PRINCIPLES OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT

Bachelors Degree in Business Administration

MNG 131

Breyer State University
Instructor: David M. Kolenich Ph.D, MBA, BBA, BS.

SYLLABUS

COURSE OVERVIEW: Welcome to Principles of Business Management, a Bachelor Level course in the curriculum for the Degree, Bachelor of Business Administration. I am pleased to instruct you in this course, which will be a foundational course for the remainder of your studies in the bachelor program.

This is an exciting course, a course that explores the vast boundaries of various management techniques in dealing with employees. It is well known that when managers fail to communicate properly with employees, the company soon fails. This is what the course concentrates on: the process of not trying to master people, or manipulate them, or ignore them, but to retrain managers in the art of working with its staff and not against it. To be sure, this is a paradigm change in thinking.

This course is also structured to present concepts of 13 errors that managers fail to perform from a modern-day perspective. It takes us to a fresh starting place in understanding the principles and theories of handling personnel, from accepting personal accountability to setting standards of performance to training personnel and, finally, to condoning incompetence.

I know you will enjoy this course. Please learn as much as you can as you progress through it, as it does lay down a solid foundation for the rest of the curriculum. It is my pleasure to have you in the course.

TIME FRAME: This is a five-semester hour course. This course is allotted ten weeks of time. You must complete all of the requirements for the course successfully by the end of the ten-week period. The first day of week one will begin the day that you register for the course, or the day which you notify me that your textbook has arrived and you are ready to begin your studies. Please be cognizant of the time frame. It is rare that extensions of time are permitted, unless you have good justification. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be awarded five-semester hours of credit.

TEXTBOOKS: There are two (2) required textbooks for this course.

Book 1: Management Basics. By John & Shirley Payne. Holbrook, Massachusetts; Adams Media Corporation Publishing: 1998 ISBN 1580-62023X

Book 2: 13 Fatal Errors Managers Make and How You Can Avoid Them. By W. Steven Brown-President of The Fortune Group. A Berkley Book published by The Berkley Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.: ISBN # 0425096440.

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EXAMINATIONS: There are two examinations for this course, a mid-term exam and a final exam. The mid-term exam covers the material in the book, "Management Basics by John & Shirley Payne." The final exam covers the materials in the book, "13 Fatal Errors Managers Make and How You Can Avoid Them by W. Steven Brown."

The mid-term examination must be taken by the end of the fifth week in the course.
The final examination must be taken by the end of the tenth week in the course.

Both exams are programmed and are located in the classroom for this course. The examinations are "open book" objective type. You will have one (1) day to complete your exam, once you access it from the classroom. To access the exams, you must send me an email and request to have access to the exam. Upon registration, you will receive my email address. I will then program your access in. You will receive an email back from me telling you that you are now authorized to go ahead and to access your exam. To access, you will come into the classroom, click on testing, and click on the exam you are taking. You will need your User ID and PASS WORD to access the exam. The exam will appear on your screen. Once you access the exam, you have twenty-four hours to submit your answers. The program provides me the exact date and time that you accessed the exam. The program also notifies me of the exact date and time that you submitted your answers. Thus, the program is timing you. When you are ready, go back into the classroom and click in your responses and then click submit. Shortly, you will receive the exam in your email box with your computed score. You will also know what questions, if any, that you missed, and what the correct answer is. I also receive a copy of your exam and your score.

GRADING: The grading scale for this course is as follows:

90-100%    = A
80-89%      = B
70-79%      = C
Below 70% = Fail

COMMUNICATION: You are encouraged to communicate with me. I am available as a teacher, coach, and mentor to assist you in meeting your goals for this course. Primarily, communication is through email. However, I am also available for conversation by telephone if you would like. Our classroom for this course has a "chat" room. I am also very willing to meet with you one-on-one in the chat room at your request. From time to time, depending on how many students are enrolled in this course at a particular time, we will have some scheduled group chats. You will receive more detailed information at the time such chat sessions are scheduled. Please keep my email address handy so that you can contact me whenever necessary. If at any time during this course you change your email address, please be sure to notify me right away.

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS: There are no written assignments for this course. There is a considerable amount of reading involved in this course, and I would prefer you spend your time with the books learning the material.

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR: I, David M. Kolenich, Ph.D, MBA, BBA, BS., currently teach undergraduate and graduate courses at Breyer State University. I hold a Doctorate degree in Business Management, a Masters in Business Administration, a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, and a Bachelor of Food Service Management. I have owned and operated my own restaurant, managed various other large volume restaurants and hotels, managed businesses related to the steel industry, bought and sold real-estate, and have been an officer in various labor relation committees for eight years. I have been an active handball player for over twenty years, winning many state and local tournaments. In 1987, I won the United States Handball Association's National "C" Crown. I am also an avid Table Tennis player, again, winning many tournaments. I am the author of two books, one in finance and one in fiction. Both are currently under review in New York.

I am Administrative Assistant to the President of Breyer State University, and the Dean of Faculty.

COURSE OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

1). Understand the breath and scope of human resource management.
2). Evaluate level of ability of management skills and improvement needed in areas of concern.
3). Learn methods on prioritizing results needed and achieving them.
4). Understand techniques on making time more productive.
5). Understand modes on decision making.
6). Understand methods of making effective decisions.
7). Understand the skills needed to communicate and persuade effectively.
8). Learn effective proposal presentations.
9). Understand modes of personnel development.
10). Understand how to delegate efficiently.
11). Acquire the expertise of profit maximization.
12). Understand the art of condoning incompetence.
13). Learn how to set standards.
14). Understand how to never forget the importance of profits.

ASSIGNMENTS: For specific assignments, please click on the link "Assignments."

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