Business Management

​​Computers and information technology are the foundation of business today. This course provides an understanding of computer terminology, operating systems, and the most popular office software used in business. Students learn to use spreadsheets (e.g. Microsoft Excel), word processing applications (e.g. Microsoft Word), and presentation and graphics programs (e.g. Microsoft PowerPoint). Students also get an introduction to cloud computing and enterprise collaboration tools. The course also provides an overview of digital literacy, Web-based collaboration, and publishing and productivity tools.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​Organizational behaviour and management principles study the factors necessary to build high performing teams and organizations. In this course students develop an understanding of how individual and team behaviours impact the effective operation of organizations. The concepts and frameworks discussed in this course form the building blocks of successful organizational development, leadership, and management. Key areas of learning include organizational culture, individual factors including personality, attitudes, perception, motivation, communication, and team dynamics. The course also includes organizational structure and design, decision making, an introduction to leadership development, and management functions including systems, controlling, planning, power and politics. Learning modalities include individual and group assignments, case studies, and an industry-based research project. Critical thinking is an outcome of the applied learning modalities.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

COMM 1100 is designed to give students basic listening, writing and speaking skills that will allow them to prepare written and oral reports for BCIT courses and to proceed to more advanced communication courses.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

Presents a challenging overview of the workings of an economy. Stresses measurement and determination of national economic activity, the role of monetary and fiscal policy, and the understanding of inflation, unemployment and growth in an international environment. Prepares students to weigh political and economic issues as they relate to their business ventures.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​​Operations management may be defined as the design, operation and improvement of the systems that create the firm's products or services. Demand for quality, time-based competition and international production has demonstrated the importance of operations management to the survival of the firm. This course will develop an appreciation for the nature and role of operations in a firm, and the strategic importance of operations to provide a competitive advantage in the marketplace. More specifically the course will examine operations strategy; quality management; product and service design; process and facilities planning, analysis and reengineering; Materials Management, and supply chain management.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

Reviews basic mathematics applicable to business and industry. Topics include consumer and commercial credit, simple and compound interest, financial instruments and discounting, annuities, mortgages, loans, sinking funds, leases, depreciation methods, capitalized costs, cash flow analysis, NPV and IRR. Emphasis is on maximum use of pre-programmed calculator and practical applications from the field of Financial Management.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​In an information-based society, every enterprise requires business analytics and decision support systems to enable a competitive advantage. As a result, knowledge workers across all industries increasingly require an understanding of data modelling and advanced data management and analytical techniques. Building off the foundational skills learned in BSYS-1000, this course leverages the Microsoft ecosystem, including Access, Excel and Power Query, Microsoft's data transformation and data preparation engine, to perform complex data management tasks. Advanced formulae, concepts, and data modelling theory will enable students to connect to various types of data to enable the analysis and presentation of data to enable business insight.​
Prerequisite(s):

• 50% in BSYS 1000

This course provides further instruction and practice in the principles taught in COMM 1100. It concentrates on more sophisticated forms of written communication: the job application package, indirect correspondence, and reports. The course might also include modules on graphics, questionnaires, telephone techniques, and organizing and running meetings.
Prerequisite(s):

• 50% in COMM 1100

This course investigates economic analysis, focusing on fundamentals of markets, supply and demand, consumer and producer behaviour, and monopoly and competition. Optional areas of business application may explore labour markets, government intervention and environmental regulation. Prepares students to identify and evaluate the economic considerations they will undoubtedly encounter in business.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

This course focuses on the context of accounting and the use of accounting information for decision making, planning, and control. It will examine how managers can utilize the tools of economics, forecasting, accounting/finance, and decision theory to aid in these critical decisions. The course will consider how differences and changes in the internal operating conditions and in the external political-economic environment can affect a manager's resource allocation decisions. Topics include incremental analysis, short- and long-run decision-making and financial analysis.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

Introduces an understanding of the international operating environment. This course will scan the current global trading environment and provide base skills required by international firms to identify risk and analyze opportunities.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

Designed for persons interested in management and/or supervision. It develops an understanding of significant human resource management processes and systems utilized in today's business and government organizations. Employment-related legislation and current human resource management issues are surveyed. Topics cover human resource management processes with some emphasis on practical application of the techniques studied.
Prerequisite(s):

• BUSA 2100 and ORGB 1100 or BUSA 2150

Marketing 1102 is an introduction to the fundamentals of marketing. In addition to the "four Ps" of marketing—product, price, place, and promotion—students will be introduced to how marketers create customer-driven marketing strategies based on their research and understanding of the marketing environment and customers. Students will plan a strategy for and compete in an online marketing simulation. After the simulation, students will evaluate their performance and deliver a marketing plan for their simulation company, which will be assessed on students' application of marketing terminology and processes and in the professionalism of their work. Additionally, students will complete assignments, quizzes, and exams.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

​Includes descriptive statistics, including numerical and graphical presentation of data, measures of central tendency, dispersion and elementary probabilities. Introduction to several discrete and continuous probability distributions. Introduction to inferential statistics through selected topics such as sampling, confidence limits of the mean, hypotheses testing, and the chi-squared test for independence.​
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

Presents a practical study of Canadian business law, including the legal and administrative systems, torts, contracts, sale of goods and consumer protection, employment, business organizations, and intellectual property. Participation in this course, taught by lawyers, prepares you to recognize and feel comfortable with the legal aspects of doing business.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

Big Data continues to have a significant impact on business. This course serves as an introduction to the key aspects of how business intelligence is used in current business practices. Students will build business intelligence knowledge through the practical hands-on development of data analysis software and other applications and apply this knowledge by analyzing information to make business decisions.
Prerequisite(s):

• BSYS 2000

This course emphasizes intrapreneurial management with an emphasis on innovative decision-making in medium to large sized firms. The major project will be the development of a business plan focusing on strategic concepts, industry analysis, leadership applications and operational controls for a new business concept. The course provides a practical opportunity for students to realistically assess the potential of a new corporate idea and develop a detailed plan for innovation and implementation that will resonate with a company’s senior management. The course covers a range of topics that will increase your understanding of what it takes to innovate and implement an intrapreneurial concept within an organization.
Prerequisite(s):

• BUSA 2100

This is an introductory course to critically review the socio-cultural environment in which business operates. Every day, we make ethical decisions in our personal lives that affect our lives; working in the industry, we make ethical decisions that affect the business-society and business-environment relationships. Much of the time, we are unaware of our choices' consequences and unconsciously make them. But our choices matter. The course begins by looking at business ethics and why it is everyone’s business. This course takes an introductory, pluralistic approach to ethics and combines it with practical case studies. Students will be reflecting on their moral development as they encounter different topics related to social and environmental sustainability. This course equips business professionals with key capabilities for managing and leading organizations with an ethical and a sustainability mindset.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

This course provides an introduction for managers to management accounting's role in planning, directing, and controlling operations in manufacturing and service organizations. The emphasis of the topic coverage is on methods for budgeting, product costing, and performance measurement, as well as on analytical techniques that can be applied to financial and operating data to support management decisions.
Prerequisite(s):

• FMGT 2100 or FMGT 2152

Examines the basic approaches to market research. Discusses research techniques and tools and relates these tools to the decision-making process. Special applications of marketing research to simulated real-life situations are examined.
Prerequisite(s):

• 50% in MKTG 2202 or 50% in MKTG 2203

Provides a clear understanding of the role of a leader at a personal, team and organizational level. An understanding of the traditional and recently developed leadership theories provides a foundation from which to examine personal approaches to leadership. The student is encouraged to explore opportunities for personal development and growth as a leader, recognizing the importance of integrity and values based decision-making in challenging and complex situations.
Prerequisite(s):

• ORGB 1100 or ORGB 1105

This course emphasizes the use of decision-making models in business. It educates students in the use of quantitative methods in the choice of alternatives in the decision-making process. Computers will be used to solve problems. 
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

Strengthens the understanding of the role of the Internet in a business setting. Continues the development of web building skills and looks at the benefits and limitations of the Internet and its supporting software. A major component of the course is the planning and development of a small business web site.
Prerequisite(s):

• BSYS 3100

What you measure is what you get: the measures you use strongly affect the behaviour of the managers and employees of an organization. This course will introduce an approach to performance measurement which includes the Balanced Scorecard and Triple Bottom Line models. A strategy-based balanced scorecard system aligned with principles of the triple bottom line offers a way to accomplish social and environmental goals while integrating them with financial and operational performance to achieve competitive advantage
Prerequisite(s):

• BUSA 2100 and BUSA 3500

Analyses business strategy formulation to give the student practical experience and confidence in handling complex business situations. Comprehensive business cases will be selected in fields such as finance, control, personnel, production, marketing, and general management. Acquaints the student with management decision-making and effective verbal and written business analysis. Teamwork and organizational change are addressed as elements of strategy implementation.
Prerequisite(s):

• 50% in BUSA 2005 or 50% in BUSA 2100
• Departmental approval needed to register in this course. Course registration is restricted to students that have completed a minimum of 30 credits of coursework in business programs and completed BUSA 2005 or 50% in BUSA 2100 or 50% in BUSA 2150. To be considered for registration approval, please email the Business Administration Part Studies Program Assistant at Kim_Petkov@bcit.ca **Full-time day school students in the School of Business may not enroll in this course without the express consent of their day school Program Head.**

Designed to give students practical application of concepts learned in major program areas by engaging in problem solving projects in business or government.
Prerequisite(s):

• Successful completion of Level 1 and 2 courses but may be short one Level 3 course.

This course allows those with little or no knowledge of financial management to study the various methods of optimizing the economic position of a firm. It provides students with a conceptual understanding of the financial decision-making process in a business context and an appreciation of the impact that financial decisions have on value creation by focussing on the management and allocation of financial resources within the firm.
Prerequisite(s):

• FMGT 3221

A necessary skill set in today's world - designed for those involved in, or associated with labour relations as management or union. Covers the collective bargaining process and day-to-day contract administration. Related laws, typical contract clauses, grievance procedures, responsibilities of the supervisor and the shop steward, and current activities in the labour relations field. Students will learn to approach their responsibilities for matters covered by collective agreements with more confidence and expertise.
Prerequisite(s):

• No prerequisites are required for this course.

Introduces additional project management techniques to analyze, design, and improve workplace processes. Projects are unique and uncertain environments, managing this uncertainty and tailoring the project approach is critical to a successful project. The course focuses on application of the techniques to realistic case materials and the student Business Consulting Projects. The course covers the full project lifecycle and provides an opportunity to use a range of management methods necessary to deliver value. The course reinforces the systematic design, problem solving approaches and teamwork skills introduced in first year core courses. Project Management methodologies and approaches presented are consistent with the Project Management Body of Knowledge and the Standard for Project Management.​
Prerequisite(s):

• 50% in OPMT 1100

This course looks at planned organizational change, defined as a set of activities and processes designed to change individuals, groups, and organizational processes, systems and structures. A number of models, frameworks and tools are used to identify the need for change and to understand the elements required for implementing an effective change strategy. The course addresses change as non-linear, complex and often messy undertaking, where multiple perspectives and approaches are required.
Prerequisite(s):

• ORGB 1100 or ORGB 1105