Managers make things happen! They allocate resources, empower their employees, develop skills in others, and lead the organization. They make things happen by asking questions, encouraging critical thinking, and motivating the team to discover solutions. The best managers are leaders who manage resources and challenge others to achieve and grow.
MTSU alumnus Petar Skobic, Management major, connected with ALDI stores at a career fair and started work as a district manager. After stints in Murfreesboro and Birmingham, Ala., he relocated to New York. “I had a great experience at MTSU and wouldn't have traded my professors with anyone,” he says.
The Department of Management is a leader in the Jones College of Business IGNITE Career Development Program. Department faculty and business leaders provide career planning programs for students throughout the academic year. Every spring, the Business Exchange for Student Talent (BEST) career fair hosts area employers who meet with students majoring in the Jones College of Business. These programs allow students to ask questions, explore career paths, and form mentorships.
The Management and Leadership program at MTSU provides the foundation for students to successfully pursue many different career paths in leadership, administrative management, and human resource management. Examples include
The Department of Management offers the Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) degree with majors in Management and Leadership, Management-Supply Chain Management and also Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Business Administration.
For complete curriculum details, click on the REQUIREMENTS icon to the right.
Undergraduate minors are available in Management, Entrepreneurship, and Leadership Studies, and the department participates in the interdisciplinary minor in Business Administration.
The Department of Management offers a Master of Science (M.S.) degree with a major in Management; students may choose from two concentrations: Organizational Leadership or Supply Chain Management.
Graduate students may also earn the Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), an interdisciplinary degree.
A Graduate Certificate in Health Care Management also is available.
Our adjunct faculty bring outstanding professional experience to our programs. Many are industry leaders with decorated careers and honors. Importantly, they are innovative educators who offer hands-on learning to our students to prepare them to enter and thrive in a dynamic, and oftentimes emerging, industry and professional world. They inspire, instruct, and challenge our students toward academic and professional success.
Only for students with fewer than 30 hours or first-semester transfer students. Designed as an elective for first-year declared management majors and others interested in the management major. Introduces course requirements for a major in management, options for management electives, diverse subfields, and career options.
(Same as ENTR 3600.) Prerequisite: Admission to the College of Business; junior standing.Focuses on innovation and entrepreneurial endeavors in corporate environments as well as in new ventures. Specific attention is given to the creative process, innovative thinking, sources of opportunity, design-thinking, team-based innovation, commercialization, intellectual property, and innovation plans in the entrepreneurial setting.
Prerequisite: Junior standing. Concepts of the management functions of planning, organizing, and controlling with an emphasis on behavioral science concepts as applied to managing people in organizations.
Prerequisite: Junior standing. Focuses on the integration between supply chain operations strategies/decisions and their impact on other business functions in an organization. Examines operations management concepts using a global supply chain perspective. Covers topics such as inventory management, lean/just in time, project management, and supply-demand matching. Overarching goal of using supply chain operations strategies to develop a business competitive advantage reinforced. This is a writing-intensive course.
Prerequisites: BIA 2610 or MATH 1530; junior standing; and admission to the College of Business. Focuses on development and use of common Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) as a method to monitor and manage business performance. Spreadsheet software will be utilized to analyze, summarize, and present management metrics. Management metrics covered includes financial, customer, employee, and operational and supply chain perspectives.
Prerequisites: Admission to Jones College of Business; junior standing. Applies Baldrige Performance Excellence criteria and Lean Six Sigma DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, and control) methodology to business process improvements. Examines how continuous improvement projects follow a structured sequence using DMAIC. Emphasis on established critical thinking models to drive continuous improvement and guide specific problem-solving efforts.
Prerequisites: Admission to the Jones College of Business; junior standing. Benchmark practices of developing and managing international supply chains. Choosing, developing, evaluating, and managing a mixed portfolio of domestic and international procurement including such considerations as political, economic, legal, ethical, cultural, and communication issues associated with a global supply chain. Industry trends in global sourcing locations, approaches, and technologies for both product and service supply chains.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3620, junior standing, and admission to the Jones College of Business. Focuses on concepts and techniques required to manage the distribution function in a contemporary supply chain. Emphasis on the role of distribution within a supply chain and best practices leading to efficient operational performance.
Prerequisites: Admission to Jones College of Business; junior standing. Theory and practice of managing projects for services, products, or events. Emphasis on application of lean concepts to project management.
Prerequisite: Junior level; MGMT 3620; and admission to the Jones College of Business. Technologies for products and services, learning from failure, idea generation/screening, management structures that promote innovation, as well as cost justification of new technologies. Examines the management of the process of forecasting, acquiring, and integrating emerging technologies into the firm's products/services and processes. Typical innovation areas include rapid prototyping/small lot production, last mile delivery, distribution, safety and productivity, entertainment/training, and medical. Course structure may vary.
Prerequisites: Junior standing; admission to the College of Business. Design, operations, and control of global and local supply chains; implementation approaches including behavioral (especially cross-functional) and technical issues and the Plan-Source-Make-Deliver-Return model for supply chains.
Prerequisites: Junior standing; admission to the Jones College of Business. Examines contemporary thought on managerial roles in identifying, fostering, and implementing change in complex environments. Study of current developments in leading groups through change and managing conflict in organizations by use of competencies related to negotiation and mediation.
Prerequisites: Junior standing and admission to the College of Business. An introduction to the management of human resources, including strategic human resource management, diversity and inclusion, employment law, talent acquisition and management, compensation, training and development, employee and labor relations, performance management, and health/safety/security.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3610; admission to the Jones College of Business. Designed for students to learn how to build teams, improve teamwork and collaboration in those teams, and effectively lead those teams to accomplish organizational goals and enhance performance.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3610; admission to the College of Business; junior standing. Investigates the decision-making processes of business professionals to gain an understanding of how decisions are made. Emphasis on creative problem solving, critical thinking, problem formulation, and decision analysis.
Prerequisites: Junior standing and admission to the College of Business. Focuses on individual actions required of ethical organization members and how a leader can use organizational factors to lead an ethical organization. Goal is to sharpen skills in areas including values alignment, ethical decision making, creating an ethical organizational culture, developing a strategic approach to social responsibility, and leading with empathy by considering different perspectives of right/wrong and the impact business decisions have on various stakeholders through the lens of current events.
Prerequisites: Junior standing and admission to the College of Business. Provides students with the opportunities for full-time on-the-job training in conjunction with on-campus academic experiences. Students will participate in professional growth seminars. Departmental and MTSU Career Development Center requirements must be completed to receive credit. These courses (1) may not be used to satisfy the major or the minor requirements and (2) may not be taken concurrently with BUAD 4980.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3610; junior or senior standing; and admission to the College of Business. Explores management theories and practices that impact effective management of organizations in the not-for-profit sector. Topics include nonprofit management as a profession, governing boards, leading nonprofit staff, volunteer management, nonprofit marketing issues, nonprofit financial issues, and social purpose nonprofits.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3610; junior or senior standing; admission into the College of Business. Focuses on essential management functions of short- and long-term strategic decision-making and performance evaluation of not-for-profit organizations. Topics include accountability and performance measurement, collective impact, long-term planning, grant writing, collaborations and partnerships, and fundraising.
(Same as LEAD 4125.) Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Examines women and leadership with an emphasis on personal development. Critically analyzes the challenges, constraints, and opportunities that women face in exercising leadership. Includes an examination of women's diverse leadership styles through an experiential learning project with a community partner.
Prerequisites: Junior standing; admission to the College of Business. Explores the entire leadership process through comprehensive considerations of key leader, follower, and contextual factors. Topics include individual leader traits and behaviors, the leader-follower relationship, leaders' roles in shaping organizational culture, and ethical leadership. Encourages students to be reflective of their current leadership capabilities and of opportunities for growth.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3610; junior or senior standing; acceptance into the College of Business. The impact of differences as the catalyst for effective leadership in teams and organizations. Offers preparation for students to lead and work within diverse teams and global organizations more effectively.
(Same as BLAW 4490 and ECON 4490.) Prerequisites: Junior standing and admission to the College of Business. Economic background and effects of government regulation of labor relations; emphasis on a detailed examination of the National Labor Relations Act as amended or expanded by the Labor Management Relations Act, the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosures Act, and Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act.
(Same as BLAW 4500.) Prerequisites: Junior standing and admission to the College of Business. A detailed examination of the legal rights and responsibilities of employers and employees with respect to fair employment practices; emphasis on significant statutes, administrative regulations, and judicial decisions forming the body of antidiscrimination law.
(Same as ECON 4510.) Prerequisites: Junior standing; admission to the College of Business. The decision-making processes in the industrial relations system and their impact upon the American economy. Particular emphasis on collective bargaining, contract administration, and impasse procedures both in the public and private sectors.
(Same as SOC 4600.) Prerequisites: Junior standing; SOC 3300 and MGMT 3800. Case studies and application discussions of the impact of diversity in the workplace, particularly related to organizational change and conflict/negotiation.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3810; admission to the College of Business. International human resource functions including compensation, labor relations, training, selection, and performance appraisal; impact of culture on IHRM activities.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3610; MGMT 3810; admission to the College of Business. An applied approach to developing the competencies required for the strategic acquisition and management of talent, including job analysis and job design, workforce planning and forecasting, internal and external recruitment, selection, onboarding, socialization, retention, and separation of employment.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3610; MGMT 3810; and admission to the College of Business. An applied approach to developing the competencies used to ensure that employees at all levels of an organization have the knowledge, skills and abilities, and other characteristics (KSAOs) necessary to meet the organization's current and future job requirements. Includes learning theories; instructional design models; needs analysis for the effective design, development, implementation, and evaluation of programs; use of technology for training; change management; career planning and management; strategic performance management, and organizational development.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3610; MGMT 3810; admission to the College of Business. An applied approach to developing the competencies used to ensure that organizations can establish and manage effective compensation and benefits systems that support strategic objectives while also motivating and rewarding employees fairly and equitably. Includes motivation and reward theories, analytical tools and metrics, performance management, current trends in research and industry, and requirements for legal compliance.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3610 and admission to the College of Business. Human behavior in organizations. Emphasis on motivation, leadership, communication, group processes, and methods for managing change. Understanding human behavior allows student to learn better employee utilization strategies resulting in a more effective and efficient organization.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3610; MGMT 3810; MGMT 4640; and admission to the College of Business. Engages a data-driven approach using key metrics from across the functional areas of HRM and technology to address contemporary topics such as diversity and inclusion, alternative working arrangements, and other strategic innovations. Utilizes technology to simulate realistic decision-making scenarios. Comprehensive review of HRM functional areas helps students prepare for certification exams administered by international professional associations such as SHRM-CP.
Prerequisite: MGMT 3620; admission to the College of Business; junior standing. Current issues in managing modern supply chain operations such as group purchasing organizations, health care supply chains, automotive supply chains, small business supply chains, supply chain risks, and sustainable supply chains. Topics covered and course structure vary.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3610; admission to the College of Business. Cultural, political, legal, and economic differences among countries. Global and regional institutions that facilitate international trade and investments. Interface between governments and multinational enterprises. International organizational structures and strategies. Management of functional operations in global markets.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3610 and admission to the College of Business. Cross-cultural dimensions of management theories and the applicability of these theories in a multicultural and multinational environment. Topics include cross-cultural communications, motivation, leadership, and decision making. The role of MNCs in economic development and their relationship with host countries also examined.
Prerequisite: Admission to the College of Business. The coordination and optimization issues faced by firms in managing the inbound and outbound logistics activities of the firm in order to minimize costs and provide high levels of customer service. Logistics activities covered include transportation management, warehousing, order fulfillment, inventory management, and network design.
Prerequisites: MGMT 3610; MGMT 3810; and admission to the College of Business. Theoretical and practical issues related to HRM performance appraisal in organizations. Emphasis on job analysis, measurement of performance, judgmental measures of performance, rating biases, cognitive components in rating, feedback process, performance appraisal training, perceived fairness and accuracy, and legal issues.
(Same as MKT 4840.) Prerequisites: Junior/senior standing; admission to the College of Business. A short-term international business education experience designed to expose the student to the economic, political, cultural, and social environments of a foreign country(ies). Emphasis on the international state/status of the subject matter pertinent to management and marketing.
(Same as ENTR 4920.) Prerequisites: MGMT 3610 or FIN 3040 or ENTR 3040 and admission to the College of Business. Analysis of problems and considerations involved in planning, organizing, and operating small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures. Emphasis on environmental issues, growth strategies, process management activities, and human resource management.
Prerequisites: Management or Business Administration major; senior standing; overall grade point average of at least 2.50; admission to the College of Business. Student is affiliated with an organization on a part-time basis to develop knowledge and experience in the practical application of theory to actual business problems in a non-classroom situation.
Prerequisites: Senior standing;approval of department chair; and admission to the College of Business. Individual research and analysis of contemporary problems and issues in a concentrated area of study under the guidance of an approved faculty member. This course can only be taken one time, and those taking it may not take MGMT 4950.
This program is available hybrid.
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