Master of Business Administration: Management
Master of Business Administration: Management
Management Concentration in Rowan's MBA
Why an MBA Concentration in Management?
Management becomes especially consequential when organizations must turn competing priorities, limited resources, and imperfect information into coordinated action. Decisions about staffing, growth, process improvement, change, innovation, and performance frequently cut across functions and require judgment about how people, structures, and resources interact. Management provides an integrative way to understand those relationships, diagnose what is getting in the way, and organize an effective response.
Management reaches across organizational development, leadership, human resources, analytics, entrepreneurship, international business, and the coordination of work across functions. Managers may need to diagnose performance problems, support change, evaluate new opportunities, develop people, interpret evidence, and understand how organizational structure or culture affects execution. The field is inherently integrative because many business problems do not stay inside one functional boundary. Decisions about growth, staffing, operations, innovation, or performance often require an understanding of how different parts of the organization influence one another.
The Management Concentration is intentionally flexible, reflecting the breadth of the field. Depending on the courses selected, students can develop greater depth in leadership, organizational development, analytics, human resources, entrepreneurship, international business, or other management topics represented in the approved course bank. That flexibility makes the concentration especially useful for students who want a cross-functional area of depth within the MBA while retaining the ability to emphasize the management questions most relevant to their work.
Concentration Details
Requirement: 9 credits; select 9 credits from approved Management course options.
The elective structure allows students to shape the concentration around the mix of management issues most relevant to their work, drawing from areas that include strategy, leadership, organizational development, analytics, human resources, entrepreneurship, and international business.
Concentration courses may also be taken as graduate business electives when students satisfy any listed Foundations and prerequisites.
*STEM-designated course. For degree-level requirements, see the STEM MBA.
Course Details
ENT 06505 - Entrepreneurship and Innovation
This course provides a broad framework for understanding the nature of entrepreneurship in multiple organizational settings. The course introduces students to the innovation and idea generation process and helps students apply an alternative way of “thinking” to assist in solving difficult issues for government, business, and the non-profit sector.
Prerequisites: ACC 03500 with a minimum grade of C and MGT 06502 with a minimum grade of C and MKT 09500 with a minimum grade of C
HRM 06605 - Strategic Human Resource Management
Strategic Human Resource Management consists of planned organizational activities designed to increase organizational effectiveness and equity. This course outlines the transformation of HRM from a clerical function to an important strategic partner of top management. It focuses on the ability of HRM to provide a source of competitive advantage to forward-thinking organizations.
MGT 06500 – Designing, Developing, and Leading High Performance Organizations
Students will study and develop skills in interpersonal behavior in organizations and groups. They will learn about issues in leadership, how groups function, elements of power and influence, conflict management, management of time and stress, creative and rational problem solving in groups. In addition, they will study theories of motivation and methods of empowerment in organizations.
MGT 06502 - International Business and Society
This course addresses numerous aspects of the increasingly global business environment and implications for business organizations and key stakeholders. Frameworks for comparing political, legal, social, economic, and governmental differences across nations are utilized. Macro issues include trade theories, trade regimes, roles of governments and global institutions. Strategies and structures adopted by various types of international firms and functional approaches to international finance, management, and marketing are also included.
MGT 06503 – Organization Development
Students study the application of behavioral science in the management of planned organizational change and development. In addition to the analysis of issues facing the change agent, students also develop skills in implementing and intervening in the effort to improve organizational effectiveness.
Prerequisites: MGT 06500 Designing, Developing, and Leading High Performance Organizations or MGT 06515 Employee Engagement and Performance.
MGT 06520 – Global Leadership and Organization Culture
The course is designed for graduate business students. Course content will cover the theories of business leadership and the focus of this course will be on leadership from a variety of perspectives–organizational leadership in the external environment, as well as leadership at the top, middle and lower levels inside organizations. Students will focus on the theory and implementation of various business leadership tasks and responsibilities including working with other leaders in a multinational world, supervising workers with diverse backgrounds. These business skills will include establishing workplace goals, organizing work units for productivity, conducting interviews, giving feedback to subordinate employees, designing and implementing employee motivation programs, changing organization culture, the capacity to lead globally, leading work teams and managing workforce diversity. By the end of the course, students will be able to effectively diagnose the complex dynamics of leadership in business environments and take action as leaders and to improve individual and organization performance.
MGT 06601 - Strategic Planning for Operating Managers
This course prepares the operating manager for the responsibilities of performing strategic planning. The course will identify what goes into and how strategic planning is performed. Strategy formation and evaluation will be assisted by computer decision models and management games. The interrelationships of organizational units and pro-active management posture with respect to environmental forces will be stressed. This course may not be offered annually.
Foundations: Calculus, Operations Management, Statistics.
MGT 06603 – Process Analytics (STEM*)
This course introduces the fundamental Lean Six Sigma principles that underlay modern continuous improvement approaches for industry, government and other organizations. Process analytics introduces a different domain of quantitative analytics in understanding, improving, and creating processes, and it is critical for managers and business professionals to use the knowledge and tools to create competitive advantage. This course covers fundamental and applied knowledge on process analytics - including process data acquisition, analysis, matching and models in modern process analytics.
Foundations: Calculus, Operations Management, Statistics.
MGT 07600 – Predictive Analytics (STEM*)
This course is designed to acquaint the graduate student with the advanced statistical forecasting techniques. Upon completion of the course, the student should be able to identify a forecasting problem, gather data and use computerized statistical packages to obtain solutions, analyze results, determine the validity and reliability of the model, and if necessary, recommend alternative methods to solve the model. This course may not be offered annually.
Foundations: Calculus, Operations Management, Statistics.
ENT 06599 – Special Topics in Entrepreneurship (0–6 credits)
Students will study advanced level topics in Entrepreneurship. The exact topics will change over time to remain relevant as practices in industry and markets evolve. Contact the MBA office for additional details.
BUS 01600 – Special Topics in Business Administration (3–6 credits)
Students will study advanced level topics in specific disciplines as identified through participation in in-depth seminars on topics to be determined by faculty in consultation with the Graduate Committee of the College of Business. Students will complete research or projects on specialized topics in various disciplines in Business Administration. Students may take each topic only once. This course may not be offered annually.
Connections to Management and Organizational Leadership Study
Management is intentionally broad, and that breadth can connect with more focused graduate study in leadership and organizations. RCB offers related but distinct ways to pursue those interests, including:
Management Certificate of Graduate Study
The Management COGS provides focused graduate management study before entry into a full graduate degree. All completed COGS credits can apply to the MBA, although where they apply depends on the courses selected.
MS in Organizational Leadership
The MS in Organizational Leadership places leadership and organizational dynamics at the center of the degree, while the MBA Management Concentration maintains a broader cross-functional management orientation.
MBA/MS Organizational Leadership Accelerated Pathway
The MBA/MSOL Accelerated Pathway connects broader MBA study with more concentrated work in leadership and organizations. Students interested in both degrees can review the pathway for current shared-course and planning requirements.
