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Management Minor

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  • Program Type: Undergraduate minor related to major
  • Requirements for this program are current for Spring 2024
  • Required credits in this minor: 18
A minor in management introduces students to current business theories and practices and provides a basic business knowledge foundation. It also gives students interested in business more marketability in all types of professions, from agriculture and natural sciences to information technology. Students who earn a management minor will: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of the management roles of planning, leading, organizing, and controlling; 2. Demonstrate analytical and critical-thinking skills with direct application to management; 3. Demonstrate the ability to communicate clearly and concisely in personal and business communication; 4. Demonstrate capability to effectively manage human relations and diversity in professional and business environments; 5. Demonstrate skill in the use of technology and computer applications in business and industry; 6. Demonstrate capability to apply ethical and environmental values to business management principles and practices.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
  • completely online (all program coursework can be completed online)
  • primarily online (at least 80% of the instruction for the program is online with short, intensive periods of face-to-face coursework)
  • partially online (between 50% to 80% of instruction is online)
Minor Requirements
Management Core
Take exactly 4 course(s) totaling exactly 12 credit(s) from the following:
· GBUS 3500 - Business Ethics (3.0 cr)
· MGMT 3200 - Principles of Management (3.0 cr)
· MGMT 3210 - Supervision and Leadership (3.0 cr)
· MGMT 3215 - Organizational Behavior (3.0 cr)
Management Electives
Take exactly 2 course(s) totaling exactly 6 credit(s) from the following:
· GBUS 3300 - Business Analytics (3.0 cr)
· IBUS 3500 - International Business Management (3.0 cr)
· MGMT 3220 - Human Resource Management (3.0 cr)
· MGMT 3250 - Operations Management (3.0 cr)
· MGMT 3255 - Logistics and Supply Chain Management (3.0 cr)
· MGMT 3600 - Change, Creativity, and Innovation Management (3.0 cr)
· MGMT 4200 - Project Management (3.0 cr)
Program Sub-plans
A sub-plan is not required for this program.
Online
The management minor online has the same curriculum as the on-campus management minor. The management minor introduces students to current business theories and practices and provides a basic business knowledge foundation. It also gives students interested in business more marketability in all types of professions, from agriculture and natural sciences to information technology. Students who earn a management minor will: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of the management roles of planning, leading, organizing, and controlling; 2. Demonstrate analytical and critical-thinking skills with direct application to management; 3. Demonstrate the ability to communicate clearly and concisely in personal and business communication; 4. Demonstrate capability to effectively manage human relations and diversity in professional and business environments; 5. Demonstrate skill in the use of technology and computer applications in business and industry; 6. Demonstrate capability to apply ethical and environmental values to business management principles and practices.
  
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GBUS 3500 - Business Ethics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Ethics as a compelling responsibility of today's business organizations. Moral principles/models for ethical decision making. Challenges of ethical business practices. Recommended prereq: Mgmt 3200 and Mktg 3300 or instructor consent Enforced prereq: Comp 1013
MGMT 3200 - Principles of Management
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Terminology, theories, concepts, and skills of managing. Basic functions of managing including, planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Additional topics include decision making, business ethics, and social responsibility.
MGMT 3210 - Supervision and Leadership
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Emphasis on organizational environment/human behavior. Human resource systems, motivating employees, leadership, managing change, job satisfaction, communication, group processes, interpersonal/group dynamics within organization.
MGMT 3215 - Organizational Behavior
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Foundational understanding of people at work. Organizational behavior/business cultures. Social sciences of psychology, sociology, anthropology at work in organization. Address topics of organizational design, work relationships, leadership, communications, motivation/team building. prereq: 3200
GBUS 3300 - Business Analytics
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
Concepts, procedures, and technologies used by managers, administrators, and employees to enhance operation of an organization. Use of data mining and analysis to improve decision strategies. prereq: MATH 1150
IBUS 3500 - International Business Management
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Principles, opportunities, challenges of managing international business. Basic managerial functions. Economic, social, political environment. prereq: MGMT 3200
MGMT 3220 - Human Resource Management
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Management of people at work. Recruitment, selection, training, compensation, evaluation. Changing nature of world of work, labor market, labor relations, emerging legal issues, discrimination in pay and employment, effects of technological change on jobs/employment performance. prereq: Mgmt 3200
MGMT 3250 - Operations Management
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Introduction to operations management concepts to transform inputs such as materials, labor, capital and management into outputs that satisfy customer demand. The course focuses on analytical techniques and critical thinking to enhance decision making and operations management excellence. prereq: [MGMT 3200, MATH 1150] or instructor consent
MGMT 3255 - Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Examines supply chain management as a means of creating strategic competitive advantages. Logistical efficiency with environmental factors, strategic positioning, laws and policies, and cost maintenance will be examined.
MGMT 3600 - Change, Creativity, and Innovation Management
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall
The comprehensive study of organizing, planning, and evaluating innovation efforts in a dynamic business environment. Examination of ways to foster creativity and manage change in innovative organizations. prereq: [3200, MKTG 3300] or instructor consent
MGMT 4200 - Project Management
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Spring
Foundations of project management. Working with teams, schedules, risks, and resources to produce a desired outcome. Skills and tools of project management with case studies and using appropriate software to facilitate learning.