INSTRUCTOR:	CHARLES WM. MOHUNDRO, J.D., Ph.D.
OFFICE:	ACADEMIC 213N
E-MAIL:	charles.mohundro@tamut.edu
OFFICE HOURS	POSTED ON INSTRUCTOR'S HOME PAGE
WEB HOURS	POSTED ON INSTRUCTOR'S HOME PAGE
TELEPHONE:	903-223-3019
COURSE TIMES:	Class Orientation via web audio  All meetings will be via the web.  However, one or more hour exams may be scheduled in the Testing Center at TAMUT or in a testing center at an approved testing site.
COURSE NUMBER:	MGT 395
CATALOG DESCRIPTION:	A study of management principles that apply to all types of business organizations with the special emphasis on planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
PREREQUISITES:	None Specified
TEXTBOOK:	Fundamental of Management:  Essential Concepts and Applications, 5th ed., Robbins and Decenzo, Prentice Hall 2005.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the following subjects:

• The historical roots of contemporary management practices and the evolution of management thinking.
• The management environment.
• The functions of management including planning, organizing, leading, and controlling.
• Foundations of planning
• Foundations of decision making.
• Basic organization designs.
• Staffing and human resource management.
• Managing change, stress, and innovation
• Foundations of individual and group behavior.
• Understanding work teams.
• Motivating and rewarding employees.
• Leadership and trust.
• Communication and interpersonal skills.
• Foundations of control.
• Operations management.

TYPE OF INSTRUCTION

Management 395 will be taught as a Web course.  Web-based technologies including PowerPoint, exercises, case studies, video case studies and e-mail are employed in course instruction.  It is essential that the student review all available materials located in the text, on WebCT and e-mail. The course is partially self-paced in that you may complete a specific week's assignment anytime during that week's time frame. Students must have and maintain a current e-mail address.  Failure to maintain a current e-mail address may result in being dropped from the class.

E-MAIL REQUIREMENTS

All students must have an e-mail address.  Should you not furnish the instructor with a home or office e-mail address your university e-mail address (first four letters of your last name and last four digits of your social security number) will be used .  Home or office e-mail addresses must be furnished to the instructor in an e-mail in the following prescribed form: subject line of e-mail must use the course prefix and number, i.e. Mgt395  and the first line of the body of the e-mail must contain you name (last name first) and your e-mail address in this prescribed format: "Mohundro, Charles" <charles.mohundro@tamut.edu>.  You must use quotation marks and the greater-than and less-than signs as indicated.  Also include both your home and office telephone numbers, including area code, on the line below your name with non local calls indicated with a (ld) after the number. 

Students are required to follow file naming and e-mail subject line protocols which are set forth in "Portfolio Instructions" on the web and Submission Format Requirements below.  Failure to do so will result in the non acceptance of require work.

You must be identifiable from e-mail address.  Your address does not have to contain your complete name, however a reasonable person (your instructor) must be able to determine who sent the e-mail after looking at the class roster. Foxylady@xxx.com, PGISGIRL@XXX.COM,  TISDFLASH@xxx.com or brokendownpickup@xxx.com will not work.  Your address should, no must, be professional in this course.  You can adjust the address that you now use, assuming that it does not contain you name in some fashion, by placing "your name" between quotation marks immediately before you address and your e-mail address proper between the less than and greater than signs (< >).  The use of quotation marks around your name is usually optional.  Example: "Charles Mohundro" <charles.mohundro@tamut.edu>.  On my e-mail program I can change my address by looking under "Tools" and "Options".  Your e-mail will likely be different.  You can probably find directions for your particular e-mail program by looking under its "Help" function.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Internet browsers are necessary to access the course material on WebCT online.  Internet Explorer (IE) version 5.0 or higher (with the exception of IE 5.5 with Service Pack SP installed and version 6.0) is supported.   Web pages are designed to be viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer.  Results with other browsers are unpredictable and may cause formatting difficulties and result in pages being difficult or impossible to read.   Internet Explorer is a free download.  All required submissions must be in Microsoft Word format.

Access to course materials is through "Web for Students" from the TAMU-T homepage and WebCT. You may find it helpful to tune your browser by selecting "Check Browser" at the top right hand corner of the "My WebCT Page" as you first enter WebCT. You may find that ad/pop-up blocker programs on your computer must be disabled for all of the screens in WebCT to work properly.

Audio files are in the MP3 streaming format and are designed for Microsoft Windows Media Player.   One should not attempt to save the audio file but to open the file from its current location when directed by Media Player so that streaming will work properly.  Windows Player should be set to "View" the control screen in "compact" format to listen to and properly view any related material.

EVALUATION AND GRADE DETERMINATION

Grades are based on the quality of the following:
 
  

Chapter quizzes1 *	160 points
Hour Exams (100 points each)	400 points
Student Home Page	20
Total Course Points	580 points

 

Points Earned

COURSE ETHICS

You are expected to do your own work in this course and not to give or receive any unauthorized aid or assistance.  No aid, human or otherwise, is permitted in taking the online chapter quizzes and in the preparation of any research assignment. (This includes data collection, organization and the writing of the paper. You may however receive editing assistance on the paper should you desire.  Remember that editing is not the writing of the paper. Papers written by someone other that you and/or internet copies are expressly prohibited).  TAMU-T utilizes the services of TURNINIT.COM to assist in the prevention of plagiarism. You should review the definition of plagiarism found at http://www.turnitin.com/research_site/e_what_is_plagiarism.html and be sure that your work in no way runs afoul of University rules relating to academic dishonesty and plagiarism (please refer to the University official catalog and sections dealing with academic dishonesty and the student code of conduct therein). 

Copies of previous semester case analyses or case analyses found on the web, should any exist, are expressly prohibited and to use them will place you in violation of course ethics.  You may be requested to submit the following signed pledge on any assignment "I have neither given nor received any unauthorized aid on this assignment or any assignment in this course".  A failure to submit the sign pledge, if requested, or other course ethics violation will result in zero for that particular assignment, at a minimum,  and may result in being dropped from the course.  Nothing in this course ethics statement should prevent students from studying together or discussing any assignment in the normal and accepted academic manner. The intention is that each student will do his/her own work and will not use any analyses, should any exist, in making their analysis (team or individual).

READING QUIZ DEADLINES

Quizzes must be taken over the web during prescribed times.  Any failure to take a quiz during its prescribed time period will result in a zero for that particular quiz.  No make up quizzes will be given.  Be sure that you read the quiz deadlines correctly.  Usually the ending date for a quiz is stated "To January 10, 2003, 00:00".  This means that you can take the quiz until that time--which means that you take the quiz anytime until midnight January 9 .  YOU CANNOT TAKE THE QUIZ ANYTIME ON JANUARY 10.  

SUBMISSION FORMAT REQUIREMENTS

All required submissions must be in the format indicated in the instructions.  Each shall be in an individual Word document file and attached to a transmittal e-mail (only one attachment per transmittal).  The transmittal e-mail must contain a specified subject line.  The attachment file must be named in a specified manner as well.  The subject line and the attachment file must be identical (except for the file extension).  Please see the "Information Page" in the course material for submission instructions.  I receive some 4,000 e-mails in a particular semester and the rigid submission requirements are necessary so that I can give you an automated acknowledgement of submission receipt and find your submissions for grading purposes.  A failure to submit in the require manner will result in a letter grade reduction for the submission if am able to find it or a zero in the event that I am not able to locate it.

ASSIGNMENTS

Please refer to the "Schedule Page" in the course materials for assignments and due dates and to the "Quizzes Page" for date requirements for chapter quizzes.

Student Home Pages

Students will create a home page within WebCT containing, at a minimum, their photograph (approximately 2x3 inches), their areas of special interest, and contact information.  The page may contain other appropriate data as well.  Should the student already have a home page elsewhere that contains the above minimum data, and no inappropriate data, a simple link in the Web CT student home page to that page will be sufficient.

COMPUTER COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

Students are expected to have computer skills and/or be able to perform the computer related tasks as indicated below.  In the event that you do not possess these skills it is highly recommended that you take MIS301- Microcomputer Applications in Business.

Microsoft Word:

• Keyboard efficiently.

• Copy, cut and paste material within a document and from one document to another.

• Save files under a designated name

• Set proper page margins

• Insert page breaks, bookmarks, and pictures.

• Create hyperlinks within a document and to Internet sites.

• Use heading styles and frames to create a linked table of contents

• Use bookmarks and hyperlinks to create a linked table of contents.

• Properly document formatting using fonts, paragraph format, bullets and numbering.

• Create and use appropriate tables when necessary.

• Use spell check and thesaurus.

E-mail:  Send and receive e-mail with file attachments.

Internet:

• Access the Internet.

• Use Microsoft Internet Explorer browser.

• Download and install software from the Internet.

• At least minimum ability to navigate the Internet.

Windows operating system:  

• Use general operations effectively including Windows Explorer and/or My Computer 

• Effectively manage files on drives (copy, move, delete, create folders), and control of desktop environment

Microsoft Excel:

• Use basic tools such as copying, pasting, cut, edit, print, page setup, and format appropriately.

• Create/use database functions, queries, and conditional formatting

• Import text files

• Enter data

• Import and export data

• Create/use formulas including relative addressing

• Organize data

• Sort data

• Generate charts

PowerPoint: Although students will not be required to prepare PowerPoint Presentations in this class, business students should be able to, or become familiar with, the preparation of PowerPoint Presentations for future courses and career enhancement. 

WebCT:  students should be able to navigate content modules, discussion, homepage, and presentations.  Please refer to Student Resources and the Student Guide to WebCT at http://www.tamut.edu/webcourses/index.php?pageid=37.

for initial WebCT instructions.