ENT 113: Family Business Management
Class
About
This course provides an introduction to the uniqueness of the family business. It revolves around the discussion of the family business dynamics: the family firm’s cycle, governance structure, conflict management and succession planning.
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This course is designed to equip students with the necessary knowledge in the management of family business.
1. Be familiar with the concepts and principles governing family business;
2. Be able to discuss family business dynamics;
3. Integrate strategic management basics in the family business.
Traditional teaching aids such as textbook and references prescribed by the instructor, visual aids, and materials on current events and trends in the local and global business environment as well as technological teaching aids such as video supplements and information and other data from the internet as the instructor requires.
The student is also required to be a member of the class e-group (to be announced). This would be the means of communication of the class should there be materials or information that need to be disseminated from the professor to the class or vice-versa. Please ensure that you have signed up no later than the second week of class.
Expectations From Each Student:
The student’s responsibility is to come to each class prepared. She is also expected to take all examinations on the dates scheduled. She should read the assigned materials and solve assigned problem materials prior to class. She is expected to attend each class and participate actively in the discussions.
Academic Dishonesty:
All Business students are expected to be academically honest. Cheating, lying and other forms of immoral and unethical behavior will not be tolerated. Any student found guilty of cheating in examinations or plagiarism in submitted course requirements will (at a minimum) receive an F (or 0.00) or failure in the course. Plagiarism and cheating refer to the use of unauthorized books, notes or otherwise; securing help in a test, copying tests, assignments, reports or term papers; representing the work of another person as one’s own, collaborating, without authority, with another student during an examination or in preparing academic work; signing another student’s name on attendance sheet; or otherwise practicing scholastic dishonesty.