Objectives

Management is planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the activities necessary to successfully run an organization. In studying management, the student will focus on the practical skills, ethical issues, and management theory necessary to succeed in our diverse global economy. The Department offers, essentially, two types of courses: general knowledge courses and specialized courses. General knowledge courses are required of all business majors. Elective courses are chosen by majors who wish to gain specialized instruction in specific areas of management.

Learning Outcomes

The Bachelor of Business Administration—Management Major at LMU will provide undergraduate students with the fundamental theories, problem-solving tools, and current real-world information and actual learning experience necessary to support their entry and ongoing career success as ethical and socially responsible leaders, managers, and supervisors in various organizations, and in particular in their future roles as either HR professionals or everyday practitioners in managing people in the workplace (i.e., administrators, managers, and supervisors). All Management Major students will demonstrate acceptable understanding and skills in:

1. Interpersonal/team effectiveness
2. Communications
3. Key processes of planning/goal setting, decision making, problem solving
4. Critical HR functional areas
5. Career management

Upon completion of requirements for this major,

• students should understand and be able to explain and evaluate the critical role and functions of management in organizations and apply principal concepts and models in the field of management within an organization;
• students should understand and be able to describe and explain how the human resource function in an organization contributes to overall productivity through its component activities;
• students should understand be able to apply concepts of career planning and management both generally and to their own career.

Major Requirements

Management Major Tracks

This major will have two advanced tracks beyond the business core courses to allow the students a choice in more general courses in organizational behavior (OB) to build general management and leadership competencies, or more advanced human resource management (HRM) courses in preparation for careers as human resource (HR) professionals.

To complete the Management Major, students will complete all LMU and CBA core requirements, plus the required MGMT 3620 Management Skills  course, one international management elective, and 3 advanced courses in either the OB or HR Professional track (5 courses overall).

Model 4-Year Plan—Bachelor of Business Administration— Management Major Curriculum

The following curriculum represents the order or sequence in which it is expected that students will take the various courses required for the B.B.A. (Management major) degree. All requirements for Management majors with different tracks through the first semester of junior year are identical regardless of student’s chosen track. Management majors with different tracks will be expected to follow the track requirements when selecting classes for their major.