This course surveys classic and current conceptual and empirical research in services marketing and management in the context of the hospitality, leisure, tourism and other service sectors. Students have the opportunity to develop their creative capacity in the development of theoretical extensions of the research and applications in hospitality and other service intensive contexts including health care, educational and financial services

Materials from behavioral and social sciences used to expand understanding of marketing phenomena.

The module will examine the study of organizational behavior within the context of the sport industry. The module will provide coverage of key organizational behavior topics and accompanying theories, as well as an examination of how these topics/theories are being studied in the sport management literature.

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

Techniques of multivariate statistical an-alysis as applied to business research. Discriminant analysis, canonical correlation, multivariate analysis of variance and covariance, factor analysis, cluster analysis.

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Examines and evaluates legal problems as they relate to the business environment. Course will deal with areas of law including contracts, agency, ethics, bankruptcy, business organization and other areas of commercial law.

Overview of human resource management theory and practice in organizations. Legal framework; job design; recruitment, selection, performance appraisal, and separation; compensation; benefits; contemporary issues in HRM.

Basic concepts of supply chain management such as synchronized information, product and financial flow, channel design and configuration, supplier relationships, internal and external logistics, and inventory deployment and replenishment. Supply chain modeling for the optimization and monitoring of a supply chain, or a segment thereof, using network (mathematical programming) models.