This program provides exposure to skills and careers in the growing fields of retailing, sales management, and human resources, while providing for flexibility for support in additional areas. This major provides students with backgrounds in strategic management, operations management, decision-making, and the organizational activities of management. In addition, students will demonstrate competencies in supervision, human resource management, sales, retailing, and entrepreneurship.

Management career opportunities include:

• General Manager
• Assistant Manager
• Sales Specialist
• Retail/Store Manager
• Management Consultant
• Entrepreneur
• Inventory Manager

COURSE INFORMATION

MGT 305 - Principles of Management

This course provides a comprehensive analysis of individual and group behavior in organizations. Its purpose is to provide an understanding of how organizations can be managed more effectively and at the same time enhance the quality of employees work life. Topics include motivation, rewarding behavior, stress, individual and group behavior, conflict, power and politics, leadership, job design, organizational structure, decision making, communication and organizational change and development.

MGT 307 - Operations Management

This course presents the design and planning activities involved in managing goods and/or service producing organizations. Included are such topics as demand forecasting, system design, aggregate planning and control, scheduling, and quality management. Along with the development of planning and controlling skills, special emphasis is given to the application of these tools with electronic spreadsheets.

MGT 308 - Entrepreneurial  Strategy 

This  course introduces  students  to  the challenges   of  owning, operating, and marketing a successful small business and the need for  entrepreneurial  focus in large firms

MGT 340 - Quality Management and Improvement

This course analyses contemporary approaches regarding quality management in goods and service producing organizations. The course focuses on acceptance sampling and statistical process control. International quality management practices are examined including the works of Crosby, Deming, Iskakawa, Juran, Taguchi, and others.

MGT 394 - Human Resource Management

This course provides a study of principles, policies, and practices related to staffing, employee development, compensation, employee and labor relations in profit, non-profit, domestic and international organizations.

MGT 439 - Business Strategy

This business capstone course provides a study of the overall functioning of various types of organizations. Emphases are given to the integration and coordination of the functional areas within the enterprise. The case method is used to provide practical experience in analysis and decision making in the solution of business problems.

MGT 445 - Retail  Management

This is a survey course dealing with managerial principles and practices of retail operation, including store location and layout, buying prices, promotion services, and inventory control.

MGT 489 - Independent Study

Individualized instruction/research at an advanced level in a specialized content area under the direction of a faculty member. May be repeated when the topic varies.