The following courses, numbered 7000-9999, are offered for graduate credit. Courses numbered 0900-6999, which are offered for undergraduate credit only, may be found in the Undergraduate Bulletin. For interpretation of numbering system, signs and abbreviations, see University Courses.
Prereq: B A 7040. Facets of workplace diversity including cultural diversity, new generations of workers, and family structures; alternative career logics; work configurations emerging from new technologies. (Y)
Prereq: B A 7040. For any class designated as Web, contact online: (http://www.classschedule.wayne.edu). The formal structure and processes in complex organizations: departmentation, decentralization, authority and power, relationships between groups, organizational design and evaluation. Factors affecting organizational design, adaptation to environments, and designing effective decision-making systems. (T)
Prereq: B A 7040. For any class designated as Web, contact online: (http://www.classschedule.wayne.edu). Analysis of the impact of dynamic forces, particularly globalization, on the theory, methods, and skills involved in designing and implementing planned changes in organizations. (I)
Prereq: B A 7040. For any class designated as Web, contact online: (http://www.classschedule.wayne.edu). Theory, policy, research and process issues in employment relationships. The specific personnel practices of planning, selecting, employee development and appraisal, compensation and labor relations examined as they relate to conceptual and pragmatic views of management or employee behavior. (T)
Prereq: MGT 7640. For any class designated as Web, contact online: (http://www.classschedule.wayne.edu). Survey of human resource management from a strategic perspective. Formulation and implementation of human resource strategy addressed for recruitment, placement, training, development, issues in an international community. (Y)
Prereq: B A 7040. For any class designated as Web, contact online: (http://www.classschedule.wayne.edu). Nature of entrepreneurship and role of entrepreneur. Focus on problematic issues involved in creating and managing a small business. Emphasis on special knowledge and skills required of an entrepreneurial manager. Individual students may act as consultants to entrepreneurs or small business owner/managers. (Y)
Prereq: MGT 7620 or consent of instructor. For any class designated as Web, contact online: (http://www.classschedule.wayne.edu). Technology and innovation in corporations. Building on principles of leadership and management, consideration of technology, innovation, organizational effectiveness and global competition; includes team skills, cross functional management, and communication in a global context. (Y)
Prereq: B A 7040 or MGT 7620 or consent of instructor. For any class designated as Web, contact online: (http://www.classschedule.wayne.edu). Key leadership principles required to manage technical professionals in complex and dynamic conditions. Team building, conflict resolution, cross-functional project management and communication skills in global contexts. (Y)
For any class designated as Web, contact online: (http://www.classschedule.wayne.edu). Forces affecting the character and quality of industrial relations and collective bargaining in the United States; their influence on contract negotiations and grievances. Major challenges facing unions and employers today. A collective bargaining situation is generally used, in which participants plan for negotiations and bargain contract issues. (Y)
Prereq: MGT 7750. For any class designated as Web, contact online: (http://www.classschedule.wayne.edu). Daily union-management relations. Grievance handling and arbitration. The causes of labor-management conflicts under a union contract. (Y)
Prereq: graduate standing. For any class designated as Web, contact online: (http://www.classschedule.wayne.edu). Theoretical foundations of processes of negotiation, mediation, and multi-party collaborative problem solving. Skill building simulation to integrate theory and practice. (Y)
Prereq: MGT 7640. For any class designated as Web, contact online: (http://www.classschedule.wayne.edu). Process policy and theoretical issues in pay and benefits administration; determination of structural level of individual pay, non-traditional reward systems, and government regulation of benefits. (Y)
Prereq: MGT 7640, 7750. Industrial relations and human resource management from an international perspective. Topics include: international investment, industrial relations strategies of U.S. multinationals, international relations systems in North America, Western Europe, and Asia-Pacific regions. (I)
Prereq: B A 7040. For any class designated as Web, contact online: (http://www.classschedule.wayne.edu). Academic and practitioner views of strategic leadership to understand the dynamics of leadership influence in complex organizations. (F,W)
Prereq: minimum 3.0 g.p.a.; admission to graduate program; completion of all core courses; and prior consent of department chair. Offered for S and U grades only. Students work a minimum of twenty hours per week for fifteen weeks in an entry-level management position. (T)
Prereq: written consent of adviser and graduate officer; approved Petition and Authorization for Directed Study must be on file in Office of Student Services prior to registration. Advanced independent readings under the supervision of a member of the graduate faculty in areas of special interest to student and faculty member. (T)
Prereq: B A 7040. Selected topics in the management and organizational sciences. (I)