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MGMT 301 Basic Management Concepts exposes undergraduate students to the fundamental principles and basic concepts of management, with emphasis on organizational design, management processes, leadership, motivation, and managing teams and individuals in a global business environment.  

Sustainable management questions to consider:

• How would you explain the impact of sustainability on the practice of business management and leadership?
• When considering sustainability, what is the importance of strategy, leadership, and culture? 
• In the process of management (planning, organizing, leading, controlling), where does an understanding of sustainability belong?

MGMT 326 Organizational Behavior and Design serves as a foundation by covering the concepts, theories, and methods of managing people and designing organizations. Issues and challenges of managing at different organizational levels (individual, group, project, and total organization) are discussed and illustrated with real-world examples.  

Sustainable management questions to consider:

• How can managers inspire and organize employees to participate in sustainability initiatives? 
• What should managers know about the organization’s values and dynamics before planning sustainability integration? 
• How can managers integrate sustainability into a firm’s organizational structure? Then, how will managers present the business case to C-Suite executives?

MGMT 451W Business, Ethics, and Society is an advanced examination of social, ethical, legal, and economic responsibilities of those who must make and execute challenging business decisions and manage others who do. The course focuses on the knowledge, skills, and perspectives that a leader in business must have in order to navigate the intersection of business, ethics, and society. 

Sustainable management questions to consider:

• What are companies’ responsibilities to the larger community to help ensure a sustainable future? 
• How can sustainability concerns be incorporated into companies’ formal decision-making processes? 
• What is my responsibility, as an ethical leader, to keep sustainability front and center in decision-making? 

MGMT 471 Strategic Management focuses on the management of the firm using a strategic perspective to grow and combat issues that influence competitive performance. The strategic perspective emphasizes the firm as the unit of analysis (e.g., analyzing how a firm competes in its industry), and it addresses key decisions that have a long-term impact on the structure and performance of the organization (e.g., diversifying into a new business or changing the company’s strategy).  

Sustainable management questions to consider:

• What are ways to assess sustainable performance?
• What are ways that strategic leaders can build sustainability into their strategies?
• How can strategic leaders structure their organizations and establish employee control systems to implement sustainability-related goals?

BA 342 Socially Responsible, Sustainable and Ethical Business Practice examines actions taken by corporations that impact global citizenship, environmental sustainability, and the economic stability of international societies. It further looks at relationships, rights, and responsibilities between businesses, business decision-makers and their stakeholders.

Sustainable management questions to consider:

• How does the world define sustainability both from the nation state and corporation perspectives? 
• How are businesses using sustainability to drive performance?  
• Where does environmental, social, and governance (ESG) fit in with respect to the stakeholder model of the corporation?  
• What major groups drive sustainability? Can we explain GRI, Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dow Jones Sustainability Indices, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, and many others?
• Can we explain how population, intensity of resource usage, and climate change are fundamental drivers of sustainability? How do we apply the lenses of science, politics, and economics to the drivers?

MGMT 355 Leadership and Change in Organizations focuses on concerns with understanding yourself as a leader in organizations, especially organizations undergoing change.

Sustainable management questions to consider:

• How can companies keep their sustainability initiatives alive while undergoing organizational change? 
• How can a firm incorporate sustainability from top-down leadership to all employees? 
• What opportunities and threats do disruptive innovations present for a business’ current sustainable processes?