Brief Overview of Core Courses:
TCOM200 Telecom Technologies – The Emerging Picturex
With telecom technologies changing rapidly, there is a need to thoroughly understand the capabilities, limitations, and implications as each new system is adopted. This module sets out the emerging picture logically – tackling the building blocks first, before looking at the different access and core network systems in more detail.
The picture is built up from the basics to include the way in which the different technologies and elements interact to provide the overall user experience. For the mobile technologies, we concentrate on the 3GPP family, and the evolutionary path through GSM, GPRS, EDGE, 3G W-CDMA and HSxPA, and onto LTE and also including WiMAX. Interoperability, compatibility, and roaming scenarios are all illustrated.
• Network Building Blocks • Mobile • Fixed • Convergence • WiMAX.
MGT442 Strategic Management x
The Strategic Management Area allows students to acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for a managerial approach to running a business in today's competitive environment. This course focuses on some of the important current issues in strategic management. It will concentrate on modern analytical approaches and on enduring successful strategic practices. It is consciously designed with a technological and global outlook since this orientation in many ways highlights the significant emerging trends in strategic management. The course is intended to provide the students with a pragmatic approach that will guide the formulation and implementation of corporate, business, and functional strategies. This course focuses on some of the important current issues in strategic management.
EMB689 Leadership and Negotiationx
This course examines the nature and process of leadership and developing negotiation strategies in executive environments. It surveys theories of leadership, negotiations, bargaining and conflict resolution. The course emphasizes case studies and problem solving employing ethical business models.
MKT602 Marketing Managementx
Provides a structured approach to marketing management, guiding the student through market analysis, customer segmentation, product development, service development and marketing implementation. The objective of the course is to give the students an understanding of marketing as an inherent area of their responsibility. They will be exposed to core concepts of marketing that will be found useful in understanding markets, trends, customers, competition and other areas when working in any organization.
BUC400 Business Communicationx
Writing and speaking skills necessary for a career in management. Students polish communication strategies and methods through discussion of principles, examples, and cases. Several written and oral assignments, most based on material from other subjects and from career development activities. Corporate Communication is intended to help you think strategically about communication and to aid you in improving your writing, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills within a managerial setting. We will look at a range of successful practices and guidelines that have been derived from both research and experience, give you the opportunity to practice your skills, and provide you with feedback to help you strengthen them. Typically, we will use a workshop format that relies heavily on discussion and in-class exercises.
TCOMB 103 The competitive advantage - Telecom Regulatory Issuesx
As in many other industries, regulators of the telecommunications industry have aimed to bring affordable products and services to the general public, while at the same time allowing participating companies to make adequate profits. All levels of government regulate telecommunications, from the city that controls the Placement of telephone wires up to the nation state which issues licenses to broadcast. Because of the nature of telecommunications and the importance of the information it carries, national and international politics are also heavily involved. The purpose of this course is to investigate the institutions that affect the use of telecommunications. Some time will be devoted to the various parts of the government that are involved in this endeavor, such as the Department of Telecommunication, TRAI and TDSAT. The major thrust of the course will be toward the role of international institutions, including the ITU, UNESCO, and the various satellite organizations such as INTELSAT.
This course also includes Tariffs, Billings, Arbitration, cost/ benefit analysis, regulation, policy, Quality of Service performance of Basic and Cellular Mobile Telephone service, TRAI act, Interconnect Agreement, Universal service obligation
ACC201 Financial Accountingx
The goal of Fundamental Financial Accounting Concepts is to enable students to understand how any given business event affects the financial statements. To that end, Edmonds' uses a horizontal financial statements model that allows students to see the simultaneous impact of a single business event on all of the key financial statements (the income statement, the balance sheet, and the statement of cash flows). This model also provides an effective means for comparing the effects of one transaction with the effects of another transaction. These are the big picture relationships that both accounting majors and general business students need to understand to function effectively in the business world.
MNS683 Decision and Risk Analysis x
Decision and Risk Analysis for management as a focus on the application of mathematical models in decision making. All the techniques on basic mathematics, operations research and statistics are introduced to enable individuals to pick up the right one for particular problem at hand ranging from optimization technique, decision under uncertainty to tackling problems common to research situation.
HRM680 Organizational Behavior and Human Recourse Managementx
The recent economic development has benefited the business units in terms of technology and availability of finance. However, in such situation deep understanding management and human resources have become the decisive factor in survival and growth of businesses. The organizational behaviour course helps individual in understanding himself as well as others. Successful execution of managerial job requires effective handling of people and the course outline covers study of human behaviour at individual, group and organization level.
This course also explores the central, strategic role that HR plays in making organizations more competitive. It examines personnel management concepts and practices including: recruitment and selection of employees; equal opportunity; training and development; performance appraisals; compensation and benefits; and labor relations. This course has a special focus on the increase of globalization and workforce diversity in the high-performance organization.
MGT604 Project Managementx
The course focuses on project management as a core competency and the application of key project management tools and technologies across business units. In addition to learning this model, participants will gain an overview of project management methodology and their role as either a manager with project management responsibility or as a member of a project team. Key elements of this course include: How to solve complex environmental problems, How to plan projects, to establish realistic timelines, and to obtain commitment from your organization, How to manage project teams to produce real results with team member satisfaction, How to manage multiple projects and
How to use contracts to achieve maximum performance
FIN501Fundamentals of Financex
This course teaches the nature and workings of financial markets and their use by corporations, investors and others. They will acquire some skills in modern valuation techniques, including the pricing of fixed-income securities, equities, foreign exchange and derivatives. They will learn about the principles of finance, including arbitrage, market efficiency, and portfolio theory. In the context of corporate finance, the course will introduce the key principles of selecting real investments, financing them, and managing financial risk. From the point of view of investors, individual as well as institutional, we will consider the principles of portfolio selection and management. Finally, the course will look at how banks and other financial institutions make money by bringing issuers and investors together.
MGT800 Technology Managementx
Introduces the student to best practices in managing a technology business. Elaborates on pertinent theories such as product lifecycle, time to market, concurrent engineering and new product development.
TCOMB 101 Telecom Market Scenariox
Many challenges and opportunities face the ever-changing communications industry over the next few years, and this module provides a comprehensive analysis of the current situation, as well as predicting future trends, growth markets and technologies – and the strategies that are likely to be employed. The aim is to provide a clearer picture of the way ahead – enabling more informed decisions and choices.
ECO608 Macro Economics & Economic Analysis for Business Decisionsx
This course is an amalgamation of macroeconomics and managerial (or applied microeconomics). Macro Economics deals with the principles of economics that involve the measurement of and interrelationships between aggregate economic variables, and policies that help ensuring sound health of economy. In the context of globalisation and greater role being assigned to the private enterprise in the erstwhile regulated economies, it is becoming a real challenge for evolving and fine-tuning macroeconomic policies in line with the rapid changes occurring from time to time both in the national and global economy. The first part of the present course has been designed to help students to familiarise with major macroeconomic variables that determine the macroeconomic state and influence pace of growth of an economy. The course also aims at exposing the management students to influences of such policies on the economic environment in which business organizations need to operate, so that they could make timely and appropriate policy decisions.
Business and economic environment of a country remains dynamic and more so in the present era of globalisation. Latter part of this course is concerned primarily with basic microeconomic principles and concepts, and analyzing of the economic and business environment for arriving at suitable managerial decisions that can be implemented by commercial firms for desired business outcomes.
EMPTM Live consulting projectx
Application is the acid test for management theory. Without the project element, too much EMPTM content would escape unchallenged. The project enables you to combine content, integrate subject areas and most importantly test ideas directly with feedback from the real world.
An EMPTM represents excellent value for your sponsoring organisation. Each assignment relates specifically back to your employer or some other client firm. It is through the 60-80 day project that your sponsor can really enjoy substantial, measurable payback through savings and increases in efficiency.
And you benefit too. The project represents major part of your EMPTM assessment and is the perfect opportunity to integrate the skills and knowledge you have acquired and apply them to a major business challenge that your organisation faces. A successful project can have a major impact on your reputation and even position within your organisation.
Projects cover every possible subject including: internal strategic reviews, new market entry strategies, change management challenges, business diversification, mergers and acquisitions and performance measurement.
Course and faculty details conducted at Oklahoma State University (OSU) :
MGMT 5533 Executive Telecommunications Management ProgramT
Leadership Challenges
Leadership is a dynamic and multi-faceted concept. Much has been written and researched
on this topic and in this course, we will examine some of the current ideas on
organizational leadership. We will examine what it means to be a leader and how it differs
from being a manager. We will explore the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed
to be an effective leader in today’s global environment. The course objective is to help
students learn more about their own leadership beliefs and see how they can hone
their own leadership behaviors.
This course will be very interactive in nature and will afford the students an opportunity
to examine and discuss their own ideas on leadership. We will read several current
books on the topic and compare and contrast their major ideas. Students will also
have opportunities to critique these ideas and examine them in written form.
Faculty:
Dr. Ken Eastman is the Head of the Department of Management and an associate
professor of management in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University.
Prior to becoming department head, he was director of the OSU MBA program.
His research interests are mainly in the areas of leadership, extra-role behaviors, and
organizational politics. He has published articles in such journals as the Academy of
Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Social
Psychology, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Journal of Business
Ethics. He has presented over 200 seminars on topics such as leadership, Good to
Great, performance management, generations at work, and organizational politics
to such organizations as Sonic Corporation, Chesapeake, ConocoPhillips, OG&E,
ONEOK, Lopez Foods, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. In addition, he has received the
Chandler-Frates & Reitz (1994), Greiner Undergraduate (1995), Regents Distinguished
(1995) and Greiner Graduate (2004) Teaching Awards. He also won the 1999, OSU
University Extension Faculty Excellence Award and the 2009 Richard W. Poole Faculty
Outreach Excellence Award.
TCOM 5153 International Telecommunications Management T
In the increasing global environment of today, numerous fi rms have established telecommunications
networks traversing national boundaries. This course will concentrate
on evaluating and understanding the implications and problems associated with such
international ventures, both as suppliers and users of telecommunications services.
A major part of the course will be spent on identifying the major players in the global
information infrastructure, standards setting bodies and procedures, and the various
regulatory processes that will be encountered. Students will focus on the policies and
procedures that are unique to the application of technologies in a global market. Some
familiarity with telecommunications technology on the part of students is assumed.
Further, the underlying principles of establishing, managing and utilizing such networks
will be investigated. Graduate students will research the telecommunications industry
in another country (besides the United States) and develop a comprehensive written
project report.
Faculty:
Dr. Charles Gray has more than 50 years of progressively responsible management
and engineering experience in telecommunications and information technology. He
has extensive training and experience in telephone traffi c engineering in both missioncritical
military and business environments. Dr. Gray also has extensive experience in
design and engineering of large networked call centers. He has experience in design,
engineering, implementation and operation of large national and international private
telephone networks, including, toll-free services. He has also been involved in the
design, engineering and operations of local telephone systems (PBX and Centrex
service). Dr. Gray has detailed knowledge of the largest American national networks,
including design and operation of software-defi ned (virtual) networks, and he has
general knowledge of the regulatory and competitive environment in international
locations. Dr. Gray also has nine years of experience as a Teaching Associate (formerly
Senior Lecturer) in the Master of Science in Telecommunications Management
(MSTM) program, with responsibility for developing course curriculum materials and
teaching. He is a member of the faculty of the School of International Studies at
Oklahoma State University, the editorial board of the Journal of International Telecommunications
Management, published in London and a Life Member of IEEE (Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers).
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