Management

The solid background enables students to complete the specialization requirements in one of their areas of interest during the third and fourth year of the BBA program. The program is further supported by electives chosen from a selection of different courses, to broaden students’ knowledge and enhance their specialized skills.In the first two years of the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree program, students follow a prescribed sequence of courses. This sequence focuses on GUCR and supporting business requirements, providing students with a broad-based and well-rounded knowledge through acquiring communication skills, problem-solving and IT skills, as well as an understanding of general business concepts.

In order to graduate, the student must complete the program successfully with a GPA of 2.25 or above, and must earn a total of 129 credit hours. Students with a BBA in Management should be able to:

• Achieve organizational goals by utilizing human resources, material resources, and financial resources of the organization in the most efficient and effective manner possible.
• Use their knowledge and skills in handling tasks and responsibilities faced by managers, including but not limited to delegating, communicating, team-building, decision-making, and problem-solving.
• Perform managerial functions such as strategic planning, organizing, coordinating, leading, and motivating others to meet organizational goals.
• Understand the complexities of domestic as well as international environments and to develop strategies to remain competitive in terms of cost and quality and to maintain high levels of productivity.
• Guide organizations to meet challenges of today’s world and adapt to change.

BMNG 301 Human Resources Management

The main purpose of this course is to give future human resources managers an understanding of the variety and the importance of human resource management functions in today’s business environment, and how it is changing in response to the recent trends in the work place. It illustrates how all managers can use HR concepts and techniques in their organizations.

BMNG 303 Advanced Organizational Behavior

The course focuses on organizational effectiveness in UAE and the development of a continuous improvement model. Evaluate roles of culture, power, politics and interpersonal conflict in UAE organizations, leadership behavior and current trends in motivation.

BMNG 311 Management of Service Organizations

The main purpose of this course is to focus on decision making in UAE service organizations such as health care, hotel care, hotel, banking and finance, transportation, leisure and government. Both conceptual and application of management techniques to problems peculiar to service organizations in UAE are covered.

BMNG 406 Small Business Management

The purpose of this course is to examine small business management, managing the transition from small business entrepreneur to manager; growth of the small business and preparing a business plan for growth.

BMNG 416 Emerging Issues in Management

The course deals with the exploration of emerging issues such as problems facing management in multicultural and international environments in UAE. The delivery is in the format of a seminar with each student participating in a debate related to a specific issue.

BMNG 423 Leadership Development

This course covers the different theories and styles of leadership and their effectiveness and ineffectiveness in UAE context. Different motivation theories will be studied as to how they relate to effective or ineffective leadership practices. The different types of power and the power centers in UAE organizations will be studied along with the restraints and the limits power.

BMNG 424 Change Management

This course covers management of change and change management theories and practices. Topics include: sources of change, resistance to change, coping with change, leading organizational change, models of organizational change, creation and change of organizational cultures with specific reference to UAE.

BMNG 445 Total Quality Management and Continuous Improvement

The course focuses on quality and continuous improvement encompassing the entire organization from supplier to customer and how organizations achieve it. The coverage includes approaches to quality management, systems and procedures for planning, control and continuous improvement of quality, barriers to implementation of TQM, quality audit and benchmarking.