Department of Management

Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration

All students with a management concentration must choose one of the following concentrations:

General Management

Managers give direction to organizations by developing goals and objectives, providing leadership and deciding how to use organizational resources to accomplish those goals. Managers perform four vital functions: planning-the formulating goals and strategies; organization-arranging and structuring organizational resources; leadership-motivating and leading the human resources; and control-measuring the progress toward the goals. A key focus in management is on managing people, the core of any organization.

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Human Resources Management

Human Resources Management has become viewed as highly critical to organizational success. Organizations in both the private and public sectors realize that it is their employees that provide the competitive advantage. Human resource management deals with the effective utilization of people for attaining the goals of the organization. Management of human resources means that people must be recruited, compensated, trained and developed.

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Operations and Supply Chain Management

Operations and Supply Chain Management focuses on design, operation and control of processes that transform input into finished goods or services. While the processes vary in different industries, typical operations decision areas include product and process design, quality, capacity, layout, job design, inventory management, and production planning and purchasing. Operations management allows students to quickly understand the critical processes within an organization and make improvements. Through the operations function, graduates are able to have a significant impact on the organization's profitability.

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Legal Studies

All businesses must be run with solid knowledge of the laws that govern commerce and industry. Ignorance can be expensive, and there are many career opportunities within the legal profession that focus on the business arena. With a wide range of courses, Legal Studies covers subjects such as commercial law, law for the small business, employment law, entertainment law and Internet legal issues, all of which are important for any business.

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