International Business Management
1. ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR
This course presents the study of factors that either influence or are influenced by peopleat work. Focuses on macro factors such as organizational structure, technology andenvironment; group factors such as group dynamics, leadership, conflict, change anddecision making; and individual factors such as personality, attitudes, perception, motivation,and job satisfaction.
2. SERVICE MANAGEMENT
This course will focus on and explore areas such as: Why traditional management theoriesdo not fit today's hospitality industry, how a company's service strategy relates to guests'perceptions of value and critical moments of truth and why team building is a high priorityfor many hospitality organizations.
3. MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM (MIS)
This course is designed to help students learn how to manage and use informationtechnologies to revitalize business processes, improve business decision making and againcompetitive advantage.
4. CULTURAL DIVERSITY
HR manager in a diverse organization must learn to embrace differences in employees'gender, race, sexuality, age, and religion. Students' complex issues of managing a diverseworkforce as well as prepare them to enter an increasingly broad workplace where diversitymust not be accepted, but also understood.
5. CAREER MANAGEMENT
This course not only introduces students to the basics of career management but also tostrategies for effective career management implementation. In addition, the course willalso deal on techniques to align the needs of the individual with the goals of the organization.Some of the topics to be covered are: career decision making, trends on career managementpractices, assessment strategies, and others.
6. MANAGING CHANGE
The course provides insights on how organization change and how each member can bea proactive participant in the many changes occurring in organization today. It acquaintsstudents on the difficulty and pitfalls of change and provides successful paths for significantchange in complex organization. Specifically, the course will discuss why change is needed,types of changes, and how to implement them.
7. QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS
The course focuses on the application of the different mathematical models use in decisionmaking. These models are commonly applied in a variety of complex problems not onlyin business, but also in government, health care, education, and many other areas. Amongthe topics covered are: decision analysis, regression models, forecasting, inventory controlmodels, linear programming, project management, and others.
8. INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
This course introduces students to the dynamics and characteristics of interpersonalcommunications. Students will explore their own communication practices and improvetheir skills in verbal and nonverbal communication, perception and active listening. Theywill assess and interpret client needs, learn strategies for resolving conflict and participateas team members.
9. BUSINESS SIMULATION
This course is designed to provide the application of complex business simulation. Therewill be mock up business settings and data simulation to practice how to compete in anindustry.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS COURSES
1. INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
This course introduces students to national and international government and state policies,international institutions and functions, multinational corporations, regional policies andentities, national economic entities, and policy decision making and options. Furtherdiscussions in this course will cover how transnational corporations, multinationalcorporations, small and medium enterprises do business and operate in internationalsettings. The principles of microeconomics in light of international business, trade, andcommerce will be discussed thoroughly.
2. ECONOMIC THEORIES OF GLOBALIZATION
The mechanics of globalization (according to Frank Lechner): relativization, emulation,homogenization, interpenetration, contestation.
3. INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT LAW
This course I designed to shed light on the process of foreign investment as well as todemonstrate the relevance of international law to transnational business transactions. Thefocus of the course will be on the international community's regulation of foreign investmentand the law and protection required by international investments.
4. INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
A working knowledge of international economic organizations and institutions is to beprovide through the study and analyses of their global (IMF and World Bank) and regional(ADB, Islamic Development Bank, European Central Bank, etc.) roles.
5. INTERNATIONAL TRADE
Future trade professionals need a hands-on knowledge about regulating institutions ininternational trade as well as an operational one on trade rules, regulations, and mechanisms(e.g. arbitration and disputes and legal dispositions).
6. INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC AND CORPORATE FINANCE
Business professionals, shareholders, investors, and bankers need through and completedata, information and analyses on financial matters, markets, stock exchanges, institutions,financial systems (and software), as well as real time news. This course prepares thestudent's familiarization with the key sources on finance and banking in the corporate andpublic sector and is intended as "hands on knowledge for hands on work and operations".
7. CRISIS MANAGEMENT
These "hot" issues affect the very core of international business. The study of the how (s)and why (s) of present crises developments is not only incidental (or conjonctural) in
nature but also structural.