BADM 360 – D30–Human ResourceManagement – 3 Credit Hours
Summer2010Online via the Desire2Learn (D2L) Course Management System

Instructor: Dr. Jack Walters

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Required Texts:

  • Management, 10th Edition – Stephen P. Robbins & Mary Coulter, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009.

ISBN: 978-0-13-209071-1

Course Description

Catalog

This course is a study of management, including the planning, directing, controlling, and coordinating of activities involved in operating a business enterprise (no prerequisites listed -- Source: DSU 2007-2008 Undergraduate Catalog).

Instructor’s Statement

Almost all business and not-for-profit activity is carried out by people working in organizations. Effective managerial functioning in today’s workplace requires a basic understanding of how to think and decide; how to communicate; how to manage oneself, others, and organizations; how to initiate and adapt to change; and how to act responsibly toward one’s coworkers, organization, and the external world as a whole. The objective of this course is to survey fundamental facts and concepts related to these activities.

Instructional Methods:

This course will be delivered primarily by video lectures, textbook readings, and assigned exercises.

Course Goals:

Reference to College of Business and Information Systems (BIS) Mission:

This course supports the BIS goals of improving logical thinking and building basic knowledge about business operation.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Students who complete this course will:

  • describe basic facts about business structures and processes.
  • explain what organizations are, why they exist, and how they function.
  • relate social responsibility/ethics concepts to organizational activity.
  • define decision-making techniques and processes.
  • explain constraints on decision-making processes in organizations.
  • demonstrate the ability to think logically.

Policies

Participation

This course contains a large amount of material about a wide array of topics. Therefore, frequent viewing of online content and staying current with assigned readings is critical to student success. Video lectures will contain material that is not included in the textbook, and vice versa.

Computer Access and Usage:

  • All students must maintain D2L access and check the course web site frequently. All email, handouts, lectures, notices, and grades will be posted on D2L.Access to D2L will be needed to submit answersto questions assigned from the textbook.
  • Because of the extensive use of video, all students must maintain access to a computer with a high speed internet connection.
  • Regarding exams, it is the student’s responsibility to ensure that a computer capable of accessing D2L is operational at the appointed proctor’s location.
  • To use MP3 and iPod recordings of lectures, students must possess and operate software that allows downloading and transfer of files to an appropriate player.

Academic Honesty:

  • Any act of academic dishonesty will result in a zero on the assignment and referral to the DSU Academic Integrity Board.
  • In this course, academic dishonesty regarding exams is defined as:
  • Communicating with anyone other than your proctor.
  • Using any type of materials, devices, or software other than that required for test/quiz administration.
  • Copying answers from another student’s paper or computer.
  • Taking an online exam while not in the presence of a properly appointed proctor.
  • Sending information to, or receiving information from, any person or entity during or related to an online exam.
  • Regarding written assignments, academic dishonesty is defined as:
  • Using another person’s work and representing it as your own.

PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS ARE SUBJECT

TO REVIEW BY A PLAGIARISM CHECKING SYSTEM

  • These policies are in compliance with Dakota State University’s academic integrity policy, which can be found at:

Intellectual Property:

Course materials cannot be sold to or otherwise shared with anyone.

Accommodations In Accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

If there is any student in this course who, due to a disability, has need for non-standard note-taking, test taking, technology, orother accommodations, please contact Dakota State University's ADA coordinator, Keith Bundy, by email , as soon as possible. Accommodations cannot be given until they have been applied for and the need confirmed. Further information, along with the form to request accommodations, can be found at

Appropriate Conduct

  • Disruption of an academic process is an act or words of a student in a teaching environment which, in the reasonable estimation of a faculty member (a) constitutes disrespectful or abusive disruptions, or (b) presents danger to the health, safety, or well-being of the faculty member or students.
  • The first disruption will result in sanctions ranging from a warning to ejection from the course and zeroes on all remaining assignments (e.g., tests, written assignments).
  • A second disruption will result in ejection from the course and a zero on all remaining assignments.

Freedom in Learning:

  • Students are responsible for learning the content of any course of study in which they are enrolled.
  • Under Board of Regents and University policy, student academic performance shall be evaluated solely on an academic basis and students should be free to take reasoned exception to the data or views offered in any course of study.
  • Dakota State University allows students to appeal the decisions of faculty, administrative, and staff members and the decisions of institutional committees. Students who believe that an academic evaluation is unrelated to academic standards but is related instead to judgment of their non-academic conduct should contact the dean of the college which offers the course to initiate a review (see DSU Policy 03-30-00 for additional information on the academic appeal process).

Evaluation Procedures

Exams

  • There will be four exams, covering material presented in the text, lectures, recordings, and other assignments. Each exam will consist of 50 multiple choice and/or true-false questions and have a 2-hour time limit. Exams are closed-book, meaning that they are taken without use of books, notes, other materials, or devices. All programs on the student’s computer other than D2L must be closed during the exam. Cellular telephones may not be used for any purpose during an exam.
  • All exams will be administered via D2L, meaning that the testing location must provide:
  • a computer with access to the internet

or

  • internet access for the student’s computer.

Passwords that allow access to exams will be provided to the proctor by Dr. Walters and revealed to the student when the exam is accessed via D2L in the presence of the proctor.

Textbook Questions

  • Two sets of questions will be distributed to class members.
  • There will be five questions in each set.
  • Each set of questions will be completed within one week of being assigned.
  • Completeness and clarity of answers will be used to grade each question’s answer as Good, Satisfactory, or Unsatisfactory. Good gets full credit. Satisfactory gets half credit. Unsatisfactory gets no credit.

(see next page for grades and schedule information)

Grades (colors for each graded item are used in the schedule below)

  • Each exam counts for 20% of the course grade.
  • Each set of textbook questionscounts for 10% of the course grade.
  • Grade ranges: 90 to 100 = A; 80 to 89 = B; 70 to 79 = C; 60 to 69 = D; Below 60 = F

Course Schedule:

Dates /

Topic

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Activities/Assignments

5/17 –
5/26 /
  • Ch 1 – Intro/Overview
  • Ch 2 – History of Management
  • Ch 3 – Organization Culture
  • Ch 4 – Global Issues
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  • Read Management by Robbins and Coulter (hereafter abbreviated as RC) Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4
  • Review PowerPoints for Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4
  • View/listen to recordings for Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4

5/27 –
6/2 /
  • Exam 1 is open
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  • This exam covers Chapters 1 through 4 of the textbook and all related materials
  • All exams open at 12:01 AM on the start date and close at 11:59 PM on the end date.

5/27 –
6/2 /
  • Ch 5– Ethics & Social Responsibility
  • Ch 6– Decision Making
  • Ch 7– Planning
  • Ch 8– Strategy
  • Ch 9– Organizational Structure
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  • Read R&C Chapters5, 6, 7, 8 9
  • Review PowerPoints for Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9
  • View/listen to recordings for Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9

6/3 –
6/9 /
  • Exam 2 is open
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  • This exam will cover Chapters 5 through 9 of the textbook and all related materials

6/3 –
6/9 /
  • Dropbox is open for Textbook Questions I
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  • Instructions for completing and submitting this assignment will be posted on D2L.

6/3 –
6/9 /
  • Ch 10– Human Resources
  • Ch 11– Teams
Ch 12– Change and Innovation
Ch 13– Organizational Behavior
  • Ch 14– Communication
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Read R&C Chapters10, 11, 12, 13 14
  • Review PowerPoints for Chapters 10, 11, 12, 13 14
  • View/listen to recordings for Chapters 10, 11, 12, 13 14

6/10 –
6/16 /
  • Exam 3 is open
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  • This exam will cover Chapters 10 through 14 of the textbook and all related materials

6/10 –
6/16 /
  • Dropbox is open for Textbook Questions II
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  • Instructions for completing and submitting this assignment will be posted on D2L.

6/10 –
6/16 /
  • Ch 15– Motivation
Ch 16– Leadership
Ch 17– Control
  • Ch 18–Operations
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  • Read R&C Chapters15, 16, 17 18
  • Review PowerPoints for Chapters 15, 16, 17 18
  • View/listen to recordings for Chapters 15, 16, 17 18

6/17 –
6/25 /
  • Exam 4 is open
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  • This exam will cover Chapters 15 through 18 of the textbook and all related materials