Ethical, Inclusive, Strategic, & Sustainable Thinking

Sound reasoning to analyze situations, make decisions and solve problems. Ability to obtain, interpret, and analyze both qualitative and quantitative information while creatively solving problems.

Through the courses in the Management major, you can potentially develop knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) that will prepare you to effectively manage organizations and the people in them, as well as develop and implement strategies that will lead to success.

For the Ethical, Inclusive, Strategic, & Sustainable Thinking KSA Category, you will gain:

  • Knowledge in this area involves the requisite frameworks through which to make ethical, inclusive, strategic, and sustainable decisions.
  • Skills involve the ability to think critically in analyzing workplace and ethical dilemmas, socially (ir)responsible behaviors, and formulate and implement strategies.

Visit our Management Major Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSA) Webpage to learn more about the KSA's.

 

Prescribed MGMT Courses:

Course No. Knowledge Skills & Abilities
MGMT 326 Types of cognitive biases Analyzing dilemmas: workplace
MGMT 451W  

Ethical decision making frameworks

Common ethical issues in organizations

  

Analyzing dilemmas: ethical

Applying ethical decision- making frameworks

Analyzing socially responsible/irresponsible conduct
MGMT 481 Strategy formulation frameworks

Strategic formulation: industry, competitor, and macro-trend analysis

Additional MGMT Courses: (Choose any three courses from the following list based on your interests.)

Course No. Knowledge Skills & Abilities
MGMT 341

 

Designing human resources strategy mapping
MGMT 355    
MGMT 420    
MGMT 441    
MGMT 443    
MGMT 445 Cognitive biases: decision making; Inclusive decision-making frameworks

Analyzing dilemmas: diversity
MGMT 480    
BA 441

Sustainability frameworks and foundational theories

Formulating sustainability strategy

Developing sustainability-oriented solutions

 

Knowledge

  • Cognitive biases: Types (MGMT 326); Decision-making (MGMT 445);
  • Ethical decision-making frameworks; Common ethical issues in organizations (MGMT 451W)
  • Inclusive decision-making frameworks (MGMT 445)
  • Strategy formulation frameworks (MGMT 481)
  • Sustainability frameworks and foundational theories (BA 441)

Skills & Abilities

  • Analyzing dilemmas: workplace (MGMT 326); diversity (MGMT 445); ethical (MGMT 451W)
  • Analyzing socially responsible/irresponsible conduct (MGMT 451W)
  • Strategy formulation: Industry, competitor and macro-trend analyses (MGMT 481)
  • Formulating sustainability strategy (BA 441)
  • Designing human resources strategy mapping (MGMT 341)