Today's workforce is diverse; individuals are frequently interacting with peers, managers and customers, each with different backgrounds, experiences, group affiliations, neurodiversity, sexual orientations, religions, and identities. With equity and respect, these differences can enhance performance and creativity; workplace diversity can also help to increase employee and customer engagement, contentment, and inclusion. This course explores ways in which employees and managers can cultivate an inclusive workplace culture and offers means for expanding appreciation of each individual's uniqueness. This course may review paradigms that limit and promote inclusion, such as unconscious biases, behavioral change, leadership, acknowledgement of the dimensions of diversity, and enforcement of patterns by employers, employees, and society as a whole. Recommended: MGMT 566.

This course addresses the nature, functions, and operations of the legal system and how legal rules affect business operations. Students examine the legal framework of laws, rules, health and safety regulations, and judicial opinions that have direct and profound impacts on managerial decision-making and practice. Considerable emphasis is placed on the federal, state, and local regulations that directly impact business practice; consumer laws, labor and employment law; and the social and ethical environment of business policy and management practice.

In this course, students examine how such issues as globalization, technology, the environment, business ethics, and business-government relations impact how businesses are managed. They also examine how leaders manage leaner and flatter organizations comprised of diverse employees working in teams. Students may explore the broad impacts of these contemporary management issues through reading, research, case studies, and active discussions.

This course recognizes the deep connection between global trade, technology, and innovation. Combining studies in global business and its responsible management with the specialized knowledge of technology and global innovation management gives students the opportunity to prepare for successful careers in a global environment for firms that compete on the basis of innovation in products and services. Students may learn how the product life-cycle influences the commercialization of new technology products in a diverse and ever-changing global market.