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MGMT615 - Strategic Planning

Course Details

Course Code: MGMT615 Course ID: 2674 Credit Hours: 3 Level: Graduate

Being a strategic or visionary leader has been identified as one of the top five skills needed to be successful in the global economy. This course outlines successful Strategic Management and Planning techniques, and it addresses the fundamentals of the strategic alignment of people, resources and processes to the business vision, mission, and purpose of the organization.





Course Schedule

Registration Dates Course Dates Session Weeks
02/24/20 - 07/31/20 08/03/20 - 09/27/20 Summer 2020 Session I 8 Week session
03/30/20 - 09/04/20 09/07/20 - 11/01/20 Summer 2020 Session D 8 Week session
04/27/20 - 10/02/20 10/05/20 - 11/29/20 Fall 2020 Session B 8 Week session
05/25/20 - 10/30/20 11/02/20 - 12/27/20 Fall 2020 Session I 8 Week session
06/29/20 - 12/04/20 12/07/20 - 01/31/21 Fall 2020 Session D 8 Week session
07/27/20 - 01/01/21 01/04/21 - 02/28/21 Winter 2021 Session B 8 Week session

Current Syllabi

After successfully completing this course, students will be able to:

  • LO1: Differentiate the essential strategic elements that contribute to achieving and sustaining a competitive advantage in both a domestic setting, as well as globally.
  • LO2: Design a strategic plan in the context of organizational management.
  • LO3: Evaluate key ethical concerns and responsibilities inherent in strategic planning
  • LO4: Construct appropriate elements of the theoretical/conceptual framework, crafting processes, and execution procedures of a strategy implementation

Grading for the course will be based on the following:

  • Eight Forum Assignments
  • Four Assignments
  • Final Project
NameGrade %
Discussion Forums 40.00 %
Week 1 Forum 5.00 %
Week 2 Forum 5.00 %
Week 3 Forum 5.00 %
Week 4 Forum 5.00 %
Week 5 Forum 5.00 %
Week 6 Forum 5.00 %
Week 7 Forum 5.00 %
Week 8 Forum 5.00 %
Assignments 40.00 %
Week 2: MVV-Mission, Vision, and Values 10.00 %
Week 4: Conceptual Learning Summary 10.00 %
Week 5: Websites Review 10.00 %
Week 6: Ethical News Story Video 10.00 %
Final Paper 20.00 %
Week 8: Final Project 20.00 %

This is an open access course. There are no required textbooks.

Optional Textbook for APA:

American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. ISBN --- 10: 1---4338---0561---8

Required Readings:

See Course Outline schedule.

Additional Resources:

See the Course Materials folder additional course articles and resources may be added along with APA handouts.

Websites

In addition to the resources in the Library Guides the following public domain Websites are useful. Please abide by the university’s academic honesty policy when using Internet sources as well (web site addresses may change).

Site Name

Website URL/Address

The OWL at Purdue

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

American Management Association

http://www.amanet.org/

Society for Human Resource Management

http://www.shrm.org/Pages/Default.aspx

APA Style Homepage

http://www.apastyle.org/index.aspx

Academy of Management

http://www.aom.org/

Business Net

http://www.bnet.com
Book Title:Various resources from the APUS Library & the Open Web are used. Please visit http://apus.libguides.com/er.php to locate the course eReserve.*
ISBN:ERESERVE NOTE

Previous Syllabi

Not current for future courses.