# Management (MAN) courses

Palo Verde College · 2026-2027 Catalog · 5 courses

Source: https://catalog.paloverde.edu/index.php?catoid=2

"Offered" lists sections in this catalog year's class schedules: Fall 2026, Spring 2027.

### MAN 105 — Principles of Management and Organizations

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 hours total, 3 hours lecture weekly
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Student Learning Outcomes: Identify the steps of problem solving and decision making in organizations. Define change and stress in organizations and prepare a plan to implement changes. Identify formal and informal organizational communication processes and how to influence employees.
- General Education: Not approved for General Education
- Course Duration (Weeks): 18

This class is an introduction to the techniques of managing a business and includes an analysis of the managerial functions and principles of planning, organizing, influencing and controlling. Topics are corporate culture, the impact of the external environment, business ethics and social responsibility, motivation, communication, teamwork, globalization, and quality control.

### MAN 106 — Personnel Management

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 hours total, 3 hours lecture weekly
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Student Learning Outcomes: Identify human resources functions and management processes. Develop and define effective human resource methods. Identify strategies for improving human resources.
- General Education: Not approved for General Education
- Course Duration (Weeks): 18

Personnel techniques included in management, business and industry, such as selection, placement, testing, orientation, training, counseling, and promotion. Study of practical techniques of selecting, developing, and maintaining a competent labor force.

### MAN 107 — Small Business Management

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 hours total, 3 hours lecture weekly
- **Advisory:** Requires college-level skills in critical thinking and writing.
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Student Learning Outcomes: Describe the forms of business ownership and list the advantages and disadvantages of creating a business, buying an existing business, or franchise. Demonstrate how to create a marketing plan, financial plan, and cash flow statement. Demonstrate an understanding of risk management, ethics, and social responsibility within our legal and governmental regulatory environment.
- General Education: Not approved for General Education
- Course Duration (Weeks): 18

Factors in business success and the advantages and disadvantages of business ownership are analyzed. Problems of finance, location, layout and equipment buying, policies, pricing, advertising sales promotion, expense and inventory control, records and record keeping, and employee relations are discussed.

### MAN 145 — Organizational Behavior

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 hours total, 3 hours lecture weekly
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Student Learning Outcomes: Apply problem-solving and decision-making models to complex organizational problems. Identify effective methods to develop constructive relationships within an organization. Describe ways to enhance workplace productivity and effectiveness.
- General Education: Not approved for General Education
- Course Duration (Weeks): 18

Examines human behavior in organizations and its implications for management decisions and actions. Explores the theory and practice of working with and managing people. Topics include motivation, learning, group dynamics, leadership, communication, organizational structure and culture.

### MAN 205 — Investments

- **Units:** 3
- **Hours:** 54 hours total, 3 hours lecture weekly
- **Advisory:** MAT 106 (now STAT C1000) or MAT 110
- **Transfers to:** CSU
- **Offered:** not on the Fall 2026, Spring 2027 schedules
- Student Learning Outcomes: Identify and define the major vehicles for investing. Demonstrate familiarity with resources and publications about investments and investing. Identify investment strategies, calculate potential return, and evaluate risk factors in investing.
- General Education: Not approved for General Education
- Course Duration (Weeks): 18

This course is a survey of the vehicles and opportunities for investments; familiarization with the financial marketplace, its language and its publications; the role of finance and investment as a major component of our nation's economy; investment strategies, returns and risk.