Management
Ethical leaders skilled at fostering relationships, building productive teams, and achieving organizational goals are sought by companies worldwide. From motivation to analytics, management requires a diverse set of interpersonal and professional skills.
You will learn best practices of leadership, business-government relations, sustainability, critical decision-making, organizational behavior, and strategic project management.
Students frequently pair management with another focus area, such as marketing, accounting, or information systems and technology.
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Career Opportunities
Large companies and multinational corporations require management professionals to facilitate and oversee people and processes. Graduates are also well equipped for roles in project management, payroll and benefits, talent acquisition, and employee experience.
Program Information
Strong, ethical managers are sought by organizations everywhere. We provide management majors with core courses and electives designed to make you marketable in a variety of careers.
Program Type
Major, Minor
Degree
Bachelor's
Duration
4-year
Required Credit Hours
72
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Required for all business students. From Our Alumni
Minor in Management
MGMT 368W and MGMT 499W are Business Core and do not count toward a minor.
Course Descriptions: Business Core
3 credits
This course takes a three-pronged approach for instilling in students' actionable
knowledge critical for navigating the opportunities and challenges inherent in managing
themselves and others in organizations. First, students review contemporary management
research, focusing, for example, on micro-level theories of motivation and decision-making,
meso-level theories of teamwork and leadership, and macro-level theories of organizational
culture and structure. Second, students apply these theories to analyze real-world
situations, to generate and evaluate alternative courses of action, and to recommend
and defend best courses of action. Third, students are provided opportunities to enhance
their interpersonal and teamwork skills as well as their communication skills, which
are essential in the workplace.
3 credits
The focus of this course is to help students acquire the cultural intelligence they
need to interact effectively in diverse environments and cultures. While business
is an increasingly global proposition, cultural differences impact everything from
how employees are hired to how they are led to how business strategies are formed.
Consequently, this class will examine the international aspects of organizational
behavior, human resource management, labor relations, corporate strategy, political
risk and ethical issues. We will cover micro topics (e.g., cross-cultural communication)
as well as more macro topics (e.g., formulation of international strategy). This course
ties in directly our mission of preparing students to be successful in contemporary
business-an environment characterized by rapidly evolving international and cultural
challenges.
3 credits
This course provides students with ethical decision-making tools to assess and resolve
various ethical dilemmas commonly found in the students' lives and in many business
organizations. It will emphasize the individual as a decision-maker and focus on ethical
issues and dilemmas facing managers in most business organizations. Time is spent
evaluating processes organizations go through to act in a socially responsible manner,
and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders. Social and ethical problems, existing
in global societies where businesses must operate, also are investigated. MGMT 368W
is a writing intensive (W) designated course. Assignments seek to improve ethical
decision-making skills and develop basic communication competency.
Prerequisite: MGMT 261
3 credits
The primary objective of this capstone course is to improve students' ability to think
critically and view things from the perspective of the total organization by drawing
on and applying theories, concepts and tools from strategic management and earlier
business courses. The course utilizes comprehensive case studies, organizational projects
and team work to provide an integrative learning experience. The course provides students
with the opportunity to: (a) expand individual decision making paradigms to explicitly
consider the ethical, global and sustainability dimensions of all business problems;
(b) improve the system-thinking skills needed to integrate knowledge from all the
functional areas of business; (c) develop the entrepreneurial mindset needed to explore
creative possibilities and recommend original solutions; (d) sharpen the collaborative
skills needed to work effectively in group settings; and (e) strengthen the influence
skills needed to communicate effectively and successfully defend their decisions in
both oral and written forms. This course is aligned with the Principles for Responsible
Management Education (PRME) by adopting learning content and experiences best suited
to achieve the first PRME principle (i.e. Develop the capabilities of students to
be future generators of sustainable value for business and society at large and to
work for an inclusive and sustainable global economy).Course Descriptions: Required
Develop analytical thinking skills and designed to make students better decision-makers.
Provides students with the opportunity to identify, infer, analyze, and apply critical
thinking and decision-making skills to an organization. Great emphasis is placed on
preparing students to think like managers who can deal clearly, rationally, and creatively
in a dynamic workplace. In addition, it addresses formal, optimal models as well as
behavioral descriptive models. Students will consider risk, decision and outcome evaluation,
and assessment of arguments on opposing sides. Equips students with concrete skills
in critical thinking and decision making that will allow them to identify, interpret,
evaluate and solve organizational problems, as well as provide necessary strategic
direction.
Prerequisites: MGMT 261 and STAT 285
This course seeks to present an integrated overview of the social, ethical, legal,
regulatory, political, technological, environmental and international constraints,
opportunities, and responsibilities facing business organizations and business managers.
In particular, the focus is on corporate manager and business decision-making in the
context of a domestic and international business environment. Organizational stakeholders,
individuals or groups that affect or are affected by the business organization, are
targeted in an understanding of their interests, power, and coalitions - that is,
their salience - and how business managers may better manage these stakeholders in
cooperative engagement for the betterment of business, and the civil society.
Prerequisite: MGMT 261
This course is an applied treatment of organizational behavior. Students learn a number
of theories, concepts, and applications regarding authentic leadership and managerial
skills. Topics covered include motivation, personality, perception, group dynamics,
team-building, managing diversity, performance appraisals, leadership, communication,
decision-making, conflict, organizational politics, power, change, organizational
development, and the international aspects of behavioral management.
Prerequisite: MGMT 261
This course provides an overview of topics and experiences relevant to the development
of individual leadership potential. A primary goal of this course is to show how effective
leadership can be nurtured and developed in individuals. Students will have an opportunity
to practice leadership skills and receive feedback on their leadership styles in one-to-one,
as well as group settings. This course is directed towards making students think,
act, and become effective leaders in today's corporate society.
Prerequisites: MGMT 261 and MGMT 366W
Provides an overview of project management roles and environments, the project life
cycle, various techniques of planning, control, and evaluation. At the organizational
strategic level, the course examines the influences of organizational structures and
organizational behaviors in projects as well as aligning a project's goals and objectives
with the organization's goals and objectives. Analysis at the operational level includes
the nature of global and cross-functional projects and project teams, how project
teams are used to accomplish continuous improvement and to significantly change the
organization, and the considerations of stakeholders in the entire project management
cycle. Greater detail at the operational level addresses implementation issues, optimizing
the value of a project management group within the organization, and improving individual
performance within a project group. Provides a comprehensive framework for effective
project management strategically aligned and executed across an organization. This
course is a senior-level course that progressively and collectively builds on the
skills and competencies of communication, decision making, stakeholder management,
and leadership.
Prerequisites: MGMT 364W and MGMT 365
Explores the strategic role, technical functions and services provided by an organization's
personnel/human resources department. Among the topics covered are: human resource
planning, recruiting, selection, performance appraisal, training, compensation, occupational
health and safety, employee rights, labor unions, and equal employment opportunity
issues.
Prerequisite: MGMT 365