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Specialized Course Descriptions: Bachelor of Science in Business Administration BAM 401 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS 3 Semester Units Basic principles of foreign trade and finance. Analysis of character and importance to the United States. Theory of comparative costs. Balance of trade, tariffs. BAM 406 BUSINESS AND SOCIETY 3 Semester Units How business functions in, reacts to, and affects its social environment. Socioeconomic model, power-responsibility model, pluralistic social system model, cost-benefit model, and government regulatory model. BAM 410 ORGANIZATION THEORY AND BEHAVIOR 3 Semester Units A study of organization, focus and purpose. Individuals and organizations. Coalition formation and organizational objectives. Formal organizations. Bureaucracy: elements and functions. Administrative theory. Classical theory. Scientific management. The Human Relations Movement. Modern theory. Systems Analysis of organizations. The nature of power. Dynamics of power organizations. Decision making, etc. BAM 450 PSYCHOLOGY AND WORK 3 Semester Units An introductory course in industrial organizational (1-O) psychology, which stresses the practical application of the psychology of work in modern society. Topics include human resources development; the workplace, and psychology related to the organization, engineering, and the consumer. |
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