Management 200 goes international
Morgan Buell
Issue date: 4/17/09 Section: Campus News
Next to Business 101, Management 200 is one of the more tedious group-oriented classes that one will ever take at Bryant. You still may have nightmares of that dreadful team leader or the member who never showed. Whatever the case was, you remember the project. That will be especially true for this year's management classes taught by Professor Eileen Kwesiga, who has spun the service-learning idea into international projects that she incorporated into each of her Management 200 sections.
The dominant focus of this course is to help students integrate management theories into a coherent framework for management practice. It is the intent of this course to provide novice business professionals with state of the art management knowledge to act effectively and think decisively. Students are exposed to the historical classics of Management Theory, as well as the four pillars of managerial behavior: planning, leading, organizing, and controlling. Students finish the course by successfully integrating the coursework leaving a legacy of a service learning project.
Professor Kwesiga admits, "I am encouraging some of the teams to work together just like sometimes departments in organizations collaborate on ventures to take advantage of economies of scale, as well as to share the best practices."
The classes were separated into a "Communication Group," "Logistics Group," "Awareness Group," "Sustainability Group," and "Traveling Group." Each team has responsibilities to fulfill. The Communication group has to establish a connection with the organization. This consists of maintaining contact, creating a website and a video project to share the class's endeavors with the organization. The logistics group is responsible in figuring out how to transport donations to the organization's location. The awareness group is in charge of marketing for the organization and attaining as much media as possible through radio and local area churches. The fundraising group is responsible for fundraising and acquiring donations. The sustainability group is looking for ways to maintain the organization over the coming years. Finally, the traveling group is working with the study abroad office for an opportunity to travel to Kenya to visit the participating organizations.
The dominant focus of this course is to help students integrate management theories into a coherent framework for management practice. It is the intent of this course to provide novice business professionals with state of the art management knowledge to act effectively and think decisively. Students are exposed to the historical classics of Management Theory, as well as the four pillars of managerial behavior: planning, leading, organizing, and controlling. Students finish the course by successfully integrating the coursework leaving a legacy of a service learning project.
Professor Kwesiga admits, "I am encouraging some of the teams to work together just like sometimes departments in organizations collaborate on ventures to take advantage of economies of scale, as well as to share the best practices."
The classes were separated into a "Communication Group," "Logistics Group," "Awareness Group," "Sustainability Group," and "Traveling Group." Each team has responsibilities to fulfill. The Communication group has to establish a connection with the organization. This consists of maintaining contact, creating a website and a video project to share the class's endeavors with the organization. The logistics group is responsible in figuring out how to transport donations to the organization's location. The awareness group is in charge of marketing for the organization and attaining as much media as possible through radio and local area churches. The fundraising group is responsible for fundraising and acquiring donations. The sustainability group is looking for ways to maintain the organization over the coming years. Finally, the traveling group is working with the study abroad office for an opportunity to travel to Kenya to visit the participating organizations.
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