...Macroeconomics Textbook : Fundamentals of Multinational Finance, 4th edition, 2012. Moffet/Stonehill/Eitman, Pearson, Prentice Hall. Supportive text : International Financial Management, Bekaert,Hodrick International Money and Finance: 7th edition by Michael Melvin Instructor : George El Kazzi, MMB Office Hours : M.W.F. from 6-7 pm E-mail : gkazzy@aust.edu.lb kazzifinance@yahoo.com Business Division e-mail: business.div@aust.edu.lb ________________________________________________________________________ Course Objectives To study the role that international trade and investment, currency movements, derivative Instruments, hedging strategies, international financial markets, and international agreements and institutions play in the management of multinational corporations. Learning Outcomes By the end of the semester, and based on class participation, the student will be able to: 1. Identify the Balance of payments theory and policy 2. Explore the theories of foreign...
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...8:30-9:00 AM, I. INTRODUCTION A. Practical application of the principles and concepts of the behavioral sciences to interpersonal relationships in the business and industrial environment. B. HRPO 1311 is a required course in the Business Management and Marketing and Sales Management degree and certificate programs. C. The course is occupationally related and serves as preparation for a career in general business management. D. Prerequisites: None E. Alphanumeric coding used throughout this syllabus denotes integration of the Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) occupational competencies (CA, C1, 2, B, etc.) and foundation skills (B, C1, 2, FA, etc.) for this course. The instructor will ensure the designated SCANS competencies and skills are addressed in the course. A detailed description of each competency/skill is contained in “A SCANS Report for America 2000,” Executive Summary, furnished separately. II. LEARNING OUTCOMES A. Upon successful completion of this course, Human Relations, the student will be able to: 1. Evaluate human relations including diversity, attitudes, self-esteem, and interpersonal skills to promote career success. 2. Identify and evaluate the causes and effects of stress in the workplace. 3. Develop individual and group communication, listening, and decision-making skills. Analyze how theories of motivation and human behavior impact strategies of changed management. 4. Provide a strong rationale for the study of human relations and...
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...Dr. Yannan Shen CLASS: HB3: Thur OFFICE: Location: Phone: Fax: E-mail: Hours: AAC 222 781-891-2652 781-891-2896 yshen@bentley.edu (best way to contact me) Thur 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM, and by appointment 7:30 PM – 9:50 PM SMITH XXX REQUIRED RESOURCES: Intermediate Accounting with Wiley Plus software (15th edition) Kieso, Weygandt, and Warfield, John Wiley & Sons, 2015 Introduction to Financial Accounting, an online tutorial Harvard Business School (HBS) Publishing Students who prefer to have both hard copy and online access could purchase the “wrapped” edition (text plus the Wiley Plus software) at the Bentley bookstore. Students not buying the textbook from the Bookstore should purchase a Wiley Plus access code directly from the publisher. Please note that textbook and software both are required for AC 611. You will continue to use the same textbook for AC 612 as well, and the Wiley Plus access code would be valid for next semester as well. Wiley Plus also contains an etextbook, but you do NOT get a paper copy. Your Wiley Plus url address is http://www.wileyplus.com/class/461237 The Blackboard website of the course contains a variety of course resources like the solutions manual and powerpoints and other course related announcements. You can access the Blackboard site http://blackboard.bentley.edu from any location at any time. AC 611 Syllabus, Page #1 Log in to Centra to attend your class online and/or replay classes for review...
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...UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS PROGRAM INTL 1101: GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS MR 11:45 AM - 1:25 PM, 310 Behrakis SPRING 2014 INSTRUCTOR INFORMATION Name: Dr. Ioannis Livanis Contact info: 617-373-4697 E-mail address: i.livanis@neu.edu Office: 210D Renaissance Park Office hours: Monday 2:00-4:00pm and Thursday 3:00-5:00pm ; and by appointment! TEACHING ASSISTANT INFORMATION Name: E-mail address: Office: Office hours: Course Content: The world is never a boring place, whether we are interested in politics, culture, history, security, or art. To understand the world around us, however, we must be engaged citizens of the world. We must try to put ourselves in others’ shoes, to develop a sense of how others perceive the world, what others experience, and to make connections with these differences. The study of international affairs trains us to think more carefully about global issues and encourages us to take action when needed. This course serves as an introduction to International Affairs, an interdisciplinary program that covers international politics, history, sociology, anthropology, language, and culture. This class is unique in that we will have lectures on a variety of topics, and watch films that enhance your understanding of globalization. You will be introduced to basic concepts of international affairs, including an introduction to the international system, globalization, and international organizations. We will explore global issues that have become “hot...
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...teaching staff Credit Points Prerequisites Corequisites Co-badged status Unit Description 3 3 3 3 3 3 Learning Outcomes Graduate Capabilities 4 5 Capable of Professional and Personal Judgement and Initiative Engaged and Ethical Local and Global citizens Discipline Specific Knowledge and Skills Critical, Analytical and Integrative Thinking Assessment Tasks 5 5 6 6 8 Case Study and Presentation Media Report Analysis Final Examination 8 9 10 Unit Schedule Delivery and Resources 12 14 Classes Prizes Required and Recommended Texts and/or Materials Teachnology Used and Required Learning and Teaching Activities Policies and Procedures 14 14 14 15 15 17 Academic Honesty Grades Grading Appeals and Final Examination Script Viewing Special Consideration Policy Student Support Student Enquiry Service Equity Support IT Help Research and Practice 17 17 17 17 18 18 18 18 19 Page 2 of 19 General Information Convenor and teaching staff Unit Convenor: Meena Chavan Email: meena.chavan@mq.edu.au Other Staff: Choon-Hwa Lim Email: choon-hwa.lim@mq.edu.au Credit Points 3 Prerequisites 42cp Corequisites N/A Co-badged status N/A Unit Description This unit examines the challenges to managing effectively in business environments when diverse cultures interact, both within and between firms. Particular attention is paid to managing increasingly diverse workforces in the Australian...
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...FAX: (912) 358-3664 E-mail: bestsm@savannahstate.edu *Do not use the ELearning email system* Office Hours: M-F 11:00 a.m. – 12 noon and by appointment Class Info: Tues and Thurs 2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. in Jordan Rm. 203 COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will cover basic principles of business management such as planning, decision making, and leading. In this course you will learn both the theory and the practice of management concepts and have the opportunity to practice some of them during class activities. PREREQUISITES: This course may only be taken by students with junior standing, or successful completion of 60 hours of coursework. Students who are enrolled in MGNT 3165 Management in Organizations are advised with this notice that they must have a grade of C or better in the above-listed prerequisite courses, prior to enrollment in this course. With your continued presence on the official roll, you are certifying that you have satisfactorily completed all of the required prerequisites prior to enrolling in this course. Students further acknowledge that, should the instructor, or the administration, subsequently determine, at any time hereafter, that this certification is invalid; violator(s) will be subject to administrative withdrawal from this course. Should such administrative withdrawal occur, after the official date to withdraw without a grade penalty, the grade assigned will be a “WF”. Should the violation be discovered after a final grade is reported, the student...
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...|[pic] |BA 388T Strategic management | | |Section 02310 | | |SPRING 2014 | Professor Stephen E. Courter Class Time and Location 9:30 -11:00 am GSB 3.106 Office CBA 3.236 Office Hours Mondays 10:30-11:30 am and Thursdays 1:00-2:30 pm Also By Appointment Phone 512-232-3441 E-Mail Steve.Courter@Mccombs.utexas.edu Course Web Page via Blackboard Teaching Assistant Vanessa Gonzales Vanessa.Gonzales@mba14.mccombs.utexas.edu Course Objectives The traditional purpose of this course is to help you integrate your knowledge of the functional areas of business into a holistic view of the firm and thereby determine and execute proper business level and corporate strategies. Additionally, the field of strategic management has developed a number of concepts and models unique to a general management view, and designed to provide the tools to analyze the firm and its environment. A second purpose of the course will be to digest this body of knowledge, and explore real life situations in applying its...
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... | | |Time: Online Course | | |Location: Online Course | | |Course start and end dates: August 20, 2012- December 3, 2012 | |II. |INSTRUCTOR: | | |Name: Paige Telan, Ph.D; LMHC | | |E-mail: telanp@fiiu.edu | | |Phone: (954) 263-3997 | |III. |COURSE DESCRIPTION | | | | | |This three-credit course will concentrate on the major forms of abnormal behavior in childhood and adolescence. These | | |include...
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...Coordinator: Lisa McKinney Office address: 364 Alston E-mail address: lmckinne@cba.ua.edu Phone number: 348-6679 Office hours: TR 10:50am - 12:30pm. Other times by appointment. Instructor: Amanda Beck Office address: 325 Bigood E-mail address: aebeck@cba.ua.edu Phone number: 348-0149 Office hours: R 9:30am – 11:00am. Other times by appointment. Instructor: Xianjing (Jasmine) Bordere Office address: 325 Bidgood E-mail address: xbordere@cba.ua.edu Phone number: 348-0149 Office hours: T 9:15am – 11:00am. Other times by appointment. Instructor: Ben Commerford Office address: 329 Bidgood E-mail address: bpcommerford@cba.ua.edu Phone number: 348-0150 Office hours: MW 3:30pm – 4:45pm. Other times by appointment. Instructor: Don Minyard Office address: 365 Alston E-mail address: dminyard@cba.ua.edu Phone number: 348-2911 Office hours: TR 12:45pm - 1:30pm and T 4:00pm – 5:30pm. Other times by appointment. Instructor: Kyle Peel Office address: 325 Bidgood E-mail address: rkpeel@cba.ua.edu Phone number: 348-0149 Office hours: TR 7:00am – 8:00am. Other times by appointment. Instructor: Jordan Rippy Office address: 325 Bidgood E-mail address: jarippy@crimson.ua.edu Phone number: 348-0149 Office hours: MW 10:45am - 12:00pm. Other times by appointment. Required text: Phillips, Libby, and Libby, Fundamentals of Financial Accounting, 4th edition, 2013, McGraw-Hill Irwin, hardcopy or loose-leaf or e-book option. Also, you will need a Pass Code for Connect...
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...OF PITTSBURGH Syllabus STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT (BSPP 2409) Instructor: Dr. John C. Camillus Donald R. Beall Professor of Strategic Management 338 Mervis Hall Phone: 412/648-1599 Fax: 412/383-7226 E-mail: camillus@katz.pitt.edu Administrative Assistant: Ms. Janice M. Trygar 341 Mervis Hall Phone: 412/648-1529 Fax: 412/648-1693 E-mail: jmtrygar@katz.pitt.edu Office Hours: 1) Mondays 11:00 am to 12:00 noon 2) Wednesdays 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm 3) By appointment. Course Description: “Strategy,” in the context of management, focuses on creating a harmonious relationship between organizations and their environments. Successful strategy matches an organization’s resources and capabilities with the opportunities that arise in its external environment and, in so doing, creates value for customers, shareholders and other stakeholders, as well as an advantage over the competition. This Strategic Management course offers a set of perspectives, concepts and tools for analyzing and understanding the general management task of formulating and implementing competitive strategies. Frameworks – derived primarily from industrial organization economics and the behavioral sciences – that relate to strategy formulation, the design of management systems, and motivating performance will provide the bases for analyzing and responding to organizational, industry, national and international contexts. The primary focus of the course will be on the real world ...
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... |Office Phone: (305) 348-3466 | |12:30-1:30 p.m. and 3:30-4:00 p.m. | | |Office: DM 281A |E-mail: Use Moodle course mail ONLY! | | |FIU e-mail: shpurikm@fiu.edu | |Teaching Assistant (TA): Jesse Slappey |TA Email: Use Moodle course mail ONLY! | |PSY 2012 Training and Development Center: Room DM 284, phone: 305-348-6892 | |Office hours: Mondays 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. (TA Ben) | |Tuesdays 3.30 - 6.30 p.m. (TA Ben) | |Wednesdays 10.30 a.m. - 1.30 p.m. (TA Brittany) | |Thursdays 8.30 a.m. - 3.30 p.m. (TA Jesse) | |Fridays 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. (TA Ben)...
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...Sultan Qaboos University College of Economics and Political Science Department of Operations Management and Business Statistics POMG4725: Special Topics in Operations Management PRINCIPLES OF LEAN OPERATIONS Course Syllabus Course Code: POMG4725 Course Title: Special Topics in Operations Management Credits: 3 Hours Contact Hours: 42 hours Course Status: Major elective Language of Instruction: English Course Type: Lecture Course Description and Objectives: This course covers methods and best practices companies should use to identify and eliminate waste (non-value-added activities) throughout the organization. It provides basic definitions, real-world examples, and an introduction to such topics as the transparent workplace, lean product development, Value Stream Mapping, lean process improvement, controlling processes, and continuous improvement. These tools, techniques and philosophies have been used worldwide by best-in-class companies to improve their bottom line, make them more competitive, and drastically improve their responsiveness to the customer. Topics: • Development of the concept of a lean organization and what benefits it will deliver • Identification of waste activities and understanding why they should be eliminated • How to use flow analysis to analyze a process and identify non-value-added activities • Understanding of the standard lean operations tools: 5S, visual workplace and visual order control, manufacturing cells, use...
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...Course Purpose: Develops an understanding and be able to apply the basic principles of personnel management. Course Objectives: The general goals of this course are: a. Identify the responsibilities of a human resources department. b. Explain the role of supervisor in human resource management. c. Describe the trends in the labor force composition and how they affect human resource management. d. Explain how the three branches of government regulate human resource management. e. Describe how work flow is related to organizational success. f. Explain the role of human resources in the recruitment process. g. Describe the selection process and methods of evaluation. h. Explain how to assess training needs and link training programs to needs. i. Identify the importance of performance management. j. Identify the steps in the career management process. k. Describe how organizations contribute to employees' job satisfaction. l. Identify the decisions involved in establishing a pay structure. Revised 8/1/2011 MGT 283 1 m. n. o. p. Explain how organizations link wages to overall performance. Discuss the importance of benefits as part of employee compensation. Define unions and...
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...Principles of Finance FIN 3403 Sections 1-9 Spring 2013 Instructor Information: Scott Besley Office Hours: MW 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Office: BSN 3134 Voice: 974-6341 E-mail: sbesley@usf.edu Course web page: http://sbesley.myweb.usf.edu/FIN3403/home.html Course Description: This is an introductory course in managerial finance in which you should attain a clear, basic understanding of the essentials of financial decision making. Emphasis is given to the underlying principles of corporate finance and their effects on the decision-making framework faced by financial managers who are charged with maximizing shareholders’ wealth. In essence the course covers topics related to financing and investment decisions—that is, how to raise funds and where to invest funds. The focus of the course is to provide an understanding of the basic tools and techniques required to make informed decisions about which assets a firm should purchase and how such purchases should be financed. When you finish this course, you should understand (1) the general framework for financial decision making, (2) the role of financial decision making in maximizing the value of a firm, (3) in general, how to determine the value of an asset and whether it should be purchased, (4) what is meant by the risk/return tradeoff and how risk and return affect investment decisions, and (5) how external factors, such as financial markets, affect financial decisions made by the firm. You will find that much of the information...
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...`[pic] Revised 08/18/2012 ITEC 1301 Intro to computer application technology Instructor Anastasiia Molodtsova FALL 2012 Course Description: ITEC 1301 is a one-semester, introductory course in which students expand their concepts and skills associated with the way computers are used in business and industry today. With the increasing presence of networked microcomputers in business environments, workers need to be able to use computer technology to increase their productivity by collaborating and through skilled use of word processing, spreadsheet, and database software packages. Workers need to understand what information is available via the Internet and how to judge the quality of the information. Workers need to be comfortable with and understand the advantages offered by a distributed computing environment. Workers need to be able to collaborate electronically and work in virtual teams. They need to be aware of specialized software and hardware that becomes available, thus they need the vocabulary that will enable them to read articles on business computing to stay abreast of rapidly-changing technology. The purpose of ITEC 1301 is to provide students with the opportunity to gain the knowledge and experience that will allow them to enter the job market fluent in the language of computers and information technology and ready to fit into an existing computing environment without extensive retraining. Many courses taught in the College of Technology including...
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