Undergraduate Courses 2017-18

For non-SB&M students. Introductory organizational behavior. Major topics include personality, motivation, communication, leadership, work teams, work design, performance systems, change and culture, and organization structure.

Human behavior and behavioral issues in organizations studied from the perspective of the individual and that of the organization.

This course focuses on issues and cases on interactions between business, society, and the individual. It addresses potential conflict areas in various disciplines, and shows how competing goals of various stakeholders may be resolved.

Manpower planning, job analysis and design, recruitment, performance appraisal, compensation, training and development, health and safety at work and discrimination.

Leading people effectively is a tremendous challenge, a great opportunity, and a serious responsibility. Leaders and followers have existed since humans first organized into groups to accomplish a task. This is a course about managerial leadership in organizations. It investigates topics such as power and influence, leadership behavior, motivation, team management and leading change. The course blends leadership theories wtih leadership practices in organizations. Interactive class activities will be conducted including videos, discussions and self-assessment exercises.

Understand the nature of leadership and how it goes beyond managership. To develop an appreciation for the complexities of dealing with people who hold different values. To introduce, develop and encourage new strategies and techniques to enhance both teamwork and effectiveness in the workplace.

Theories and processes of negotiation; negotiation strategies; contextual factors in negotiation; other issues in negotiation.

This course will study groups of many kinds, as well as several factors and processes that influence their functioning. Focus is drawn from organizational settings (e.g. task forces and self-managing work teams).

Major techniques and approaches to the development and implementation of corporate strategies. Underlying concepts; analytical techniques; internal and external competitor analysis and evaluation of strategic options.

Problems and challenges in managing businesses ethically. Social responsibility, ethics of consumer production and marketing, gender and race, pollution, health and safety, information and communication, politics, trans-national considerations and ethical policy.

Current development issues in the field of organization and management; topics selected by instructors.

Faculty directed independent study.

Problems faced by small firms and basic skills needed for developing new business, including entrepreneurial strategies, legal and financial considerations and effective new venture management.

This course is about how people make decisions, with special emphasis on decision making in an organizational context. It attempts to provide an understanding of employee and manager decision making at two levels - the individual and the group.

Understanding and managing multinational corporations in different economic, social, cultural, legal and technological environments.

The overall goal of this course is to teach the students key theories and frameworks in strategic management and apply them to Chinese context. it takes a comparative perspective to analyze the similarities and differences in strategic management between East and West. It is case intensive course which involves extensive student participation in analyzing cases of business in China.

To meet the increasing demand from both the private and public sectors in local and international firms in Hong Kong, South East Asia and mainland China, Management Consulting is a course to be offered by faculty with consulting experience who will train students in management with the fundamental and practical skills to understand and analyse business problems in order to work out a number of scenarios for solving problems. More importantly, the students will be encouraged to work in teams and propose innovative and strategic consulting plans to meet a set of specified goals from time to time.