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List of Courses
* All credit hours are based on the current term, this may vary for previous terms.
| ENTR310 - Innovation and Creativity |
(3 credit hours) |
Innovation & Creativity is presented as a way of thinking and a mindset. Students are expected to study the various steps in innovation and creativity including: developing creativity and understanding innovation; innovation and the entrepreneur; differences between idea generation, invention and innovation; role of creativity; and innovation process. Innovation entails more than inventions of a new product or processes and is not necessarily the direct result of research and development efforts.
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| ENTR320 - Entrepreneurship |
(3 credit hours) |
This course is intended to provide deeper insights into entrepreneurship and establish entrepreneurial links with innovation. The concept of innovation is presented as the means by which entrepreneurs execute their prusuit of challenging the unknown. The students are expected to focus on the various themes including: entrepreneurial perspectives; entrepreneruail economy; entrepreneurial firms impact; entrepreneurial opportunity; evolution of entrepreneurshi?p; and myths of entrepreneurship.
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- MGMT200 or MGMT105 or ITBP307 or ITBP312
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| ENTR330 - Social Entrepreneurship |
(3 credit hours) |
While the concept of social entrepreneurship dates back to mid 1900s in theoretical concepts, there is limited evidence to suggest it being used as a ?driving strategy? and a ?success strategy?. Within the contemporary global practical context, social entrepreneurial organizations continue to create radical shifts in multiple aspects of global businesses. Hence, entrepreneurs of the future ? in order to stay ahead ? must familiarize themselves with the principles and applications of social entrepreneurial links.
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| ENTR410 - Managing Entrepreneurial Vent. |
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Entrepreneurial ventures span across home-based businesses, family controlled businesses, small to medium enterprises and large corporations. This course explores the setting or context in which a manager operates and the characteristics of the entrepreneurial manager. The course is designed to focus on the entreprenuer as a manager and the processes and techniques he/she uses as a manager.
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| ENTR460 - International Entrepreneurship |
(3 credit hours) |
This course is intended to provide students with international prospectives of entrepreneurship. The commercial, social-cultural and economic landscape of the international context tend to affect entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial venture s significantly. Arguably internatonal adoption of the entrepreneurail mindset apperars to be growing. Such mindsets and drivers, while informed by new venture experiences affect corporations and start-up business owners.
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| HRMD310 - Organizational Behavior |
(3 credit hours) |
In today?s dynamic and rapidly changing business environment, the success of any organization depends on the ability of its members at all levels to work concertedly to achieve the strategic goals of the organization. This course covers basic analysis and applications of modern theories and techniques for understanding human behavior in organizational contexts. The course discusses the basic knowledge on the dynamics, determinants, and outcomes of individual and group behavior in organizations. Topics covered include determinants of motivation, individual and group decision making, organizational communication, team dynamics, leadership, power and politics in organizations, and conflict resolution.
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- MGMT200 or MGMT105 or HSR210 or AGRB210
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| HRMD320 - Human Resources MGMT |
(3 credit hours) |
This course provides a basic knowledge of the key aspects of managing human resources, emphasizing the link between human resource policies and practices and the organization's strategy. Topics covered in the course include HR planning, job (work) analysis, staffing, performance appraisal, employee compensation and benefits, orientation and training, and employee relations.
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| HRMD330 - Staffing Organizations |
(3 credit hours) |
This course covers various activities and techniques used for effective human resource staffing in organizations. Students will conduct job analyses, develop HR plans, and develop recruitment and selection programs using human resource information systems to support these activities Topics covered includes an analysis of objectives, techniques, and procedures for forecasting manpower needs, recruiting candidates, and selecting employees. The course emphasizes understanding basic types of assessment tools and procedures for choosing new employees. Basic concepts in measurement and validity are discussed. Issues relating to organizational entry and socialization may also be covered.
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- HRMD310 or MGMT215
- HRMD320 or MGMT225
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| HRMD410 - Human Resources Perform MGMT |
(3 credit hours) |
This course provides and intensive discussion and application of concepts and tools used for appraising and enhancing human performance in organizations. Topics covered include designing, implementing, and evaluating programs to assess employee job performance, developing training and development programs to improve performance, and linking rewards to performance. The course addresses the ethical issues inherent in appraising and rewarding employees as well as the challenges of developing appropriate practices and techniques.
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- HRMD310 or MGMT215
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| HRMD420 - Compensation &Benefits MGMT |
(3 credit hours) |
This course provides a systematic study of effective management of compensation and benefits in organizations. Topics covered include strategic compensation planning, components of the total pay mix, job evaluation systems, the compensation structure, governmental regulation of compensation, employee benefits and employee services programs, administering incentive plans, and other significant compensation issues such as variable pay plans, skill and knowledge based pay plans, and linking pay to performance.
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| MGMT200 - Fundamentals of Management |
(3 credit hours) |
This course aims at providing students with basic management knowledge. It also aims at improving students' ability to diagnose and solve managerial problems as well as gaining familiarity with new issues in the management area.
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| MGMT415 - Strategic Management |
(3 credit hours) |
Strategic management is designed to stimulate critical thinking abilities on strategy formulation, implementation and evaluation in the business environment. The course immerses the student in both theory and practice with case studies being analyzed to simulate real-life business problems. The course examines different industries and the reasons why different strategies are utilized according to the prevailing business conditions within a particular industry or market.
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- ACCT225
- STAT125 or STAT130
- MGMT230 or SCML200
- MKTG235 or MKTG200
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| MGMT605 - UAE in the Global Business Env |
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This course exposes students to the most recent issues regarding globalization along with the dynamic structure and operations of the multinational firm as it relates to the UAE. Students will examine the position of the UAE in the context of the global business environment through an integrated progression of topics beginning with an understanding of the political, economic, cultural and monetary features of the UAE business environment and a better understanding of its advantages and shortcomings. An overall picture on how the UAE business environment is viewed by professionals, government, and business organizations is examined. Discussions will focus on developing an understanding of international business and influences of global trends and forces (i.e., WTO, FDI, and FTA) on the UAE future. Reviews of the current UAE business industries of financial institutions including Islamic banking, real estate, hospitality and tourism, other service industries, manufacturing and petrochemical industries are reviewed.
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| MGMT610 - Strategic Human Resources MGMT |
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Effective management of human resources in a contemporary knowledge economy is vital for success of any organization. To gain and maintain sustained competitive advantage, the organization needs to utilize the full potential of human resources. This course is designed to examine the strategic challenges faced by senior managers in formulating and administering human resources policies and procedures in different types of organizations. Contemporary issues related to strategic human resources management, human resource planning, job/work analysis, hiring, training, performance management, and compensation will be examined.
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| MGMT615 - Organ. Dev.& Change Management |
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Experience shows that in order for organizations to succeed and thrive in today?s dynamic and globalized business world they need to be able to react and adapt quickly to changes in their environment. Organizational development (OD) involves the application of behavioral science knowledge to optimize and achieve congruence between an organization?s strategy, structure, processes, and culture and thus improve the overall organizational performance. This course covers the basic knowledge and tools that managers need in order to diagnose organizational challenges and problems and design programs and interventions to achieve greater organizational effectiveness. Topics covered in the course include tools to diagnose the organization and its environments, designing OD interventions, and leading and managing the change process. Major applications of OD will be discussed including organizational restructuring and downsizing, high employee involvement practices, human resource performance management, and organization transformation interventions with emphasis on the role of effective leadership in the process.
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| MGMT620 - Entrepreneurship & Innovation |
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The aim of this course is to examine the concept of entrepreneurship and how it enables society to achieve higher economic performance. The characteristics of entrepreneurs and how such characteristics can be developed are identified and evaluated. Covering the broad spectrum of innovation, students will discuss the role of research and development as well as develop skills to become innovative and creative thinkers in order to identify and evaluate potential opportunities in the business environment (new products, services, and processes). This knowledge base and creative skill provide the foundation for developing a robust business plan and transforming an opportunity into a business as a potential new venture.
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| MGMT621 - Leadership & Orgn. Behvior |
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This course discusses individual and group behavior within organizations and its relation to the social and economics roles of modern organizations. The course covers contemporary issues related to individual and group motivation and performance, organizational culture, the role of leadership, power and politics in organizations, managing organizational change, organizational restructuring, and workforce diversity. The course examines both the social and economic roles of the company and studies.
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| MGMT622 - Staffing Organizations |
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This course covers the basic conceptual and practical issues in the areas of recruitment, selection, and retention of staff in modern organizations. Topics covered include developing a staffing strategy, recruiting candidates, and selecting employees. The course emphasizes understanding basic staffing support systems including legal compliance, HR planning, job analysis, and various types of assessment tools used in employee selection.
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| MGMT623 - Performance and Rewards Mgmt. |
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This course is designed to introduce students to the basic issues in managing and rewarding employee performance. The course provides an in-depth understanding of performance management and the various tools and techniques that can be used to enhance an employee?s contribution to the organization. This course also discusses the role that employee total reward systems play in organizational success and emphasizes the importance of linking rewards to performance.
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| MGMT624 - HR Development in UAE Context |
(3 credit hours) |
This course provides an overview of major challenges and issues in developing human resources within the UAE and the regional contexts. Issues of cross-cultural HRM will be discussed. The course then provides an in-depth discussion of themes and trends in training and development, individual and adult learning principles, training needs assessment, training evaluation, and management development.
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| MGMT625 - Business Project Management |
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| MGMT630 - Bus. Ethics &Corp. Governance |
(3 credit hours) |
Business ethics and corporate governance has gained immense importance over the last decade. Previously renowned companies such as Adelphia Cable, Enron, Global Crossing, ImClone, Parmalat, Tyco, and WorldCom have become linked to a growing trend of unethical business behavior. This course addresses the ?big picture? questions surrounding the relationships between business ethics and business and society as a whole: Why does an organization exist? Whom does the organization serve? What responsibilities does an organization have to its stakeholders? Is there a moral high ground in business? Does running an ethical business pay off in the long run? Students will learn to address these questions throughout this course.
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| MGMT640 - Corp. Leadership & Org. Design |
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The aim of this course is to examine leadership and organization architecture in the context of a dynamic business environment. The course examines the current theory and research on the design and behavior of effective organizations. It introduces participants to the main functions and responsibilities of managers and leaders in modern organizations. Students will learn how organizations are structured within the context of their larger social, political, and economic environments; why systems of control and coordination vary across organizations and change over time; and how effective leadership may contribute towards improving design, culture, processes and effectiveness of organizations. Understanding organizations is essential to becoming effective analysts, managers and leaders.
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| MGMT650 - Global OM in the Service Env. |
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This course focuses on quantitative tools and qualitative models for business management in a complex environment. Three main components are covered: strategy, design, and management of services. Two themes run throughout the course: (1) the importance of aligning the design and management of services with the strategy of the firm and (2) the impact and management of variability in services. These components and themes will be illustrated with examples from the UAE environment that covers public services, health care, financial services, retail environments, web-based services, airlines, and emerging industries. Interactions among service operations management and other functions and areas of research, particularly marketing, information systems, and organizational behavior will be examined.
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| MGMT655 - Supply Chain Management |
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Advancements in information technology opened a new era of integrative approach of managing all activities related to products from the point of origin to the point of consumption. This course covers the major issues in supply chain management including Location, Inventory, Forecasting, Transportation and Distribution. It covers the role of E-business in coordinating a supply chain. At the end of this course, students should be familiar with the individual components of supply chain and their interrelationships. Students will develop the quantitative and analytical skills to: analyze, model and solve supply chain problems. The course is based on a mixture of lectures and case discussions.
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| MGMT660 - Strategic Mgmnt.in a Dyn. Env. |
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The mission of the course is to explore why effective strategic management leads to quality business performance. The basic concepts and tools of strategic analysis, developing the craft of a well-conceived strategy, and the execution of a strategic plan are covered. Students will be called upon to probe, question and evaluate all aspects of a company?s external and internal situation thereby sizing up a company?s standing in the marketplace and its ability to compete with rivals.
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| MGMT665 - Management and Leadership |
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This course covers the basic skills and competencies required to enhance managerial effectiveness. The course introduces students to the main functions and responsibilities of managers and leaders in modern organizations. Topics covered include the major challenges facing managers in today's organizations, employees behavior and motivation, team dynamics, distinction between management and leadership, effective leadership in today's organizations, determinants of individual and group decision making, power and politics in organizations, and conflict resolution in organizations. The knowledge and skills acquired in this course are intended to help students perform effectively in their work roles as well as provide effective leadership for others.
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| MGMT675 - Management & Leadership |
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We are going to make this a useful course, one where you will contribute at least as much as I do, where you will do presentations your colleagues can learn from, and where we will analyse and discuss the content of these presentations together. I will make sure that this course is useful by providing practical and UAE focused examples of the themes we are discussing in the chapters and in the presentations, and I will provide you with excellent papers written by my colleagues at UAEU and beyond. All my research is about the UAE, and I have seen both better practices and bad examples for many aspects of management and leadership. I will also help you to do research work on your own, useful and applied research relevant to this course and to your work environment. I have enjoyed my previous MEM courses a lot, and I am looking forward to working with you. Let us make sure together that we get the most out of it.
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| MGMT683 - Planning&Implemnt. Strategies |
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| MGMT691 - Total Quality Management |
(3 credit hours) |
This course emphasizes the importance of quality and excellence in today?s organizations. It reviews the history of quality and examines the wide variety of concepts, tools and techniques for managing, controlling and improving, quality. Topics covered include the philosophy and practice of Total Quality Management (TQM), quality certificates such as ISO, Six Sigma, quality awards, quality costs, quality tools and quality assurance.
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| MGMT692 - Organizational Excellence Modl |
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This course emphasizes the importance of organizational excellence (OE) in today's organizations. Topics examined include origins of OE, a variety of frameworks for understanding organizational excellence, current models of organizational excellence such as European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) excellence model, and different pillars of OE.
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| MGMT693 - International Business |
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This course is designed to expose students to the fundamentals of planning and implementation of strategies. Topics to be covered include situational analysis, various strategic planning methodologies and tools such as Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis, Political, Economic, Social and Technological (PEST) analysis and Scenario Planning, common reasons for the failure of strategic plans, and how to successfully implement the planned strategies.
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| MGMT694 - Organizational PM & Benchmark |
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This course emphasizes the importance of organizational performance management. Topics examined include concepts of performance measurement and management, principles of performance management, current approaches of performance management such as balanced scorecard and business process engineering (BPE). It, also, addresses how to use benchmarking in measuring and improving organizational performance; and provides an updated methodology for benchmarking in order to enable organizations to adopt best practices and excel.
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| MIST115 - Fundamentals of MIS |
(3 credit hours) |
Data and information, Information systems theory, information quality, decision making, and the organizational role of management information systems are introduced. This course provides an introduction to information technology and application software. It also introduces students to how information is used in organizations and how information technology enables improvement in decision making at all managerial levels. Topics include: business as a system; systems components; computer based information systems, types of information systems; what is MIS; quality of information; specification, design and engineering or reengineering of information systems; application versus system software; procedural versus non-procedural programming languages; database features, functions, architecture; telecommunications applications; characteristics of MIS professionals and MIS career paths, MIS ethics.
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- INTU1222 or INTU1232 or INTU1302 or INTU1212 or INTU1405
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| MIST170 - Introduction to Programming&FS |
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This course provides an exposure to algorithm development, programming, computer concepts, and the design and application of data and file structures. It includes the use of logical and physical structures for both programs and data. It introduces MIS students to business programming applications by providing them with the skills necessary to design and implement programs and user interfaces. This course covers fundamentals of object-oriented program development using top-down design, structured programming and debugging, testing and implementation, and elementary data structures. Java programming language is used as the software tool for students to learn about the fundamentals of programming for business applications.
Topics include: data structures and presentation: characters, records, and files; precision of data; information representation, organization, and storage; algorithm development; programming control structures; program correctness; verification, and validation; file structures and representation; programming in traditional and visual development environments that incorporate event-driven, object-oriented design.
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| MIST200 - Foundation of MIS&Technologies |
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Management information systems and technologies are an integral part of all business activities and careers. This course is designed to introduce students to contemporary information systems and demonstrate how these systems are used throughout organizations. The focus of this course will be on the key components of management information systems and technologies - people, software, hardware, data, and communication technologies, and how these components can be integrated and managed to create competitive advantage. Through the knowledge of how MIST provides a competitive advantage students will gain an understanding of how information is used in businesses and how business information technologies enable improvement in quality, speed, and agility. This course also provides an introduction to business information systems and development concepts, business information technology acquisition, and various types of application software that have become prevalent or are emerging in modern organizations and society.
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- INTU1312 or INTU1212 or INTU1302 or INTU1405
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| MIST210 - Computer Applica. in Business |
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Information Technology (IT) and information systems (IS) are becoming core elements of any business. This course is directly concerned with the role of computers in business systems and different business functions. It focuses on the ingredients of student knowledge necessary for success in business administration and to cope with the challenges inherent in the implementation of rapidly advanced information technologies and systems. The course emphasis is on the practical implementation of real-world models rather than traditional theoretical concepts. The course active learning approach encourages the student to focus on developing skills in “how” to build a model while summarizing the mathematical logic as to “why” the model is constructed.
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| MIST215 - Computer Applica. in Business |
(3 credit hours) |
Information Technology (IT) and information systems (IS) are becoming core elements of any business. This course is directly concerned with the role of computers in business systems and different business functions. It focuses on the ingredients of student knowledge necessary for success in business administration and to cope with the challenges inherent in the implementation of rapidly advanced information technologies and systems. The course emphasis is on the practical implementation of real-world models rather than traditional theoretical concepts. The course active learning approach encourages the student to focus on developing skills in “how” to build a model while summarizing the mathematical logic as to “why” the model is constructed.
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| MIST220 - MIS Analysis & Logical Design |
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This course discusses the processes, methods, techniques and tools that organizations use to determine how they should conduct their business, with a particular focus on how computer-based technologies can most effectively contribute to the way business is organized and business processes are managed. The course covers a systematic methodology for analyzing a business problem or opportunity, determining what role, if any, computer-based technologies can play in addressing the business need, articulating business requirements for the technology solution, specifying alternative approaches to acquiring the technology capabilities needed to address the business requirements, and specifying the requirements for the business information systems solution in particular, in-house development, development from third-party providers, or purchased commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) packages.
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| MIST270 - Computer Util. in Business |
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This project-oriented course covers advanced systems development and programming MIS issues using VB.NET and ASP for applications. Team projects simulate real-world MIS situations, and strengthen interpersonal, leadership, and project management skills. This course is designed to teach students how to develop custom applications in today?s business world.
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| MIST280 - E-Bus. Strategy, Arch.& Design |
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This course focuses on the examination of e-business, its infrastructure, business models, challenges, and promises. The course will provide an overview of e-Business (business that takes place online) and will also cover e-commerce (e-business that is related to buying/selling on line). The course will also help the students arrive at a clear definition of e-business. The course makes use of short cases to illustrate the nature of e-business and how key business processes may be transformed into e-business applications.
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| MIST320 - Data & Information Management |
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This course provides the students with an introduction to the core concepts in data and information management. It is centered around the core skills of identifying organizational information requirements, modeling them using conceptual data modeling techniques, converting the conceptual data models into relational data models and verifying its structural characteristics with normalization techniques, and implementing and utilizing a relational database using an industrial-strength database management system. The course will also include coverage of basic database administration tasks and key concepts of data quality and data security. In addition to developing database applications, the course helps the students understand how large-scale packaged systems are highly dependent on the use of DBMSs. Building on the transactional database understanding, the course provides an introduction to data and information management technologies that provide decision support capabilities under the broad business intelligence umbrella.
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| MIST360 - MIS Project Mgmt. & Practice |
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This course discusses the processes, methods, techniques and tools that organizations use to manage their business information systems projects. The course covers a systematic methodology for initiating, planning, executing, controlling, and closing projects. This course assumes that project management in the modern organization is a complex team-based activity, where various types of technologies (including project management software as well as software to support group collaboration) are an inherent part of the project management process. This course also acknowledges that project management involves both the use of resources from within the firm, as well as contracted from outside the organization.
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| MIST380 - Web Applications Development |
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This course offers an introductory coverage of the Internet and online Web technologies. Students will learn how to plan, create, and maintain static and dynamic web pages. It exposes MIS students to scripting languages showing how they are used in Client/Server Web Applications. Students will learn the internal and external considerations of planning, designing, creating, and maintaining dynamic interactive web sites. This course includes developing database driven Web applications using the PHP scripting language and a database such as MySQL or InterBase. Emphasis is on concepts and techniques required to build multi-tier applications.
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| MIST420 - Business Intelligence & PM |
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This course aims to develop understanding about the essentials of Business Intelligence (BI), Data Warehousing, Business Analytics, Data Visualization, Business Data Mining and Business Performance Management (BPM) Systems. Focus will be on use of above technologies in decision support systems and business performance management. The course also covers BI and BPM concepts, methodologies, and technologies. Through lectures, case studies and class discussions this course focuses to develop participants’ ability to identify key decision variables, critical success factors, key performance indicators (KPIs) that are affecting business performance and subsequently monitor the same using business intelligence systems using online analytical process (OLAP) and other performance management (BPM) techniques. This course helps participants to develop a connection between BI and BPM by using the output of business intelligence systems as input for BPM. The idea of using BI and BPM hand-in-hand revolves around the concept that any kind of knowledge created locally (within an organization) is a corporate resource and hence should be managed effectively using appropriate tools, techniques and methodology.
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| MIST430 - Info. Tech. Infrastructure |
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National and regional information technology development strategies and policies are studied; IT and national sovereignty; development and control of global information infrastructure GII; impact of GII on UAE National Information Infrastructure; impact of public and business policies on information systems design and use; international institutions and IT: convergence or divergence of information systems across countries, regions and international economic sectors.
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| MIST460 - Enterprise Sys.& MIST Strategy |
(3 credit hours) |
This course explores the issues and approaches in managing the business information systems function (BIS) in organizations and how the BIS function integrates / supports / enables various types of organizational capabilities. It takes a senior management perspective in exploring the acquisition, development and implementation of plans and policies to achieve efficient and effective BIS. The course addresses issues such as enterprise information systems integrate information and business processes across functional areas. The ideas developed and cultivated in this course are intended to provide an enduring perspective that can help leaders make sense of an increasingly globalized and technology intensive business environment. The students will gain an appreciation of the scope of enterprise information systems and the motivation for implementing them.
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| MIST610 - Information System in Business |
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Students will examine how strategic information technology (IT) enables organizations to conduct business in radically different and more effective ways. The availability of the Internet, new channels of supply and distribution, and the infrastructure of firms and the industries within which they operate are examined. The course will assist executives to understand global business challenges and to keep abreast of events in order to make intelligent plans and decisions.
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| MIST615 - Management of Tech.&Innovation |
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This course focuses on coverage of the topics of managing technology in general and technological innovations in particular. It aims at providing rich exposure to the students on management of innovation in manufacturing and information technologies. Topics covered include: disruptive technologies, strategic management of technology, new product development, technological change management, corporate entrepreneurship and innovation, diffusion of of innovation, and chain of innovation activities. This course also features action-oriented cases to involve students and increase relevance.
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| MIST620 - Bus. Intel&Bus. Perfor. Mgmnt. |
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This course aims to develop an understanding about the essentials of business intelligence; data warehousing; business analytics; data visualization; and data, text and web mining. Focus will be on using the above technologies in decision support systems and business performance management. Through lectures, case studies, and class discussions this course aims to develop the participants? ability to identify key performance indicators (KPIs) that are affecting business performance and subsequently monitor the same using decision support and business intelligence systems, online analytical process (OLAP), and other performance management (BPM) techniques.
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| MIST625 - Management of Technology |
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Management of Technology is at the intersection of science, engineering, management and behavioral science. It is a critical element in corporate and national competitive strategies. Managing technology is a powerful tool companies use to compete in an increasingly challenging global economy. It requires an understanding of how science becomes a technology, how technologies are developed into products, how products meet market demands. It also requires understanding how companies control their internal functions to exploit new technologies and markets. This course addresses management of technology and innovations in manufacturing and information technologies. Topics include: disruptive technologies, change management, diffusion of innovations, corporate and technology strategies, information and communication technologies (ICT), sustainable manufacturing models,
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| MIST630 - Strategic IS Management |
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This course is about information systems strategy and management from a top management perspective. Information technology (IT) is an integral part of most products and services of the post-industrial society of the 21st century and has changed the top management job. Topics include business models and organization forms in the information age, IT as a business enabler, IT and competitive strategy, information for management control, analysis and redesign of business structure and processes, knowledge management and information networks, interorganizational networks, sourcing strategies, interfacing with the IT function, reliability and security, and ethical and policy issues. The course relies extensively on the case method and the students will supplement their analyses with current information obtained from the Web, or directly from the firms under study in the cases.
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| MIST640 - Business Intelligence & BPM |
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This course aims to develop understanding about the essentials of Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, Business Analytics, Data Visualization, Data, Text and Web Mining. Focus will be on use of above technologies in decision support systems and business performance management. The course also covers decision support systems concepts, methodologies, and technologies. Through lectures, case studies and class discussions this course aims to develop participants? ability to identify key performance indicators (KPIs) that are affecting business performance and subsequently monitor the same using decision support and business intelligence systems using online analytical process (OLAP) and other performance management (BPM) techniques.
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| MIST650 - e-Bus:Tech,Strateg,Application |
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This course provides a managerial perspective on e-commerce applications and their use in adding business value to the organization. The emphasis is on the tactical and strategic applications of ecommerce, and the major issues involved in their implementations. This course covers the different types of e-commerce, such as B2C and B2B while addressing the critical issues facing the modern organization conducting electronic commerce. Managerial topics also include new business models associated with e-commerce; mobile commerce; e-payment and e-security issues, e-government initiatives, on-line consumer behavior and legal and regulatory issues.
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| MIST660 - Enterprise IS |
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Traditionally information systems have been introduced into organizations as functionally specialized applications serving the specific needs of individual departments. Enterprise Information Systems, more commonly referred to as ERP systems, provide a more holistic view of the organization, helping eliminate narrower departmental perspectives. Introducing ERP applications has the potential of adding enormously to organizational value, if undertaken properly. This course discusses how these applications can best be applied to realize those organizational benefits and will discuss the associated topics of supply chain management (SCM), human resource management (HRM), customer relationship management (CRM) and knowledge management (KM).
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| MKTG200 - Principles of Marketing |
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This course provides students with knowledge about the importance of marketing as a basic function in enterprises, which deal with goods, services, and ideas. It clarifies the marketing functions related to the marketing mix: product, price, place, and promotion. It also describes the ultimate consumer and industrial buyer and the marketing strategies needed to deal with them. This course covers the different types of marketing enterprises and some other topics such as international marketing and services marketing. This course uses both the qualitative and quantitative methods in presenting and analyzing data.
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| MKTG310 - Marketing Research |
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This course provides students with the conceptual and the analytical aspects of marketing research. It is structured from the point of view of the marketing manager, consultant or entrepreneur who uses marketing research to make key business decisions. It covers topics of research design, dissemination of appropriate data, scaling and questionnaire construction, sampling procedure, data collection methods, data analysis and interpretation, and reporting.
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| MKTG320 - Consumer Behavior |
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A study of the concepts, techniques, and models of consumer behavior including the decision making processes and the influence of environmental forces. The study of psychological and social factors that influence buying decisions are discussed as well as the managerial implications for planning executing, and evaluating marketing strategies. Theories of consumer behavior to develop managerial frameworks for the development and launch of new products, segmentation, and brand management.
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| MKTG330 - Services Marketing |
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The main objective of this course is to enhance the importance of services and the unique challenges faced by managers of services. The course covers marketing theories and practices in the areas of banking, insurance, tourism, hospitals, and other services.
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| MKTG340 - International Marketing |
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The course covers different aspects of international marketing activities from the perspective of small and medium size firms as well as multinationals with special emphasis on GCC countries. At the macro level, the course covers the environment of international marketing, institutional aspects, mechanisms, and recent developments that affect marketing activities. At the micro level, the course deals with the development and formulation of the firm international marketing strategy.
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| MKTG420 - Strategic Marketing Mgmt. |
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The objective of this course is to study marketing within the overall corporate system of business policy-making. The course introduces the strategic context of marketing including the concepts and theories of creating and implementing the marketing strategy.
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| MKTG605 - Marketing Mgmnt. in an E-Age |
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A senior managerial approach to advanced problems in marketing with primary emphasis on case studies that examine structural complexities facilitated by electronic communication and choice of marketing tools. New knowledge and value propositions are developed using strategic marketing plans and decisions commensurate to changing needs of sophisticated consumers, markets, and multinational corporations. Current trends to translate to corporate proficiency, profitability, and sustainability in a competitive global marketplace are evaluated.
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| MKTG610 - Contemporary Issues in Cust.Be |
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Today?s customers (i.e. ultimate consumer and industrial buyer) are more sophisticated than ever due to a large number of domestic and global stimuli that affect their buying behavior. This course aims to familiarize students with the nature and behavior of industrial and consumer markets. The purpose is to investigate the customer behavior paradox and explore the customers? black box in order to understand how customers make specific decision and behave in different situations and circumstances. Understanding the nature of contemporary customers is an important issue in maintaining and enhancing profit outcomes of a business. Using information about customer behavior, students will learn how to develop and implement appropriate marketing strategies.
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| SCML200 - Supply Chain MGMT& Operations |
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This course focuses on methods and principles of operations & supply chain management to create value in manufacturing and service firms. Value can be thought of as either doing things faster, more flexibly or provide more variety, with higher quality, and/or at lower cost. The course offers basic methods of creating value through operations and supply chains, quality management, process and layout decisions, planning and controlling operations and supply chains through just-in-time techniques, inventory planning, and procurement and sourcing decisions. Examples will include manufacturing, service, and government applications.
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| SCML310 - Supply Chain& Logistics Model |
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This course addresses supply chain modeling and important supply chain operations decisions at the strategic, tactical, and operational level. Topics include linear programming, facility location, optimal customer assignment, optimal vehicle routing in distribution, networks, and decision analysis. The emphasis is on optimizing processes and systems in manufacturing, services, and government.
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| SCML320 - Procurement &Supply Management |
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This course provides a comprehensive grounding in the differences between strategic and tactical aspects of purchasing, and covers the procurement process and the role of the procurement function within any organization. It addresses the purchasing function's role in fulfilling the organization's operations and competitive strategies, supplier evaluation/selection and development, relationships with suppliers, supplier base management, supply information systems/e-commerce, purchasing services, negotiation, commodity planning, ethics; and cost, price, and value analysis. Applications in manufacturing, services, and government.
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| SCML330 - Logistics& Transportation Mgmt |
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Transportation and logistics are the elements of supply chain management by which materials are stored and moved from points of origin to production, and products are stored and moved from points of production to consumption. This course examines distribution techniques, the major modes of transportation, their respective capabilities and limitations, business models, and management practices. The course also examines the role of government in the transportation industry, order processing, facility design and operations, carrier selection, transportation costing, and negotiation techniques. Applications in manufacturing and services.
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| SCML410 - Global Supply Chain& Logistics |
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Advanced study of supply chain management and the management functions involved in the design, production, and movement of goods and services on a global scale. This course integrates the concepts and tools of a SCM approach with emphasis on managing globally. Topics include identifying/managing risks, dynamic supply chain alignment, global supply chain issues, service networks, international contracts/documents, and development/maintenance of international buyer-supplier relationships/alliances and global practices.
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| SCML460 - Supply Chain Applic. Strategy |
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This capstone course covers a comprehensive range of supply chain and logistics topics and case studies across product, service and government settings. This course builds on the skills and concepts acquired in previous supply chain courses. Topics include strategic supply chains, supply chain design, and the role of supply chain management in attaining and sustaining competitive advantage.
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| SCML655 - Supply Chain Management |
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In today’s economies, competition increasingly takes place between supply chains, and no longer at the inter-firm level. Enabled through information technology, supply chain management addresses the integrative approach of managing all activities related to products/services from the point of origin to the point of consumption. This course covers the major issues in supply chain management including supply chain performance and strategic alignment, supply chain optimization and network design, inventory and safety stock management, forecasting, aggregate planning, sourcing principles, and supply chain coordination. At the end of this course students should be familiar with the individual components of a supply chain and their interrelationships. Students will develop analytical skills to analyze, model and solve supply chain problems, using appropriate software. The course is based on a mixture of lectures and case discussions.
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