**Required only for a major in Human Resource Management

Minor in Management requires the above courses marked "*" and all core Management courses (2 credits).

Description of Core Management courses

This course is designed to provide an overview of the world of business. The basic principles and practices of contemporary business are reviewed as a foundation for further business education. Key business functions including management, marketing, accounting, finance, quality control systems, human resource practices, and management information systems are studied. In addition, the course covers such topics as small business, entrepreneurship, global business, and ethics.  

This course deals with the role and nature of management as it is used in contemporary business. The course will provide a systematic understanding of the core concepts of management theory and practice. A brief review of the foundations of key management thinking will be presented to set the context. This will be followed by an exploration of the environment for the managers and a discussion of the social and ethical issues which affect managers. The diverse roles of the manager in contemporary business are then explored placing emphasis on identifying the key role effective management can play in developing successful organizations, private and public, large and small.

This course examines basic legal principles. This allows students to recognize relevant issues and the legal implications of business situations. The principles of Kazakhstan law will be applied to accounting, auditing, and decision-making throughout the course. The political, social, and ethical implications of these issues are also debated.

This course examines the enterprise as a whole including understanding how and why the various functions of a business are interdependent and need to be coordinated. The course looks at the environment in which a business operates its strategy, and internal administrative activities. The emphasis is on the kinds of problems and issues that affect the success of the entire organization.

Description of Elective Management Courses

This class introduces the principles of communication in organizations. The most common organizational communication variables are reviewed; e.g. communication distortion, conflict, power, managerial leadership style, roles, interviewing, and information overload and under-load. The emphasis is placed on the application of the principles reviewed to the organizational setting. Simulations, exercises, and case studies are used to give the course material strong practical relevance.

The course focuses on ideas that can be used in business to understand decisions generally. The curriculum includes the concepts of rational choice, identity, appropriateness, and history-dependent rules. The course also explores how decisions are made in the face of inconsistency in preferences or identities. Prospects for decision engineering are also explored in detail.

This course is intended for future managers who require knowledge on how to
motivate people, how to manage groups and use appropriate leadership styles. It is modeled as an integrated framework that consists of lectures and training.

This course deals with the art and skills of negotiating in various business situations. Cases involving and analyzing issues and problems ranging from sales and contracts to the most complicated issues of international business will be discussed.

This course compares management styles used in various countries and the effectiveness of those styles on that culture. Methods will be contrasted with current management methods used in Kazakhstan to formulate effective methods for practical use. Focus is on the design of the organization; political, legal, and economic concerns; personnel issues; and, negotiating strategies.

This course involves study of the issues and logistics involved in conducting business in the international arena. Issues such as globalization, the impact of economics, socio-cultural factors, and economic policy are discussed in detail. The

nature and economic role of the multinational corporation including the impact of legal, political, educational, and cultural variables upon firm performance and managerial activity forms the core of the course. Case studies illustrate managerial, marketing and financial and accounting activities, in the global economic space

Lectures and case study methods are applied to investigate and analyze problems related to small business start-ups and functions. Included are: selecting a location, business planning, organizational control, finances, and other areas of interest to the small business owner. The course includes formulating a business plan.

The purpose of the course is to provide the student with an understanding of compensation and rewards systems management in contemporary organizations. This course examines and reviews the elements of compensation and rewards systems that affect organizations including theoretical aspects and justifications. This leads into a detailed discussion of the practicalities of making wage decisions, incentives and benefits design techniques, and the administrative aspects of the compensation management process.

The purpose of performance management is to improve performance in critical areas by creating accountability to goals and objectives. This course will provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills of ensuring effective staff performance over a period of time, i.e. through tracking and strategic control and performance opportunity setting.

  Bang College of Business, KIMEP, 2 Abai Avenue, Almaty, 050010
Tel.: +7 327 270-44-96        Fax: +7 327 270-44-63
E-mail: bcb@kimep.kz