Proposed Management Courses

Executive Food Marketing Program

Original FME Curriculum

Four 1.33 credit courses

Proposed FME Curriculum

4.5 credits of MGT

Leadership & Development ?

Managing Workforce Diversity ?

Building High Performance Teams ?

Managing Change ?

MGT in FME

Goals

• Add strong Organizational Behavior component to program.– For students to better empower themselves and

organizational members effectively, creatively and ethically.

• Assist students to develop and hone their leadership capabilities.

• Establish continuity in the Management subject matter across curricula.

Proposed Change

THREE REQUIRED 1.5 CREDIT COURSES

Empowering INDIVIDUAL POTENTIAL for the Practicing Executive

Empowering GROUPS & TEAMS for the Practicing Executive

Leadership & Development (no change)

Eliminate MGT 6000, Management Foundation

FME 7811: Empowering Individual Potential for the Practicing Executive

This course focuses on an organization’s most salient resource—the power of its human capital. It investigates the foundation of, and strategies for, empowering organizational members to manage organizational transformation processes from an executive perspective. Empowering individual human potential requires an understanding of how to manage one’s self and other individuals effectively, creatively, and ethically in work organizations. This course investigates executive strategies for enhancing individual performance through learning about motivation, perception, personality and other dimensions of human behavior. No prerequisites.

FME 7812: Empowering Groups and Teams for the Practicing ExecutiveThis course focuses on an organization’s most salient resource—the power of its human capital. It investigates the foundation of, and strategies for, empowering organizational members to manage organizational transformation processes from an executive perspective. Empowering groups requires an understanding of how to manage collectivities of individuals in a variety of work organization settings. This course investigates strategies for enhancing group performance and facilitating interpersonal processes that lead to effective, creative, and ethical executive action. No prerequisites.

FME 7302: Leadership & Development

What is leadership? How do I realize my leadership potential? This course is designed for executives who want to develop and hone their leadership skills and approaches. Successful completion of the course will enable participants to (1) identify and understand the keys to successful leadership, (2) analyze their own leadership styles and behaviors and receive feedback on the appropriateness and effectiveness of their styles, (3) develop the decision-making skills needed for leadership, (4) understand approaches for developing and empowering employees, and (5) inspire organizational change. Prerequisite: Either FME 7811 or FME 7812. Recommended: Both 7811 and 7812.

Decision Today

Adopt Management recommended courses for Executive Food Marketing Program:

-- Empowering Individual Potential for the Practicing Executive (1.5 credits)

-- Empowering Groups & Teams for the Practicing Executive (1.5 credits)

-- Continue Leadership & Development (1.5 credits)

Next Steps

GOAL: Achieve continuity in the Management component across all Graduate programs while addressing uniqueness of each

Specifically:Organizational Behavior and Leadership

& Development in all graduate programs

Organizational BehaviorCurrently:• MBA – Empowering Human Potential at Work (3 credits)

• EMBA – Organizational Behavior (20-month) (2 credits)

Proposing Now:• FME – Empowering Individual Potential (1.5 credits)

-- Empowering Groups & Teams (1.5 credits)

Next:• PME – Change Management Foundation to combined

Empowering Individual & Group/Teams – required (2.0 credits)

• EMBA – Add Organizational Behavior (12-month)?

Leadership & Development

Currently:• EMBA – Leadership I and II• FME – Leadership & Development• PME – Leadership & Development

Next:• MBA? – currently incorporated in Empowering Human

Potential (MBA 4535)