B.S. - Business Management

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Program Overview
The Business Management major prepares students to be highly competitive in management positions in the global economy. The curriculum is designed to make students flexible, adaptable, and successful in pursuing careers in management by stressing three key components. 

1. Business Sense – by learning the cross functional environment in which businesses operate.
2. Critical Skills -  in the important business functions of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling, but in other areas as well, such as:  interpersonal communication, teamwork, critical thinking, and change management.
3. Emphasizing contemporary business issues - through core and elective courses that promote a solid foundation in both theory and practice of effective and efficient management principles, organizational change and development practices, and the theory and practice of effectively addressing social, ethical, and moral issues when evaluating and formulating business decisions, and business strategy and policy.

Concentrations
Students in the Business Management major may complete a generalized program, or may elect one of four concentrations within the major, with specific focuses as described below.

Human Resource Management (HRM) - Students completing the major with a concentration in HRM will be able to discuss and evaluate various HRM functions such as:

• Recruitment, retention, selection, training and development, compensation, the legal aspects of human resource management and performance management.

Management Information Systems (MIS) - Students completing the major with a concentration in MIS will be able to discuss and evaluate various MIS functions such as:

• Software and hardware development and selection, effectively working with information technology projects, management of technology resources, a systems perspective for integrating the computer within information management systems and business knowledge, skills and analytical techniques.

Marketing (MKT) - Students completing the major with a concentration in MKT will be able to discuss and evaluate various MKT functions such as:

• Knowledge, skills, and concepts necessary for effective performance in various functional areas of marketing (e.g., product development and marketing management), global marketing research and analytical skill development; marketing strategy issues across national and international boundaries; and the decision-making process used to generate market research information.

Hospitality Management (HPM) - Students completing the major with a concentration in HPM will be able to discuss and evaluate various HPM functions such as:

• Legal issues, financial management and controls, knowledge, skills and concepts necessary for effective management in the hospitality industry including: financial management and controls, legal issues and contemporary management issues specific to the industry.

Upon completion of the B.S. with a major in Business Management, students will be able to:

• Analyze leadership and management practices in organizations.
• Assess and evaluate effective management and leadership behaviors and their resultant ethical and social implications in professional practice.
• Demonstrate financial planning concepts and skills.
• Evaluate ethical and social implications in personal and professional organizational situations and practices.
• Advocate consistent organizational values by describing and bringing together a group of complex values, resolving conflicts between them, and building an internally consistent value system.
• Articulate how organizational policy and strategy impacts the local and global community.

Accelerated degree completion

• Earning eight (8) credits in eight (8) weeks
• Transferring credits from other regionally accredited colleges and universities
• Requesting credit for knowledge gained outside the classroom through work or professional experience
• Successfully completing CLEP or DANTES tests
• Participating in certified learning