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MKTG 1025 - Professional Development

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture NoneLab None
Course Description: This course alerts students to the importance of accurately identifying and assessing elements of the workplace culture - values, norms, behaviors, and ethics that can support employee wellness and satisfaction on the job. Students are encouraged to analyze their current workplace climates relative to their own positions within those organizations. Projects and case studies focus on leadership traits, motivational theory, and teamwork development as well as time-management and stress-management strategies in workplace and classroom settings.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: Assessment score placement in RDNG 1000  or completion of RDNG 0900  or RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher; assessment score placement in ENGL 1021  or completion of ENGL 0090  with a grade of C or higher.

Major Content
  1. workplace culture, climate and their affect on employee behavior
  2. conflict management
  3. corporate mission, vision, values and ethics
  4. effective time management strategies
  5. leadership and motivation
  6. professional image for a particular work environment
  7. projecting image and behavior in the workplace
  8. quality of life in the workplace
  9. stress management techniques
  10. teamwork
  11. work style and learning organizations

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. describe the roles that values, ethics, and behavioral norms play in creating a motivational climate
  2. utilize appropriate strategies for time management, conflict management, and stress management
  3. discuss leadership traits and behaviors and their impact on campus and corporate climate
  4. work in teams and/or work groups to accomplish stated goals or tasks
  5. reflect on personal attitudes and values regarding course concepts
  6. present informational/educational/motivational concepts as a team or work group members
  7. analyze values, ethics and behavioral norms in various campus and corporate scenarios
  8. integrate life planning as a tool of professional development


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