Management

Careers in management vary across a wide spectrum of diverse, yet related, fields.  Crosby MBA graduates often work in:

• General management 
• Consulting
• Human resources
• Operations management and quality control
• Information systems
• Organizational development and change

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Preparation for a career in management might follow one or more of these paths:

• Managing people and their work environments - includes course work such as organizational behavior and management, strategic human resource management, current issues in human resource management, negotiations, and organization theory and design. Strategic management and entrepreneurship – creating and directing entrepreneurial ventures and the capstone course in business environment and policy.
• Managing information systems and operations - introduction to MIS, database management, decision support systems, information resource management, Web development, business-applications development, e-commerce, business telecommunications, and production/operations management. Management

• BA 7330 Business Law* (2)  Legal aspects of employment, administrative regulation, corporate and non-corporate ownership structures, and legal issues involving business transactions.
• BA 7340 Organizational Ethics* (1)  Case studies, discussion and reading used to integrate critical thinking about ethical issues into business decisions.  Development and application of ethical decision-making frameworks.
• Mangmt 7380 Org Behavior & Mgmt: The Individual* (1.5)  An examination of factors influencing behavior in organizations.  An analysis of research, theory, and current practices dealing with managing people in work organizations.  Focus on the individual within the organizational context.
• Mangmt 7390 Org Behavior & Mgmt: Macro Processes* (1.5)  An examination of factors influencing behavior in organizations.  An analysis of research, theory, and current practices dealing with managing people in work organizations.  Focus on dyadic, group and system-wide processes.
• Mangmt 8970 Business Environment and Strategy - Capstone (3)  Investigates alternative goals of business enterprises relative to internal resources and external environment; development and implementation of policies and strategies to achieve objectives.  Cases, computer simulations, and/or field research many supplement published materials.

• 8001 Topics in Management Selected current topics in management. Recent topics have included Applying a Systems Approach to Business Problems, Utilizing the Best of Popular Business Literature, Entrepreneurship and Media of the Future, and Corporate Governance.
• 8100 Exploring the Digital Globe Impacts of technological change and globalization are explored from the perspective of business, law and journalism.  The first course required for the "CDiG certificate."  Issues involving electronic commerce, digitization and globalization will be analyzed through online and in-class projects, class discussion and guest lectures. 
  
• 8330 Current Issues in Human Resource Management E xploration of current trends, issues, and controversies involving the managing of human resources in organizations, with an emphasis on how human resources can provide competitive advantage. Considers multiple perspectives, including that of employers, employees, and other stakeholders.  
• 8335 Human Resource Law The study of best HR practices from a legal point of view, including avoiding employer liability related to recruiting, interviewing, hiring, classifying, supervising and terminating employees.
• 8340 Organizational Design Principles of effective organizational design contingent upon contextual factors such as an organization's size, technology, and environment; dimensions of organizational structure; overall forms of organizational design.
• 8345 Organizational Culture Concept of culture in an organizational context; models of organizational culture; culture's relationships with individual behavior, organizational effectiveness, and organizational changed, especially change related to strategy implementation and to mergers and acquisitions.
• 8360 Negotiations A structured overview of negotiations; includes the development of improved negotiation skills. Topics include power, distributive negotiations, integrative negotiations, maneuvers, tactics, strategies, conflict, complex negotiations, mediation, and negotiation ethics.
• 8370 Managerial Leadership An examination of the historical conceptions, definitions, theories, and research findings in the managerial leadership literature.  The application of this literature to the development of analytical and leadership skill s.
• 8400 Management Science Modeling Application of management science modeling procedures to organizational decision making.  Topics include mathematical programming, queuing, and network models.  Stresses managerial point of view with analysis of problems and interpretation of computer solutions.
• 8410 Decision Making and Risk Managerial approaches to decision making under risk and uncertainty with emphasis on decision analysis, spreadsheet simulation, and computer solutions via other management science models.  Discussion of rational and behavioral decision making and procedures for assessing risk and uncertainty.
  
• 8420 Decision Support Systems An examination of the role of Decision Support Systems (DSS) in organizations from both a theoretical and applied viewpoint. The components of the database, model base and the user system interface are applied in the context of both the mainframe and microcomputer.
• 8510 Project Management An advanced introduction to methods and techniques for managing projects, with selective attention to human resource issues as required.  Includes project breakdown analysis, task network scheduling, resource allocation, and assessment/evaluation of project performance.
• 8540 Entrepreneurial Ventures: Creation & Management of High Growth Firms Analysis of management challenges facing entrepreneurial startups and alternative strategic responses to those challenges. Views issues from multiple functional perspectives to design cross-functional solutions to entrepreneurial problems.
• 8550 Launching a High-Growth Venture An experiential learning course using a business plan competition to simulate planning and securing capital for high-growth ventures.  Participants with management, marketing or finance interests learn skills for preparing and presenting business plans to investors.
• 8560 Legal Strategies for Entrepreneurs Th e study of how legal decisions affect a business organization in various transitional states of development, from start up to going public.  Designed for both MBA and Law students, who work together planning legal transitions of a busines s.

The management faculty  have a strong commitment to teaching and have received many teaching and advising awards. They are also active in research, book authorship and other scholarly work which not only makes scientific contributions, but also contributes to the richness and timeliness of Crosby MBA course offerings.

Recently published work includes a diverse set of topics such as

• time-and-organization studies
  
• entrepreneurship, organization and process theory, and their intersection
• mentoring and networking processes and their role in employee career success
• information systems implementation, user involvement in systems design, and evaluating the planning and impact of project management in organizations
• decision making processes, analysis of decision characteristics as predictors of decision outcomes and the application of modeling for improved decision making
• corporate governance and employment law issues
• issues and crisis management, corporate social and stakeholder performance, financial performance, organizational attractiveness to prospective employees
  
• leadership and managerial decision-making
• the economics of innovation, with a particular focus on the interactions between for-profit companies and academic researchers/universities
• IPOs and strategy and governance changes in the pre- and post-IPO firm, international diversification and corporate social performance
• strategic management, entrepreneurship, and innovation
• cross-cultural and international management, organizational culture, human resources management, and groups and teams
• white collar crime, boards of directors and institutional owners
• applied artificial intelligence, decision support systems, muticriteria decision making, applied statistics, and time series analysis
• organizational governance, minority directors and top managers and entrepreneurship within existing organizations
• mentoring processes, employment interviews, recruitment process, organizational choice, and supervisor-subordinate relationships
• dynamic bargaining processes, conflict resolution, and mediation