benefit policies and their role in total compensation. Attracting, retaining, motivation, and retiring workers. Differences in benefits across industries, occupations, and company size. International variation in the use of employee benefits. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| MIE 434 | Compensation Systems | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: BUS 330 | ||
| Compensation philosophy, strategy, and policy. Earnings, individual and group incentive plans, voluntary and mandated benefits. Legal, regulatory, economic, and strategic issues affecting compensation and benefits. Strategies for developing the structure and level of compensation to enhance organizational performance. | ||
| MIE 435 | Leadership and Management | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: BUS 330 | ||
| Development of leadership and management skills for organizational settings. Self-awareness: interpersonal needs, attitudes toward change; cognitive styles, ethics and values; listening; communicating; interviewing; time and stress management; creativity and managing creativity. Team building and group dynamics. Leadership and followership: theory and case studies (Churchill, Antigone; Henry V; Machiavelli); the use of power and authority; women and leadership the use of language in leadership embodiment of leadership traits; effective traits and characteristics of great leaders. | ||
| MIE 436 | Training, Development and Performance Management | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: BUS 330 | ||
| Training, development and performance management functions in organizations. Needs assessment, legal issues, training program design, learning, training methods, transfer of training, effectiveness and utility of training programs, executive development, criteria development for performance appraisal, validation, instrumentation, sources, accuracy, and feedback. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| MIE 438 | Staffing | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: BUS 330 | ||
| Staffing of contemporary organizations including strategic and environmental influences on: HR planning, job analysis, measurement, recruitment, assessment and selection, decision making, employment, and termination. Considerable emphasis on employment and labor recruitment, assessment and selection, decision making, employment, and termination. Considerable emphasis on employment and labor legislation. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| MIE 480 | Business Policy and Strategy | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: BUS 305, 320, 360, BUS(ST) 350 | ||
| Comprehensive analysis of administrative policy-making from the point of view of the general manager. Integration of perspectives from marketing, finance, and other functional areas of management. Use of case analyses and written reports to develop decision making skills. | ||
| Course Offerings: fall | ||
| MIE 483 | Entrepreneurship | 3(3-0-0) F,S |
| Preq: Junior standing | ||
| Elements and application of the entrepreneurial process. Entrepreneurship, business planning, entrepreneurial opportunities and strategies, structuring and financing a venture, managing growth and risk, and intrapreneurship. Development of business plan. | ||
| MIE 495 | Special Topics in MIE | 1-6 Other |
| Preq: Consent of instructor | ||
| Presentation of material normally not available in regular course offerings, or offering of new courses on a trial basis. | ||
| MIE 498 | Independent Study in MIE | F,S,SUM1,SUM2 |
| Detailed investigation of topics of particular interest to advanced undergraduates under faculty direction on a tutorial basis. Credits and content determined by caculty member in consultation with Department Head. | ||