Introduction to Business Administration

Explore how corporate social responsibility activates the local economy, strengthens reputation, and guides location decisions through community impact and environmental improvements.

Explore the fundamentals and four areas of corporate social responsibility: environment, customers, employees, and investors. Examine management approaches, arguments for and against CSR, and the process of meeting environmental standards.

Explore arguments for and against corporate social responsibility, and how managers balance profits with social goals through CSR, social responsiveness, and annual planning across environment, customers, employees, and investors.

Explore how ethics shape a business's impact on the world. Treat employees, customers, and investors with respect and pursue fair competition, not just obeying laws.

Explore why business ethics matter and how to create an ethical workplace through a code of ethics, legal requirements, training, enforcement, and ongoing review.

Explore how sustainability helps businesses endure economic and societal changes by meeting present needs without compromising future resources, boosting profits, productivity, and innovation through resource conservation and waste reduction.

Define sustainability and analyze how a sustainable organization meets present needs without hindering others' ability to meet future needs, focusing on economy, environment, and society.

Explore how workplace diversity evolves with a changing population, and how policies, training, and initiatives embrace workers from multiple cultural backgrounds to drive ideas and inclusion.

Examine workplace diversity, from surface level to deep level, and the managerial challenges, strategies, policies, and training needed to recruit, retain, and benefit from a diverse workforce.

Learn how global management drives international expansion by coordinating multinational corporations' processes and managing workforce risks to achieve sustainable objectives across borders.

Learn the fundamentals of international management, including domestic, international, and multinational organizations, plus ethics, expatriates and host country nationals, risk, and three managerial attitudes in a transnational framework.

Explore how management, entrepreneurship, and business ownership drive profit maximization across varied business forms. Examine variables from product labeling to branding, time, and resources to ensure successful ventures.

Plan and make decisions to establish goals and organizational objectives, then implement strategies to turn ideas into reality, while monitoring the market for adjustments and opportunities.

Master planning and decision making with strategic planning, management by objective, and forecasting tools to reduce uncertainty and guide future objectives.

Acting as the language of business, accounting helps owners and managers make daily financial decisions. Incorporate updates to financial statements and ratios to inform location, pricing, hiring, and budgeting decisions.

Explore key organizational functions through financial and managerial accounting, learning how accounting information and financial statements—balance sheet, income statement, cash flows—guide decision making for internal and external stakeholders.

Plan carefully, set goals, and assign tasks to complete objectives. Identify market changes, acquisitions and divestitures, gather information, assess structure, workflows, measures, and map roles.

Organize tasks by defining responsibilities and delegating authority, forming formal and informal structures, and applying departmentalization with vertical and horizontal designs to achieve organizational goals.

Explore how human resource management drives organizational change and culture, attracting qualified employees, training and developing staff, motivating retention, and aligning staffing with strategic goals.

Explore how human resource management drives organizational change and culture through recruitment, training, and performance appraisals while navigating legal standards and ethical considerations.

Explore how managers use influence and communication to motivate employees, differentiate management from leadership, adapt styles, and mobilize resources to keep tasks on track until completion.

Explore motivation, leadership, and groups and teams by examining content and process theories, including Maslow's needs, IRG theory, acquired needs, expectancy and equity theories, and Theory X and Theory Y.

Explore fundamentals of influencing communication and leadership in business administration, including barriers, emotional intelligence, and leadership approaches from trait to transformational and servant leadership.