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General Education/Transfer
Requisites
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Learning Objectives
Content
- Business Trends: Cultivating a Business in Diverse Global Environments
- Taking Risks and Making Profits within the Dynamic Business Environment
- Understanding How Economics Systems Affect Business
- Doing Business in Global Markets
- Demanding Ethical and Socially Responsible Behavior
- Business Ownership: Starting a Small Business
- How to Form a Business
- Entrepreneurship and Starting a Small Business
- Business Management: Empowering Employees to Satisfy Customers
- Management and Leadership
- Adapting Organizations to Today’s Markets
- Production and Operations Management
- Management of Human resource: Motivating Employees to Produce Quality Goods and Services
- Motivating Employees
- Human Resource Management: Finding and Keeping the Best Employees
- Dealing with Employee–Management Issues, laws, and Relationships
- Marketing: Elements in Developing and Implementing Customer-Oriented Marketing Plans with use of the marketing mix
- Marketing: Helping Buyers Buy
- Developing and Pricing Goods and Services
- Distributing Products
- Using Effective Promotions
- Managing Financial resources
- Understanding Accounting and Financial Statements and ratio analysis
- Financial Management
- Using Securities Markets for Financing and Investing Opportunities
- Money, Financial Institutions, and the Federal Reserve
Assignments
Method of Evaluation
Objective quizzes and exams that demonstrate the student's ability to apply principles of economics including supply and demand, human resource management and the functions of management, the four elements of marketing, financial statements and management in business settings.
Papers and essays that demonstrate the student's ability to conduct research, analyze, interpret, and apply concepts of business management within competitive market settings.
Application Journal demostrating the students ability to research and analyze business ownership and entrepreneurial mindset
Instructor evaluation of participation in class discussions that demonstrate the student's ability analyze the elements of case studies and recognize key factors of business operations including marketing elements.
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES
Cite the various ways the U.S. government affects, restricts, and protects business.
Compare and contrast primary economic systems.
Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages between various forms of business ownership.
Define and describe key management functions of planning, leading, organizing, and controlling.
Define ethics as it relates to business and explain the role of social responsibility in an organization.
Describe how marketers apply the tools of market segmentation, relationship marketing, and the study consumer behavior.
Describe the major financial statements used to indicate a firm's financial health and stability.
Describe the relationship between profit and risk, and discuss how businesses and nonprofit organizations can raise the standard of living for all.
Describe the Federal Reserve System and explain the ways it can control interest rates and the money supply.
Discuss the functions financial markets and their impact on business and investors.
Identify and prepare basic financial statements and explain how they interrelate.
Relate the planning process and decision making to the accomplishment of company goals.
Students will be able demonstrate understanding of the functions and components of a business plan.
Student Learning Outcomes
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- Business Trends: Cultivating a Business in Diverse Global Environments
- Taking Risks and Making Profits within the Dynamic Business Environment
- Understanding How Economics Systems Affect Business
- Doing Business in Global Markets
- Demanding Ethical and Socially Responsible Behavior
- Business Ownership: Starting a Small Business
- How to Form a Business
- Entrepreneurship and Starting a Small Business
- Business Management: Empowering Employees to Satisfy Customers
- Management and Leadership
- Adapting Organizations to Today’s Markets
- Production and Operations Management
- Management of Human resource: Motivating Employees to Produce Quality Goods and Services
- Motivating Employees
- Human Resource Management: Finding and Keeping the Best Employees
- Dealing with Employee–Management Issues, laws, and Relationships
- Marketing: Elements in Developing and Implementing Customer-Oriented Marketing Plans with use of the marketing mix
- Marketing: Helping Buyers Buy
- Developing and Pricing Goods and Services
- Distributing Products
- Using Effective Promotions
- Managing Financial resources
- Understanding Accounting and Financial Statements and ratio analysis
- Financial Management
- Using Securities Markets for Financing and Investing Opportunities
- Money, Financial Institutions, and the Federal Reserve
- Cite the various ways the U.S. government affects, restricts, and protects business.
- Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages in each form of business ownership.
- Define ethics as it relates to business and explain the role of social responsibility in an organization.
- Compare and contrast the primary economic systems.
- Define and describe the key management functions of planning organizing, leading, and controlling.
- Identify key human resource management functions and laws.
- Identify the marketing mix and key tools, terms and strategies related to each element.
- Discuss the functions of financial markets and their impact on business and investors.
- Evaluate the basic components of financial statements and ratio analysis.
- Identify securities markets including investment options, mechanisms of investing, and how to conduct basic analysis of business financial information.
- Explain the importance of finance to the operations of business; the various types of financing; and the process of internal and external financing and controls.
- Describe the Federal Reserve System and explain the ways it can control interest rates and the money supply.
- Reading
Assigned readings from the textbook and online sources reviewing,comparing and analyzing different economic systems, entrepreneurship and business ownership options,annual financial reports, marketing and promotional tools, human resources and legal issues in the work place, financial statements and ratios, and the Federal Reserve system. Assigned case studies that illustrate concepts of ethics and social responsibility.
- Writing
Application journal linking text material with personal experiences of business ownership and entrepreneurial mindset. Papers and essays on topics including ethical decision-making, advertising, leadership, and motivation and the functions of management.
- Oral Assignments
Conduct research of the marketing mix by locating and analyzing examples of advertising, product promotion and the legality of the business environment.
- Other Assignments
Participate in class discussions reviewing case studies and current events that illustrate business principles and practice including ethics and economics.
