BUSN270 - Principles of Management   

*Note: BUSN270 is an ONLINE class, and the classroom can be found at http://blackboard.highline.edu.

Required Text: Management Fundamentals. 2nd Edition.  Robert Lussier.  Thompson/Southwestern, 2003. The text is available at the Highline CC Bookstore, or online at http://www.highlinebookstore.com/.

Required Readings: In addition to the text, you will be required to read current articles and web content. You will be expected to apply text and articles to assignments and tests.

PowerPoint Slides:

Course Description: This course focuses on the manager’s responsibility to effectively and efficiently manage resources to accomplish organizational goals.  Students build and apply skills in the four primary management functions: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.  Skills and concepts include analyzing and adapting to internal and external environment, understanding global management issues, ethical responsibility, organizational goal setting and planning, decision making, organizing, managing change, human resources, diversity, understanding human behavior and motivation, communication, teamwork and productivity.

Special focus is placed on the following two areas:
·  Managing in an increasingly diverse environment.
·  Adapting management techniques to a rapidly changing environment.

Assessment: Grades will be earned through:

• Assignments – 30%
• Class and group participation – 30%
• Tests -- 40%

Web Access: Access to a computer and the internet are suggested for this course.

Late work: Points for class participation cannot be made up. Other work can be turned in up to one week late, with a late penalty of 20%. No assignments later than one week will be accepted.

Makeup Exams:  You are limited to one excused makeup exam per quarter.  There is a 40% penalty for all exams taken “late” after your first excused exam.  An exam qualifies as excused if you notify the instructor via phone or email no later than the end of day on the scheduled day of the exam.

Academic Integrity: Education assumes a high level of trust between the instructor and students. You will be expected to communicate with class members and the instructor in a professional and respectful manner. All work must be the product of your own efforts and, if you are referencing outside sources, you must site those sources in your work.

Statements on Accessibility: If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability; if you have emergency medical information to share with the instructor; or if you need special arrangements in case the building must be evacuated, please provide the instructor with a Letter of Accommodation from the Office of Access Services. Access Services is located in Building 6 in the Student Development Center.

Cell Phones: Please turn off your phone when you come to class.

Class Completion: Students must complete the first 8 weeks of course work with a passing grade (at least 0.7, or 62%) to be eligible for an incomplete grade. Discuss the possibility of earning an incomplete grade with me prior to last week of instruction.

Class Schedule: (Subject to change – please note in class when changes are made.)
 

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