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Executive Management Courses

The Executive Management track is a 13-course program that culminates with a capstone project course and a final comprehensive exam review.
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ADM-580 History of Management Thought1 Hours
This course provides an overview of major schools or perspectives of management theory. The focus is upon the disciplinary foundations of management theory as well as the impact of historical context upon the development of management theory. The course also focuses upon the rise of the concept of management as a distinct profession.
STORYLINE: Central’s CEO is looking for wisdom. In this course, he will ask you and your training partner to go on a quest to uncover Central’s past. You will be assigned a series of interviews with former employees to unearth secrets about the family business.
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ADM-582 Financial Accountability3 Hours
This course is intended to present students with basic skills and terminology in financial accountability and then allow them to apply these skills in practical critical thinking exercises, decision situations and other higher levels of learning. Topics include both financial and managerial accounting concepts. The course begins with an understanding of the various financial statements and the basic accounting process. A more in-depth coverage of assets, liabilities, equities, revenues and expenses leads to financial statement analysis. The course transitions into foundational managerial accounting concepts including cost behavior, budgets, performance evaluation, differential analysis and capital budgeting.
STORYLINE: You are assigned to add up the company’s vending machine money. The machine's income goes toward a beneficiary fund for needy Central employees, but the lack of a system led to tremendous conflict last year.
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ADM-583 Management for Results3 Hours
This course focuses on the knowledge and skills needed to grow and sustain performance in an organization, whether a full company, a department, division, or other strategic business unit within an existing organization by getting the right things done through teams of people. It addresses the common management functions of planning, organizing, leading and controlling. The student learns from classic and contemporary reading, case studies, peers, and practicing managers.
STORYLINE: The annual awards ceremony is just around the corner, and you and your training partner will decide which employees will receive a coveted Central award. Will you be ready for your tasks? When the awards ceremony comes around, will you know what it means to manage others?
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ADM-584 Marketing for Results3 Hours
This course gives attention to the knowledge and skills needed to manage the marketing function in a 21st century organization. It addresses the common marketing functions of industry and market research, customer research, product and service design, pricing, creating awareness, distribution, and presentation.
STORYLINE: The head of Central’s marketing department is in trouble. Understaffed and under pressure to meet Central’s goals of doubling in size, she is at her wits’ end. Reluctantly, she must rely on you and your partner to help her team meet deadlines.
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ADM-565 MIS and E-Business3 Hours
This course is an overview of the interchange and processing of information using electronic techniques for conducting business within a framework of generally accepted standards and practices. Areas covered include; E Business terminology, the foundations of E Business, why E Business, How mangers use Internet technology, retailing, customer service, advertising, managing with the Internet, using Intranets and Extranets, and infrastructure for E Business. Students will begin applying their knowledge of E Business by planning their own website during this course.
STORYLINE: Central Products Company has outgrown its MIS system. Now you and the MIS team must plan and execute an information system strategy, architecture, and infrastructure. The pressure is on to redesign the department as well as to determine the right combinations of hardware, software, and data that will make the company more responsive to all parts of the value chain.
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ADM-585 Management of Human Resources3 Hours
This course examines the knowledge and skills needed to grow and sustain performance in an organization, specifically a human resources department, and includes the relevant issues commonly associated with the study of human behavior in organizations. It addresses the common functions of planning, organizing, training, leading and controlling, specifically targeted within the context of human resources management (HRM).
STORYLINE: At the heart of Central Products’ fast-paced expansion is the weary and ragged Human Resources department, charged with the daunting task of hiring hundreds of new employees in just less than two years. The HR director needs you to contribute as one of her staff. You will be challenged to deal with issues of sexual harassment, on-the-job injury, and unionization.
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ADM-555 Decision Analysis in Organizations3 Hours
This course analyzes how managers in business organizations make better decisions. The course is composed of two major sections. The first has to do with individual decisions made in organizations. The second has to do with methods and technologies used in the decision process.
STORYLINE: On the same day you walk into the Production and Engineering offices as an executive trainee, you are faced with a raft of critical decisions. You will learn to handle lower-, middle-, and upper-level decisions with insight and wisdom, or you will experience what happens when you disappoint your mentor.
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ADM-586 International Business3 Hours
This course gives attention to the knowledge and skills needed to grow and sustain performance in an international business organization, whether a full company, a department, division or other strategic business unit within an existing organization. It addresses the common international business functions of market analysis, exporting, sourcing, direct foreign investment, cross-cultural management.
STORYLINE: The Director of International Business at Central Products has hired three regional directors for Central's expanding international efforts. They have just arrived at headquarters for fast-track training, and you will be participating. You will travel with the regional directors and witness them experience their own cross-cultural challenges first hand.
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ADM-587 International Finance3 Hours
This course provides the student the knowledge and skills needed to manage the complexities of financing exports, imports and direct foreign investment. Primary topics include the nature or behavior of foreign exchange rates and managing the impacts of exchange rates on short-term and long-term international business activities and performance objectives. The student learns from classic and contemporary readings, case studies, peers, and practicing managers.
STORYLINE: The newly hired regional directors have established their regional offices and have created business for Central Products all over the world. Now they are being faced with issues of fluctuating currency and foreign exchange, and they need to improve their international finance expertise fast.
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ADM-588 Organizational Strategy3 Hours
This course equips the students to deal with the complexities of managing entire organizations from the perspective of the executive managers. The students will demonstrate an understanding of the competing demands for limited resources and the challenges of a competitive global marketplace. The Balanced Score Card and sustainable returns will be further analyzed.
STORYLINE: Looking back to the late 1990s, you can clearly see the strategic mistakes that got the company into its current precarious position. Through the magic of virtual reality, you will fast forward to 2025 where you will become intimately involved in the creation and execution of strategy for a new company.
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ADM-589 Leadership in Organizations3 Hours
This course examines the knowledge and skill sets needed to lead people in business organizations. Learning how to build teams, distribute leadership, and develop political acuity and persuasive communication skills are important elements of this course. In addition, understanding one's self, including learning style, values, aspirations, biases, affective skills, strengths and weaknesses and learning to manage emotions under stressful circumstances, are crucial to the development of effective leadership.
STORYLINE: As your executive internship program at Central Products comes closer to its end, you and your colleagues are confronted with a significant challenge: leadership succession. You will be asked to participate in an analysis of leadership and how it will affect the company, and make some recommendations regarding several individuals and their leadership styles and potential.

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Executive Management Courses