Understanding the Business Environment

Understanding of the company’s business and strategies and the needs of stakeholders, and ability to see how your work fits into the larger organizational puzzle.

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.

Through the Understanding the Business Environment KSA category, you will gain:

  • Knowledge here includes developing an understanding of corporate and business strategy, corporate social responsibility, and the societal impact of business.
  • Skills include being able to conduct industry and macro-trend analyses and formulating sustainability 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

 

 

MGMT 451W

Corporate social responsibility and stakeholder management

 

MGMT 481

Global business environment

Corporate business strategy

Alliance and network management

Consulting industry and the nature of professional services firms

Aligning business process to strategy

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

Course No.

Knowledge

Skills & Abilities

MGMT 341

Employment Law

 

MGMT 355

 

 

MGMT 420

 

 

MGMT 441

Employment Law for talent acquisition

 

MGMT 443

    

MGMT 445

 

  

MGMT 480

Consulting industry and the nature of professional services firms

Aligning business process to strategy

  

BA 441

Understanding the societal impact of business

Developing sustainability-oriented solutions

Making the case for business sustainability strategy

 

Knowledge

  • Corporate and business strategy (MGMT 481)
  • Aligning business process to strategy (MGMT 480)
  • Corporate social responsibility and stakeholder management (MGMT 451W)
  • Global business environment; alliance and network management (MGMT 481)
  • Employment law (MGMT 341); Employment law for talent acquisition (MGMT 441)
  • Consulting industry and the nature of professional services firms (MGMT 480)
  • Understanding the societal impact of business (BA 441)

Skills & Abilities

  • Industry and macro-trend analysis (MGMT 481)
  • Formulating sustainability strategy (BA 441)