Foundation Course International Program
| MGMG504 Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management |
EN
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| Course description This course provides an understanding of the behavior of people and their approaches to working in organizations. Topics include communication, decision- making, leadership, power, motivation, and conflict within organizations. The course also explores human resource management and its role in organizational effectiveness. HR issues explored in the course include: human resource planning, recruitment and selection of personnel, compensation management, development and training, and labor relations. |
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| MGMG509 Strategic Management |
EN GM HR
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| Course description Differentiating a successful company from its peers is its ability to forge business strategies that give competitive edge over its rivals, regardless of changes in business conditions. The mission of this course is to explore why good strategic management leads to good business performance, to present the basic concepts and tools of strategic analysis, to explore different ways of crafting business strategies, and to execute these competently. Students learn to analyze and evaluate all aspects of companies' external and internal circumstances, to differentiate between good strategy and bad, and develop the skills to formulate better alternative strategies. |
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| MGMG510 Enterprise Resource Management |
IM
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| Course description Enterprise resource management covers the optimization of business performance to satisfy customers' needs through integration of business operations. The course gives an overview of organization-wide planning, control and monitoring of business processes. |
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| MGMG517 Investment Management |
FM
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| Course description Principles of investment, the various kinds of financial instruments, the security markets and indexes, the investment returns and risks, modern portfolio theories, valuation models, and the efficient market hypothesis, characteristics and markets of the equity and fixed-income securities, measuring the portfolio performances, the methods to forecast and analyze the economic conditions, the industry and the company, warrants and convertible bonds. |
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| MGMG518 Financial Planning and Strategy |
FM
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| Course description Formulation of the financial strategy assisting management in making a financial decision, raising capital, equity or debt financing, the weighted-average cost of capital, preferred stocks and hybrid securities, dividend policy, capital budgeting decision, mergers and acquisitions, financial planning and strategy in multi-business companies, earnings per share evaluation, leasing, international finance strategies, and risk management. |
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| MGMG520 Consumer Behavior |
MM
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| Course description This course is designed to help improve marketing effectiveness for businesses in Thailand. Whether working for SMEs or MNCs, understanding consumer behavior is an integral part of business development and marketing success. The course provides guidelines for understanding consumer and buyer behavior and factors influencing that behavior, with an emphasis on local examples and situations. Special emphasis is placed on practical business applications and questions several concepts that are widely taught and believed today by both academics and business practitioners. |
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| MGMG523 Decision Skills |
IM MM NV
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| Course description Managers in modern organizations are assuming increasing responsibility and making decisions of far-reaching consequence for the organization. This course explores frameworks for effective decision-making. It presents models and tools for decision makers, discusses the use of information, cultural and organizational factors that affect decisions, and ethical dimensions of decisions. Students complete the course with knowledge of both rational, objective approaches to decision-making and of subjective aspects of executive decisions. |
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| MGMG532 Research Methodology in Marketing |
MM
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| Course description Marketing information collection methodology from consumer or business markets, problem recognition, research design, questionnaire design, and data collection in order to maximize the value of information, statistical methods and computer software for data analysis. |
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| MGMG562 Introduction to Business Planning |
EN NV
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| Course description This course introduces the new venture creation process and the preparation of the business plan. It studies the history of new venture creation both in the recent past and in key periods of rapid innovation such as the Industrial Revolution. |
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| MGMG584 Strategic Leadership |
GM
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| Course description The scene of leadership, global leadership, strategic leadership & competition, visionary leadership, Vision communication, Strategic Alignment, Empowerment and motivation, organic leadership, sustainable leadership, leadership learning, leadership ethics |
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| MGMG586 Quantitative Methods in Finance |
FM
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| Course description Statistical concepts and market returns, probability concepts, common probability distributions, sampling and estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression, multiple regression and issues in regression analysis, mathematical, statistical and financial functions in Financial software for quantitative methods, linear algebra and linear programming mean-variance analysis, optimization, implementing mean-variance analysis, macros and objects in Financial software for quantitative methods, visual basic for applications |
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| MGMG602 Organization Development and Management for Changes |
HR
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| Course description This course focuses on developing the perspectives, knowledge and skills needed to lead organizational change in a rapidly changing global context. In this modern era, leaders must be able to use organization development techniques to increase the capacities of their organizations to innovate and adapt. Students will use a series of problem-based exercises as a basis for reflecting on the role of leaders in bringing about change in 21st century organizations. Students will work throughout the course in teams as they actively. |
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| MGMG605 Project Management |
IM
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| Course description Project management is an essential skill for modern managers operating in a dynamic environment where change is achieved through project implementation. The Project Management course explores all aspects of project management throughout the entire cycle including activities in selection, definition, initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, control, completion, and post-implementation review. Students use a project management information system to support their project management activities. On completion students have developed an understanding of project management and have acquired practical experience of the entire project cycle. |
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| MGMG608 International Business Management |
GM
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| Course description The globalization of markets offers unique opportunities for Thai SME's that did not exist even 10 years ago. This course provides an overview of how the changing global business environment is affecting business transactions across national borders. It emphasizes a practical approach to doing business with foreign partners for Thai SME's. The course pays special attention to joint ventures, trading, customs procedures, tariffs, and international finance. The subject also addresses rules and procedures of the World Trade Organization, regional trade groups (e.g., APEC, ASEAN, AFTA) and the implications for companies in Thailand. |
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| MGMG613 Management of Innovation |
NV
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| Course description Building innovation capability is a challenge for managers and business owners. The course focuses on the process of innovation management. These includes searching for signals to generate innovation possibilities, strategically selecting which possibilities to take forward, and turning idea to reality. |
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| MGMG621 Human Resource Planning and Development |
HR
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| Course description Corporate performance can be elevated through the use of individual competencies - the behaviors that separate high performers from average performers. This course addresses recruitment, training and development, succession planning and promotion as well as methods for identifying the presence of competencies among staff. |
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