This course focuses on how leaders can practically create culture and systems that allow people to accomplish, grow, produce, and thrive at work. Topics taught can include hiring, fostering culture, performance management, benefits and pay, coaching, and effective organizational structures among others. The course emphasizes case examples and troubleshooting issues in human capital development, with specific attention to human resources law and ethics.
This course is a foundational study of procedures and techniques of business systems. Learners will gain a better understanding of the environment of business, business ownership and entrepreneurship, organization and management, human resources, marketing, managing information, business accounting, and business finance.
This course is designed to provide a general foundation of leadership theory and skills to help students better understand themselves, as well as work with others. Students will be exposed to leadership research literature, as well as have the opportunity to self-assess their personal leadership behaviors and traits. This course will focus primarily on the core behaviors and perspectives needed for successful and ethical leadership.
This course introduces the fundamental principles of decision theory, combining theoretical knowledge with practical application. The course covers various evidence-based decision-making models, techniques and Excel-based problem solving applied to business settings.
This course focuses on the design of compelling visual narratives for data-driven decision-making. In this course, students will learn to understand and create dashboards, interpret complex datasets, and communicate insights via short debriefings.
In this seminar course, students practice the writing, critical thinking, technology, and communication skills necessary for success as they progress through the academic program through case studies, workshops, and other activities. Restricted to online MBA program students.
This course provides exploration of financial accounting and reporting, financial analysis, managerial and cost accounting, and budgeting in health care. Students will be able to apply financial techniques to the analysis of the health care environment, to improving value in health care services and to organizational decision making.
This course examines legal and ethical issues affecting health care institutions and the management of risk within the organization. The content of the course will include an overview of the legal and regulatory constraints of the health care industry along with practical application of the laws that affect operational decisions within healthcare. Topics include demand, supply, redistribution and the role of the government, risk management, and the ethical implications of current financial practices and economic imperatives. Restricted to online MBA program students.
This course focuses on identifying, measuring, and seeking to improve health care quality, patient satisfaction, cost, and employee engagement. Various models of process/quality improvement will be analyzed to equip the learner to be proactive as a change agent while using strong interprofessional communication skills. Restricted to online MBA program students.
Students apply research and analysis techniques to investigate an issue or solve a problem in an organization including a determination of the return on investment (ROI) of the solution. Experience is gained in defining research problems, designing a project, relating pertinent literature, and in collecting, analyzing, recording, and interpreting data. Restricted to online MBA program students.