Bachelor of Business Administration – Business Management and Entrepreneurship

Students learn managerial accounting tools to help make decisions in a business environment. Students review and analyze managerial accounting practices of different industries. Students study topics that include relevant costs and revenues, budget development and analysis, capital budgeting, and performance measurement tools. Students apply concepts learned by using cases and applied exercises.

Prerequisites: (ACC2222 or ACC2202), GEEC 3150, BUEN 3100, and BUMT 3030.

Students will be introduced to management information systems and the importance of systems in achieving organizational goals. Topics include how to develop and maintain information systems to gain a competitive advantage, solve business problems, and to improve decision-making. The role of information systems and systems development in business operations is also discussed. This course is designed to support the College of Business curriculum and satisfies the general degree requirement for computer literacy for business majors.

Students will be absorbing the topics of the curriculum in business information technology in a way that provides them with expertise in the quantitative and technological aspects of management, specifically including the extensive use of computers for solving business problems and making managerial decisions.

Students apply previously learned analytical tools to address a wide range of organizational issues. They develop and assess options based on sound strategic analysis and research. Students recommend solutions supported by quantitative and qualitative rationale. They develop their problem-solving, judgment, analysis, evaluation, and decision-making skills through case analyses and applied exercises. Students are required to undertake both individual and group work, drawing from the full range of business courses completed thus far.

Prerequisites: QUA2210, BUMT 3030, GEEC 3150, (BUMK 3099 or MGT2205 or
MKT2201), ENL1823, BUMG 3105, and (ACC2222 or ACC2202)

Students learn how to design, manage and assess end-to-end supply chains and logistics in manufacturing as well as in service industries. They study the latest concepts and formal tools for planning and auditing supply chains and logistics. Included in this study are the choices of the most appropriate locations, transportation systems, and facilities. Students practice creating value-adding systems, eliminating waste, and developing sustainable supply chains and logistics networks in order to generate a significant positive impact on the organization's triple bottom line. They apply their knowledge and skills in exercises and projects involving real-world or simulated organizations.

Prerequisites: BUMG 3105 and BUAC 3120

Students learn how to manage innovation using formal processes, frameworks and tools. They study the latest innovation management approaches in the areas of design of innovation strategies. Students study the stimulation of creativity and harnessing of technologies, development of goods, serv,ices and processes, business model innovation, and measurement of innovation performance. They are given the opportunity to examine successful innovation management practices in organizations of all types and sizes. Students apply their knowledge and skills in exercises and projects involving real-world or simulated organizations.

Students focus on the conceptual and practical aspects of strategic decision-making in business. They learn how to formulate strategies, evaluate strategic alternatives using financial and non-financial criteria, implement strategies, and manage strategic change in organizations through a series of case analyses, business exercises, and current examples from the industry.

Prerequisites: (GECM 3000 or MKT2291), BUEN 3100, BUAC 3120, GEEC 3250, and (BUAC 3380 or FIN2221)

Over the course of 2 semesters, students manage, design, prepare, and present a comprehensive project that will meet the requirements of a client organization. They develop and complete a significant project in partnership with businesses or as part of developing an entrepreneurial endeavor. Students gain the opportunity to practice the integration of business skills and concepts.

Prerequisites: Completion of 3 BUEN courses at the 3000 level or higher; Co-requisite: BUEN 4200

Over the course of 2 semesters, students manage, design, prepare, and present a comprehensive project that will meet the requirements of a client organization. They develop and complete a significant project in partnership with businesses or as part of developing an entrepreneurial endeavor. Students gain the opportunity to practice the integration of business skills and concepts.

Prerequisites: Completion of 3 BUEN courses at the 3000 level or higher; Co-requisite: BUEN 4200

Students acquire an in-depth understanding of the human resource (HR) management needed to enable an organization to face changes and challenges. Students engage in research, present key findings and engage in best practice dialogues around a variety of key human resource management concepts, including legal and diversity issues, employee acquisition and deployment, performance management, career development, employee compensation and rewards, employee communications and discipline, union-management relations, occupational health and safety, and international human resource management.

Prerequisite: BUMG 3110

Students are prepared for a business environment increasingly affected by laws. They learn how laws must be understood and applied by management in the conduct of business. They also learn how to analyze a business situation from a general legal perspective. Emphasis is placed on methods of dispute resolution, contracts, agency, torts, employment law, methods of carrying on business, creditors' rights, sale of goods, and marketing law.

Students learn the principles of management through an in-depth examination of the universal functions of management: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. They explore the role of managers as decision-makers responsible for achieving the strategic goals and objectives of organizations. Students study contemporary management practices, concepts, and issues including key contingency models, strategic analysis tools, quality control techniques, and perspectives on managerial ethics.

Students learn and practice the fundamental design and implementation tools and techniques used in Operations Management (OM). They are exposed to leading practices employed by entrepreneurs and managers in organizations of all sizes, both in manufacturing and service industries, particularly in small and medium-sized enterprises. Students apply the theoretical qualitative and quantitative approaches to solve practical problems through exercises, case analyses, and a group term project involving work with real-world or simulated organizations.

Prerequisites: (BUMG 3010 or BUMG 3015 or MKT2283), (BUMK 3099 or MGT2205 or MKT2201), GEEC 3150, (ACC2222 or ACC2202) and BUMT 3030

Students complete a diagnosis of an organizational setting for the purposes of:
managing change, improving performance and increasing organizational effectiveness. Students use their diagnosis to develop a portfolio that includes: activity management, personal management, conflict and stress management, values, attitudes, group dynamics, leadership and team development, corporate politics and business negotiations.

Prerequisites: BUMG 3015 or BUMG 3010 or MKT2283. Co-requisite: GECM 3000

Students learn statistical concepts, methods, and procedures used in business, including descriptive statistics--graphics and numerical presentations, probability theory, sampling, estimation, hypothesis testing, and linear regression. The use of statistical software applications forms part of the course. Students are expected to know or acquire their own, basic Excel skills.

Students examine the inter-relationships among our technologies, cultures, and societies. In this course, students examine how technologies have historically changed our cultural norms and societies and how they are increasingly and more rapidly doing so today. Students explore how technologies affect where we live and do business, how we live and do business, and how well and long we live and do business, and what this means for them as businesspeople and members of society.

Students learn how economists view the choices of households and firms. Topics covered include the nature and method of economics, scarcity, specialization and exchange, supply and demand analysis, elasticity, consumer behavior, the economics of the firm, perfect competition, monopoly, and market failure.

Students study macroeconomic theory at an introductory level. Topics treated include macroeconomic performance measures, economic growth, inflation, unemployment, money and banking, interest rates, exchange rates, and government policy in a small, open economy like Kuwait.