Master of Business Administration: Management
Master of Business Administration: Management
Management Concentration in Rowan's MBA
Why an MBA Concentration in Management?
Students who want to evolve their organizational, logistical, and analytical aptitude and increase their communication skills should consider a Concentration in Management.
The need for exemplary and experienced managers who can adeptly optimize resources, systems, processes, and labor is ubiquitous across sectors—health care, government, nonprofit, corporate, the service industry, and more.
Good management is the key to any organization’s success, and joining a Management Concentration to another area of expertise makes for a powerful combination whose reward is most often a high-paying position in which the manager makes a vital difference—to the organization’s success as well as to the daily lives of its many employees.
Quality managers are needed in every industry. Some industries of interest managers are needed in are:
- technology
- retail and fashion;
- art and entertainment;
- sports entertainment;
- construction and design;
- health care administration;
- food and hospitality; and
- client-facing sales.
Long-term career goals for managers include leadership roles such as:
- director;
- department head;
- chairperson; and
- executive-level positions, such as CEO.
Management experience combined with an advanced degree can lead to publishing deals, teaching, speaking, and consulting opportunities, and starting your own business fully prepared for success.
MBA Curriculum Requirements and Options
Core, Customizable, and Foundational Course Requirements
Rowan MBA students complete 18 credits of required coursework to satisfy the core requirements of the 36-credit curriculum. The core requirements can be completed in an individualized order, depending on the student’s needs.
Rowan MBA students also enjoy the freedom to customize the remaining 18 credits (6 three-credit courses) to meet their individual career pursuits. The 18 customizable credits (6 courses) can be arranged to include two areas of concentration or one area of concentration plus three elective courses.
Some foundational coursework may be required, which can be done in a variety of ways, such as equivalent undergraduate courses, noncredit tests, online courses, and community college classes. To see a full list of admission requirements, visit the Rowan Global MBA website page and click Admission Requirements or review our foundation fact sheet. Contact our program coordinator at graduatebusinessstudies@rowan.edu for pre-admission academic advising if you’d like help planning your pathway.
How do Specialized Concentrations Work?
Rowan MBA students can choose two related Concentrations to build significant depth, two distinct Concentrations to build breadth, or even choose one Concentration and three elective courses across disciplines to gain a wide view from varying perspectives.
Management Concentration Coursework
Gain the insights, knowledge, and skills necessary for planning, supervising, and making decisions for organizations of all types. Learn responsible decision-making, strategic planning, organizational interrelationships, process analysis, predictive analytics, global leadership, and organizational culture.
Rowan MBA students select 3 courses, or 9 credits, from the courses below to build the specialized Management Concentration of their choice.
Students who choose the Management Certificate of Graduate Study (COGS) complete the same set of courses. The COGS in Finance is a stackable credential that can be applied toward earning an MBA with a Finance Concentration in the future.
MBA Students have the potential to take more than three classes from the list below, depending on their interests and goals and the flexibility and space available in their individual course of study. Contact an academic advisor from the Graduate Business Studies office at graduatebusinessstudies@rowan.edu if interested in adding any of these classes to your course schedule.
Click on the course titles to review the descriptions.
Coursework—Course Codes, Titles and Descriptions
ENT 06505 - Entrepreneurship and Innovation
ENT 06505 - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (3 credits)
- 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 nonprofit sector.
ENT 06506 - Corporate Entrepreneurship
ENT 06506 - Corporate Entrepreneurship (3 credits)
- This course provides an overview of the potential for innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities or new ventures within a corporate environment. The course covers various aspects of corporate entrepreneurship. Major topics include understanding the corporate entrepreneurial revolution, learning about the nature of entrepreneurship within established organizations (intrapreneurship), understanding the requirements for setting up an environment conducive to being intrapreneurial within a corporate setting, and learning about the entrepreneurial direction of firms as they grow and evolve. Among the issues discussed are the role of creativity within corporate entrepreneurship, the relation to product innovation and technology, the importance of corporate strategy within an entrepreneurial framework, and what it takes to create an entrepreneurial culture in a corporate setting.
HRM 06605 - Strategic Human Resource Management
HRM 06605 - Strategic Human Resource Management (3 credits)
- 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 01510 - Professional, Legal and Managerial Responsibilities
MGT 01510 - Professional, Legal and Managerial Responsibilities (3 credits)
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In that business leaders have become personally and professionally responsible for the legal and ethical behaviors of the individuals within their organizations, the need for formal training in ethical and legal decision making is essential. In this course students will learn how to effectively apply a variety of legal and ethical frameworks within the global marketplace. Students will also learn appropriate and effective legal and ethical issue reporting practices, principles and responsibilities.
MGT 06501 - Advanced Operations Management and Strategy
MGT 06501 - Advanced Operations Management and Strategy (3 credits)
- This course is designed to familiarize students with the complexities of operating a manufacturing company or service organization. The focus is primarily on gaining a competitive edge by improving functions of operations management. Concepts and tools pertaining to business forecasting, operations decision-making, resources allocation, location and capacity planning, inventory control and management, facility layouts, scheduling, project management, and quality control and management will be covered. Case studies and team projects will also be used to provide practical applications in a realistic business context.
MGT 06502 - International Business and Society
MGT 06502 - International Business and Society (3 credits)
- 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
MGT 06503 - Organization Development (3 credits)
- 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. This course may not be offered annually.
MGT 06520 - Global Leadership and Organization Culture
MGT 06520 - Global Leadership and Organization Culture (3 credits)
- This 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 and 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 an organization’s 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 to improve individual and organizational performance.
MGT 06599 - Special Topics in Management
MGT 06599 - Special Topics in Management (3 credits)
- Students will study advanced level topics in management. The exact topics to be covered will change over time. Contact the MBA office or Management and MIS Department for details.
MGT 06601 - Strategic Planning for Operating Managers
MGT 06601 - Strategic Planning for Operating Managers (3 credits)
- This course prepares the operating manager for the responsibilities of 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 proactive management posture with respect to environmental forces will be stressed. This course may not be offered annually.
MGT 06603 - Process Analytics
MGT 06603 - Process Analytics (3 credits)
- 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.
MGT 07510 - Quality Analytics
MGT 07510 - Quality Analytics (3 credits)
- This course builds a thorough understanding of how our processes and products can be continually improved through organization-wide quality management. The course will cover customers, outputs, processes, inputs, stake and stock holders, and decision-making functions as they relate to enhancing the vitality of organizations to make them customer focused. The focus is on developing and implementing "soft" and "hard" tools to deliver the "best net value" to customers. In this course, students will investigate the aspects of forming organizational alliances and consensus thinking; deriving functional synergies; using quality analytics such as Six Sigma, Design of Experiment, Control Charts, etc.; developing customer orientation, facilitating teamwork, and getting a real-world perspective.
Explore More Concentration Options
Students in the MBA program can choose two Concentrations or one Concentration plus three electives. Students also choose their electives from the courses listed in the Concentrations.
To explore other Concentrations in the MBA program, review examples of Concentration combinations, or learn more about courses, click below.
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