Unethical behavior has deleterious consequences for employees and organizations alike. Drawing on over 30 years of business behavioral ethics research, this course will help students understand the psychology of unethical behavior and corruption in the workplace. We will explore questions such as why do individuals engage in unethical behavior at work, how does individual-level behavior "level up" within organizations, and what are the levers available to organizational decision makers interested in creating a healthy ethical infrastructure?

As the workforce becomes more diverse, and movements such as #MeToo and Black Lives Matter highlight the lived experiences of members of historically-marginalized groups, it remains critical to understand the effects of diverse identities and the concomitant (dis)advantage these identities confer on individuals in the workplace. In this course, we take a deep-dive into organizational scholarship on this topic and consider the role and effects of surface- and deep-level diversity at the individual, group, and organizational levels.

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Selected topics of current significance to researchers and practitioners in the hospitality industry. The course emphasizes the identification of advancements in theories and their applications in hospitality cultures of inquiry.

This course is designed to be a graduate level seminar in theory construction in general and as it applies to the tourism phenomenon and its impacts. It is designed to give students an introduction into the basic concepts of theory using published research from the fields of management, marketing, hospitality and tourism management. Students are expected to develop an understanding of classic theories within their specific areas of interest and create a foundation framework for three dissertation research.

This is a course on the fundamentals of experimental design couched within a marketing and consumer behavior/psychology paradigm, intended for graduate students planning a research career. The course will enable students to (1) understand and review experiments presented in academic journals, and (2) design and conduct experiments as part of research projects intended for publication in good marketing and consumer behavior/psychology journals. There are no pre-requisites for the course, but it is a good idea to have passed graduate-level courses on research methods and statistics.

Examines research and scholarly approaches to organization theory by investigating both the concept 'organization' and the concept 'theory'. Presents such perspectives as decision theory, structural contingency theory, institutional theory, transaction cost economics, and network theory.

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Presentation of journal reports on business topics utilizing a quantitative approach.