Contact Person: Sally Riggs Fuller, Interim Chair • (813) 974-1766
Success in any organization depends to a large extent on how it is set up and on how the people within it behave. The study of Management and Organization addresses these issues at two levels-interpersonally and organizationally. At one level, Management and Organization examines how and why people (including ourselves) behave as we do. This is an area of importance for managers in all disciplines. Management and Organization also addresses how the structure of the organization affects the behavior of the people within it, giving emphasis to the factors that affect cooperation, competition, and change.
This track can be completed by taking three courses in the department. An advanced track can be completed by taking five courses in the department.
- GEB 6930 Lean Management
- One-week immersion into the principles of Lean, Six Sigma, and other Business Process Improvement tools used in both manufacturing and services businesses. Participants attend five consecutive days from 8 to 5 with some expectations for outside work during the week. The course is taught by a team of USF faculty from the College of Business and the College of Engineering, using a creative mix of interactive exercises, cases, and lecture presentations. Outside specialists in Lean, Six Sigma, and BPI also come to share their perspectives and experience. Off-campus tours to local firms cement the principles taught in the course. All coursework for this three-credit course is completed in five days.
Food and beverages will be provided during class time. Students are expected to attend, network, or work on their projects during all meal functions.
Faculty: Jerry Kohler and Ron Satterfield - MAN 6107 Leading Sustainable Enterprises: Goals and Processes Variable Credit – select 3 credits
(Formerly: Leadership Perspective) - Examines the leadership role and responsibilities for sustainable organizational performance through analysis of the triple bottom line: financial performance, social responsibility, and concern for the natural environment.
Faculty: Alan Balfour - MAN 6116 Diversity and Organizational Justice (Formerly MAN 6930)
- Course deals with questions, dimensions of style and structure, problems and paradigms of solutions that come out of management experience of a changing workforce during the past twenty years. Emerging styles of leadership among people of diverse cultural backgrounds will be explored as solutions, not as problems.
Faculty: Sally Fuller - MAN 6149 Leadership and Teams
- Explores the nature of leadership and its effects of team dynamics in organizations. Focus is on managerial leadership and includes a broad survey of theory and research on leadership and teams in organizations.
Faculty: Jerry Koehler, Sally Fuller - MAN 6256 Politics and Control in Organizations
- Examines the understanding of power processes (politics and control) in and around organizations at several levels – individual, small groups, organizational and, to a lesser degree, societal. In addition, explores the power relationships between organizations and the larger political/economic systems of which they are a part. Major work in social science related to power is surveyed.
Faculty: Walter Nord - MAN 6289 Organizational Change and Development
- Provides a discipline for improving organization effectiveness and member fulfillment by means of planned change.
Faculty: Staff - MAN 6305 Human Resources Management
- Focuses on the complex decision-making processes involved in the management of human resources within an organizational system geared to meeting both individual needs and organizational objectives.
Faculty: Staff - MAN 6448 Negotiating Agreement and Resolving Conflict
- Presents overview of conflict resolution in organizations. Specifically, this course provides a background in negotiation, medication, ombudsmen and investigator systems, peer review boards, arbitration and dispute resolution.
Faculty: Charles Michaels - MAN 6456 Improvisation in Business Organizations (Formerly MAN 6930)
- The purpose of this course is to develop skills for managers and organization members using improvisation metaphors discussed in organization studies literature and experiential exercises from organizational behavior and theatrical improvisation. Students will learn and apply the underlying concepts of improvisation including good communication, creative thinking, rapid response, concentration, focus, and teamwork. All coursework for this three-credit course is completed in five days.
Food and beverages will be provided during class time. Students are expected to attend, network, or work on their projects during all meal functions.
Faculty: Cynthia Cohen - MAN 6607 Managing International Cultural Differences
- Examines the functions, activities, and interpersonal skills required of managers in multinational, multicultural organizations with specific attention given to select regions of the world. Focus is on how existence of different cultures affects management behavior and builds interpersonal skills to accommodate success.
Faculty: Charles Michaels, Alan Balfour - MAN 6726 Strategic Planning
- Examines techniques to creatively envision and analyze the future to prepare individuals and organizations for future opportunities and threats. Designed to familiarize students with techniques for analyzing the future, critical issues, and how the future will impact them as individuals.
Faculty: Michael Bowen - MAN 6930 Executive Leadership
- This course is designed for students who aspire to be top executives in triple bottom line organizations. Topics include classical approaches, influences, power, behaviors, contingency theories, gender, charismatic and transformational leadership. Further, it addresses the executive leadership role in the influence and development of the following organization processes: strategy, structure, management systems, motivation, decision-making, human resources policy, culture, communication, team innovation, control, and change.
Faculty: Jerry Koehler - MAN 6930 Management Through Constructive Persuasion
- Management is a function of consensus building, motivating employees and convincing others. Selling concepts and services often requires effective persuasion. Effective persuasion is the ability to present a message in a way that leads others to support it. Real persuasion creates a sense of freedom – listeners and readers freely choose your perspective and support it. There is no commanding, just solid evidence coupled with emotional appeal, presented in a compelling fashion. This course explores many of the methods and applies them in a contemporary business setting. All coursework for this three-credit course is completed in five days.
Food and beverages will be provided during class time. Students are expected to attend, network, or work on their projects during all meal functions.
Faculty: Dennis Schrag
