College of Business
Organizational Management
What is Management?
The skills and concepts taught in organization management are used in businesses and nonprofit organizations of every size. Management consists of the skills and practices involved in planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. In addition to the management of an entire firm, managers often specialize in human resource management, operations management, or small business management/entrepreneurship.
What can you do with a degree in management?
Human resource managers oversee the hiring, training, and benefits management of a company’s employees. Operations managers manage the activities and equipment used to manufacture or provide services for customers. Entrepreneurship involves starting a new business venture. It includes the development of a business plan and consideration of the nuts-and-bolts details of financing and managing a new firm.
Because most successful individuals will find themselves, at some stage of their careers, responsible for leading others and for coming up with and executing strategy, organization management is truly a major that can not be wasted because management is everywhere!
What is special about SAU’s management program?
In addition to preparing students for careers in human resource management, operations management, and entrepreneurship, SAU’s program equips them with communication skills and a conceptual knowledge of international business. Students can “build their own degrees” by selecting from courses in areas like retirement planning, insurance, industrial/organizational psychology, and supply chain management depending on their career goals. They also have the option to taking an international field trip rather than studying international business strictly in a classroom setting. Students who meet the grade point average requirement (2.5 and above) may elect to participate in a semester-long internship program in which they work for an actual firm. SAU’s management graduates have taken jobs in retailing, banking, healthcare administration, and a variety of other fields. Some have started their own businesses. Salaries range from the subsistence living earned by the smallest of entrepreneurial ventures to the executive salaries paid by the largest of global corporations.
Modified: November 21, 2008 at 12:48 pm
