This course focuses on the many ways information technology is incorporated within contemporary organizations and used to achieve acompetitive advantage in the national and international marketplace. It focuses on the basic principles of Information Technology: hardware and software components, database technology, telecommunications and networking, e-commerce and e-business, Enterprise ResourcePlanning (ERP), Decision Support Systems (DSS), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Expert Systems (ES), systems development and implementation, and the ethical and societal issues involved in IT.
- Teacher: Sozy Azad
- Teacher: Anwar Ibrahim
- Teacher: Anwar Ibrahim
- Teacher: Ghaith Mustafa
Organizational Theory and Behavior aims at investigating and understanding the impact that individuals, groups, and organizations culture as well as structure have on behavior within organizations, for applying such knowledge toward improving the organization’s effectiveness. It is concerned with the study of what people do in an organization and the matters related to employee attitudes, satisfaction, personality, values, work groups, work teams, conflict, leadership power and politics and change management. Drawing from both classical and contemporary organizational theory, this course helps to critically assess organizational issues and propose evidence-based strategies for improving individual and collective outcomes.
- Teacher: Nida Kamal
This course introduces the student to the comprehensive responsibilities of Human Resource Management in today’s evolving and diverse business environment. It aims at familiarizing the students with how Human Resource Managers apply best practices, provide value, manage the global marketplace, and oversee talent in the workplace through augmentation of theoretical knowledge with real life examples through global cases and experiential exercises. Specific emphasis will be placed on the topics of job analysis and design, recruitment and selection, legal compliance, training and development, performance management, compensation and building and maintaining stakeholder relationships for enhancing individual performance as well as organizational effectiveness.
- Teacher: Nida Kamal
- Teacher: Anwar Ibrahim
The focus of this course is on the application of quantitative analysis techniques for strategic business decision making. Topics will include probability and descriptive statistics, survey construction, project management tools, forecasting methods and statistical process control. These quantitative decision support techniques assist managerial decision making in the world of business, including applications to finance, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, and quality, service and human resources problems.
- Teacher: Sozy Azad
This course considers the domestic and global economic environment of business and its impact on management planning and decision making. It aims to teach various concepts and analytical tools of economics as well as economic logic in order to help students to understand the economic issues and events occurring around them. This subject has two broad areas: Microeconomics focuses on how individual decision-makers behave and interact in markets. Macroeconomics sees the economy as composed of several broad groups of decision-makers-- particularly households, firms, and governments--and studies how the interaction of these groups affects the aggregate performance of the economy. The class combines these two complementary approaches. Economics topics covered include but are not limited to: how economics and the world of business are related, the supply and demand model and how markets work, costs of production, revenue and profit, the macroeconomic environment of businesses, GDP and economic growth, how government policies affect markets and economic performance, why inflation, recession and unemployment occur and their effects, comparative advantage and trade, globalization and multinational business, international trade and trading blocs, and the balance of payments.
- Teacher: Fahrettin Sumer
