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Dr. Patricia Lanier is helping 杏吧专区 students avoid such comparisons through her principles of management course.
The course is required for business majors, as well as several other disciplines, and is offered online as well as on-campus.
杏吧专区淚t杏吧专区檚 all about learning the basics of being a manager,杏吧专区 the professor explains. 杏吧专区淩egardless of what your chosen profession is going to be, whether it杏吧专区檚 communications or dietetics or even engineering, we hope that at some point in time all our students will eventually make it into a leadership position, either as a supervisor or manager.杏吧专区
Management of Behavior and Organizations (MGMT 320) prepares students in the BSBA in Management online degree program with the core skills to lead and manage by presenting fundamentals of hiring, pay, recruitment, and more.
Dr. Lanier began teaching online in 2001. Since then she杏吧专区檚 developed a number of methods to connect with students from afar.
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杏吧专区淲hat I杏吧专区檝e had to do over time is adapt and come up with creative ways that I can still have that interaction, and students can interact with each other so the experience is not significantly different from students in the classroom.杏吧专区
A key component of creating that experience is to bring students out of the textbook.
Dr. Lanier says she杏吧专区檒l ask students to analyze current events or even movies or television shows like 杏吧专区淭he Office,杏吧专区 杏吧专区淜itchen Nightmares,杏吧专区 or old episodes of 杏吧专区淪tar Trek杏吧专区 to identify management principles and leadership styles.
杏吧专区淭extbook material is presented in a very sanitized way,杏吧专区 she says. 杏吧专区淪o it杏吧专区檚 usually pretty easy for a student to do an assignment straight out of a textbook.
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Students have to not only describe a leadership style exhibited by a certain character, for instance, but also defend their assessment. Online, this is done through forum posts where students publish and discuss their observations with other students.
Becoming versed in professional collaboration through technology further prepares students to enter the workforce, Dr. Lanier says.
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