2013-2014 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
Management - Program Description
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The management major provides students with a balance of technical and interpersonal skills required to be effective managers and to lead others in a world of constant change and intense competition. This major offers four areas of emphasis.
General Management
This 18-credit hour emphasis is recommended if you are interested in more diverse areas of management. It allows for combining interests in areas such as human resource management, organizational information systems and operations management by selecting from a range of courses.
Career Opportunities: With the versatile general management emphasis, you are prepared for positions as branch managers, customer service managers, departmental managers, account managers, and catalog managers.
Human Resources
Business, nonprofit, government, and union organizations all need specialists who are trained to respond to employee concerns, administer labor and employment laws, and design policies dealing with diversity and equal opportunity, recruiting and selection, training, performance appraisal, compensation, benefits, discipline, and labor negotiations. Study in the area of human resources emphasizes the management of the relationship between an organization and its employees. Curriculum is focused on organizational efficiency and effectiveness.
Career Opportunities: As organizations grow and add employees, the demand for human resource managers increases. With an emphasis in human resources, graduates may find employment as human resource managers, training directors, staffing specialists, human resource specialists, and benefits managers.
Operations Management
Operations management involves the application of managerial, quantitative, and computer skills to areas of lean, six-sigma, ERP, inventory management, forecasting and scheduling, with the goal of providing you with the tools you need to effectively manage service and manufacturing operations. This emphasis is designed to prepare you in the technical and strategic aspects of producing goods and services.
Career Opportunities: Graduates from the operations management emphasis are prepared for employment in a variety of businesses that require technical and strategic analysis of their business processes. Careers in operations management include lean six-sigma managers, materials managers, plant managers, quality managers, continuous improvement coordinators, service managers, and customer service managers.
Management Information Systems
The management information systems emphasis provides a combination of technical and managerial skills that prepare you to interpret end-user business needs and translate them into effective technology based solutions. Information Systems (IS) are the backbone of most business organizations. An emphasis in MIS deals with the application of technology to support the operational activities of an organization and the information necessary to execute those activities. Our Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Initiative uses the worlds leading ERP software to expose you to real-world business processes, problems and solutions. People who understand the organizations business processes, as well as the technical environment are in great demand.
Career Opportunities: You may find positions such as Webmaster, director of e-commerce, Web analyst/developer, ERP administrator, ERP consultant, and applications consultant.
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