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The Management major focuses on using resources to achieve goals in organizations. It studies the activities and operations that bring together human, financial, material, and information resources. Management majors should graduate with an understanding of the business world and a set of tools to manage successfully parts or all of an organization’s operations. The Management degree allows students the ability to customize their degree within one of two tracks:
1) Human Resources Focus - An experiential-learning focused program designed to prepare students to develop and manage the human capital of an organization. Students will be prepared to develop and implement policies and practices for recruitment, socialization, training, development, compensation, performance management, career planning, and employee relations. As more organizations move away from viewing employees as a commodity, toward an understanding that employees are a resource that can be developed into a distinct competitive advantage to ensure organizational success, sustainability, and reputation in the human resource function in the workplace will become increasingly important. This track will help employees understand the core functions of the area of human resource management are to a) recognize the potential of individuals for and within an organization and b) structure a positive, supportive, constructive work environment that will enable employees to work at their optimal capacity and achieve organizational goals.
2) General Management Focus - A multi-faceted program designed to prepare students to manage multiple business functions across a variety of organizational types. A particular emphasis is to help develop interpersonal and problem-solving skills so they are capable of resolving a broad spectrum of problems for large or small organizations, or consult with organizations about these issues. This track is designed to provide students with a large degree of flexibility when considering different career paths, because students will be prepared to systematically think through the processes that organizations use to create and maintain sustainable competitive advantage. The track prepares students to work in for-profit businesses, non-profit organizations, entrepreneurial ventures, or in government organizations.
3) Hospitality Focus - An experiential-learning focused program designed to provide students an understanding of the operations of multiple domains of the hospitality industry including food and beverage, tourism and lodging, entrepreneurship, and consumer relations. Knowledge in these areas is critical for anyone desiring to work in the hospitality industry or for a business that services the hospitality industry.
The Management major, including the three focus areas, is available to students as an online degree completion program.
All management courses for the major require a minimum grade of C (not C-).
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