Undergraduate Courses 2018-19

This course provides students with a systematic approach to acquiring a solid foundation in the principles and current practices of management. The focus of the course is about the interaction between individuals (managers) and the organization. We will explore what managers do through discussion of the four fundamental functions of managers, namely planning, organizing, leading and controlling. Topics include: evolution of management theories, environmental influences on management, organizational culture, strategic management, organizational design, change management, organizational control and human resources management.

Leading people effectively is a tremendous challenge, a great opportunity, and a serious responsibility. This course is about developing your full potential as a leader. The focus will be on skills development so that you can use leadership theories and concepts to improve your leadership skills. Topics include leadership traits and behavior theories, leadership values, the team concept and group dynamics and leader as coach and developer of people. Interactive class activities will be conducted including videos, discussions and self-assessment exercises.

Decision making is a central human activity, but how good are we at it? Scientific evidence suggests that our decisions are often biased and flawed, resulting in disappointing or even disastrous outcomes. This course draws upon contemporary research in psychology and other social sciences to better understand how it is that people make decisions, and why those decisions are often made badly. The course will emphasize a theoretical understanding of human decision making, as well as a comprehension of the real world implications of our mistakes both for us and for our society, and what, if anything, can be done about it.

This course presents and exemplifies three major traditions of ethical thought in East and West moral philosophy - namely utilitarianism, principle-based ethics and virtue-based ethics. Employing guest speakers, lectures, cases, contemporary readings, role-plays, fieldwork, reflective student writing, and discussion groups, the course engages students in a serious consideration of their own ethical standards as applied to their present academic environment and their future careers. Students come to understand through this course that while an ethical dilemma may be viewed in various ways depending on one's guiding assumptions, a decision and course of action nevertheless must be chosen in harmony with one's own moral convictions. For Business students only.

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.

Taking a discussion-based approach to examining ethical issues in a corporate context, this intermediate business ethics course will focus mainly on the ethical issues related to the interaction between business and society. Students will further develop their ethical knowledge, moral reasoning skills, and attitudes towards social responsibility by considering the overarching corporate implications of their decisions. This highly interactive course will draw upon relevant current issues to help students understand (and overcome) some of the real-world challenges that business executives confront.

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

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.

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.

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

This course covers strategic opportunities arising from environmental risks. Public and regulatory demand for environmental products and services must co-exist with the need for corporations to maximize shareholder wealth. The course examines both theoretical and practical issues that arise in attempting to balance the health of the natural environment with value creation. Is there an inherent conflict between the institutions of business and our ability to care for the environment? What competitive opportunities are created for firms and what do they have to do to seize these opportunities? Lessons from the course will be interest to the students of strategy and the environment. Restricted to MGMT and BBA students.

This course will focus on specific CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) issues facing companies today. Along with changing attitudes, new global regulatory CSR requirements are increasingly putting firms under pressure to demonstrate positive social and environmental impacts, while maintaining their commitments to investors. Students will investigate how actual firms are managing these pressures while continuing to address the needs of their stakeholders. Incorporating aspects of the benchmark standards such as the GRI and various ESG (Environmental Social Governance) initiatives will help students to strengthen their own knowledge, skill, and attitudes in this area. The course has an embedded project, with direct links to one or more businesses, which will give students the necessary practical grounding for effectively understanding the challenges of CSR in the contemporary business environment.

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

Faculty directed independent study. May be graded letter grades or P/F subject to different offerings.

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.

This is an interactive course that introduces knowledge about the creation and management of new business ventures. Attention is also given to key issues in corporate entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and family businesses.

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.

This is a tri-model learning course that simulates everyday, practical decision-making by shadowing a real-life business. Students will spend time in the location of the company, reflecting on the work of the executives and the decisions they make related to strategy, operations and crisis. They will undertake a strategy project and prepare a report and presentation to the company executives at the end of the project. Students will also take part in a crisis simulation exercises set on real-life crisis that the executives have experienced. Student enrollment in this course requires the approval of the course instructor.

In today's competitive business world, organizations need to implement training and development initiatives to continuously cultivate their human resources. This course aims to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the training and developing process in organizations. Topics include training needs assessment, learning motivation, theories of learning, transfer of training, training methods, and training evaluation. The course will also examine special topics of interest such as cross-cultural training, career development, and the role of information technology and social responsibility in training and development.