M.B.A from UMass Boston

Leadership & Organizational Change Specialization (Complete Four):

Required Courses (Two):

• Leadership Management in the 21st Century (MBAMGT 683) (on campus)
  Explore leadership as it is practiced in corporate and public-sector environments. You’ll learn about the role of leaders in guiding organizations through turbulent business climates, in motivating subordinates and teams, and in crafting strategic visions for their organizations. Throughout the course, you’ll discuss change management, globalization, and human resource management factor.
• Cross-cultural and Comparative Management (MBAMGT 665) (on campus)
  Learn frameworks to understand, analyze critically, and practice cross cultural/international management under globalization. Gain an in-depth understanding of and critically analyze the ways in which cross-cultural differences in values have consequences for management behaviors in terms of cooperation, ethics and decision making, leadership, negotiation, teamwork, and human resources. Get an understanding of how the broader context of difference and dependence among nations and people materialize into individual and group differences in conceptualizing and practicing cross-cultural/international management.

Electives (Pick Two):

• Labor-Management Relations and the Collective Bargaining Process (MBAMGT 652) (on campus)
  Learn about the practice of labor-management relations in the United States. The nature of labor-management conflict, the development of the US labor movement, and a comparison to other Western labor movements provide the theoretical and historical framework needed to assess the effectiveness of current practice and trends in the development of new practices and institutions. You’ll explore the tactics and strategies of management and union representatives and the legal and economic constraints on their behavior in the organization of unions, contract negotiation, and contract administration and interpretation.
• The Legal Environment of Business (MBAMGT 664) (on campus)
  Broaden your understanding of our legal and regulatory system and how it affects you as a business manager. Businesses have become increasingly subject to laws and regulations. Legal and regulatory provisions pervade aspects of business such as the sale of securities; marketing practices; product liability; and business relationships with employees, customers, and other interested parties. In this course, you’ll develop your ability to meet the legal and regulatory demands and responsibilities of contemporary business.
• Introduction to Environmental Management (MBAMGT 671) (on campus)
  Gain an understanding of current environmental issues as they relate to managerial decision-making. Examine issues from the worldwide perspectives of business and society with a focus on the issues of waste and recycling, air quality (including ozone depletion, global warming, and acid rain), water quality, resource management, biodiversity, and sustainable economic growth.
• Managing in the Global Economy (MBAMGT 675) (on campus)
  Acquire an in-depth conceptual and operational understanding of a group of countries, with the purpose of acquiring the technical skills necessary to enter, network, structure, manage, and eventually exit effectively from a foreign environment.
• Nonprofit Management (MBAMGT 687) (on campus)
  Nonprofit organizations aim to improve society while facing similar management challenges to any organization as they provide valued goods and services. This large and growing sector includes colleges and universities, hospitals and social service entities, and human rights. 
• Social Media Marketing (MBAMKT 691) (on campus)
  Social media provides marketers with several important capabilities not present in most other media including interactivity and measurability. Platforms like Facebook, Foursquare, and Twitter have a fundamental impact on the way businesses and consumers behave, communicate, and interact with each other. In this course, you’ll deal with the possibilities that social media can offer companies and how it can be used to retain and interact with consumers. Explore established theoretical models and best practice business cases as you examine mobile services, as well as the special characteristics of social media.
• Written Communication for Managers (MBAACM 684) (online)
  Study fundamental theories and strategies needed for effective writing in diverse management situations. The course perspective is that of the manager in a multi-national organization. You’ll focus on the impact of written messages on receivers, both internal and external to the organization in the context of communication in the global marketplace, bearing in mind that although English is used extensively in doing business in the world communication is always influenced by culture. You’ll explore fundamental topics, including audience awareness, organizational strategies, content development, language control, persuasion, intercultural communication, and message channel choices.