Program Coordinator
Professor Richard Lowery
Email: rlowery@Bowiestate.edu
Phone: 301-860-3634

Program Overview

The concentration in management is designed to provide students an understanding of management and its roles, tasks, and practices. Emphasis is placed on:

1. Leadership and the impact of leadership style on organizational efforts.
2. Proper application of the constantly evolving set of concepts and principles governing organizational effort with regard to people, functions, systems, and processes.
3. The art and science of analysis and decision-making.

Students may select from three different tracks in this concentration to suit their personal and career interests:

1. General Management
2. Staffing and Industrial Relations
3. Small Business/Entrepreneurship

Professional careers, from management trainee and entry level through middle management, may be pursued in the private or public sectors as well as in not-for-profit organizations.

Program Objective

Managers are responsible for achieving organizational objectives by coordinating resources, methods, materials, machines, systems, and most importantly, the efforts of people.

Managers set objectives, establish policies, plan, organize, direct, communicate, and make decisions. Since their principal concern is solving problems in pursuit of opportunity, they continually define problems and seek solutions.

To be an effective manager, an individual needs a broad knowledge of the practices of management, the workings of business, organizations, and the economy, and the behavior of people. The knowledge obtained in the BS degree program at Bowie State University should qualify the student for a broad range of managerial positions in business organizations. The Bowie State University management concentration offers the unique feature of synthesizing functional areas, skills, practices, and settings.

Program Learning Goals

1.1 Demonstrate ability to effectively articulate specific management issues in writing

1.2 Demonstrate ability to formulate well-written arguments that state assumptions, reasoning, and logic that are supported by evidence

1.3 Demonstrate ability to do written critiques of management literature

2.1 Demonstrate ability to effectively articulate specific managerial/organizational issue orally

2.2 Demonstrate ability to effect an oral presentation of an issue that clearly indicates assumptions and reasoning that are supported by evidence

3.1 Demonstrate ability to apply management business analysis to evaluate specific managerial decision.

3.2 Demonstrate ability to apply appropriate quantitative and qualitative analysis to propose solutions to key issues facing the business enterprise.

4.1 1Demonstrate awareness of current global business issues

4.2 Demonstrate awareness of cultural diversity between and within countries

5.1 Demonstrate ability to use quantitative analysis in areas of business operations

5.2 Demonstrate ability to apply quantitative analysis to as specific business problem
  

Departmental Requirements

General Management Track

Industrial Relations and Staffing Track

Small Business Track

**Calculus and computer language courses may be used as School of Business electives.