MANAGEMENT

 

Mission Statement

The management major is designed for students who envision embarking on a career that will lead them into organizational management. The mission theme of the management curriculum is to develop the student’s proficiency in resource evaluation, resource allocation, and resource management.  This mission theme recognizes all organizational inputs (i.e., human resources, financial resources, physical resources, and knowledge, informational and systems resources) as resources that must be managed for an organization to function effectively.. 

Student Learning Outcomes

 

Pursuant to this mission, the management program shares seven core learning objectives common to all majors within the Bachelor of Business Administration degree in the Coggin College of Business. These are listed below, with modifications specific to management majors shown in bold.  Also shown are the 3000-level and 4000-level courses required of all management majors, in which each particular learning objective receives moderate or high emphasis.

1. Coggin College of Business students majoring in Management will communicate effectively in written, oral and electronic formats.
   
   
2. Coggin College of Business students majoring in Management will identify and propose alternatives to reconciling ethical issues in decision-making.
   
   
3. Coggin College of Business students majoring in Management will understand the global economy and recognize the impact of diverse socio-economic and cultural factors on business operations. 
   
   
4. Coggin College of Business students majoring in Management will utilize technology to enhance decision-
   making skills and improve productivity.
   
   
5. Coggin College of Business students majoring in Management will demonstrate the ability to think critically to identify problems, and propose alternatives to these problems.
   
   
6. Coggin College of Business students majoring in Management will acquire knowledge in the major functional areas of business and understand the interrelationships among them. 
   
   
7. Coggin College of Business students majoring in Management successfully completing their program of study will demonstrate the following content knowledge and skills specific to their major.

 

 

Content/Discipline Knowledge & Skills

 

• understand key concepts, theories and practices important to the management of organizations
  
  
• diagnose organizational situations and develop decisions and managerial actions that enhance organizational effectiveness
  
  
• identify methods to obtain and use data to solve problems and make effective management decisions
  
  
• articulate their own personal code of professional ethics

 

Critical Thinking Skills

• identify and evaluate examples of functional and dysfunctional leadership drawing on models of leadership
  
  
• confront complex and ambiguous organizational situations, select and apply current theory from all disciplines of business and make reasoned recommendations

 

Communication Skills

• demonstrate effective written communication skills by writing clearly, concisely and in a persuasive manner, and presenting written products in a professional format utilizing appropriate word processing and graphic software
  
  
• demonstrate effective oral presentations skills incorporating multimedia in their presentations
  
  
• demonstrate interpersonal and team-based interaction skills

Curriculum Map
Click on the image below to see in which Managment courses these Student Learning Outcomes are addressed:

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Assessment Approaches

 

Oral communication (objective 1) will be assessed by the average student performance while delivering an individual speech during SPC 4064 (Public Speaking for Professionals), using a standardized, anchored grading rubric for all students.

International business knowledge (objective 3) will be assessed by the average student score on the international business assessment indicator (sub-score) of the Major Field Test in Business from the Educational Testing Service (ETS), which will be administered in each student’s last term in their program of study.

Use of technology (objective 4) will be assessed by the average student score on questions developed by Coggin College Information Systems Management (ISM) faculty, and administered at the beginning and end of the term as each student completes ISM 4011 (Introduction to Management Information Systems). 

Critical thinking (objective 5) will be assessed by the average student score on a standardized critical thinking instrument (e.g., the Watson-Glazer Critical Thinking Appraisal), which will be administered as part of an upper division course required of all majors (e.g., MAN 3504 – Production / Operations & Logistics Management). 

Content knowledge in the functional areas of business (objective 6) will be assessed through the Major Field Test in Business from ETS, and administered in each student’s last term.  Content knowledge will be measured by the average overall student score, as well as the average student score on each of eight assessment indicators (or sub-scores), including accounting, economics, management, quantitative analysis, finance, marketing, legal / social environment, and information systems.

Knowledge specific to the major (objective 7) will be assessed by the average score of all Management majors graduating each term on the Management assessment indicator (sub-score) of the Major Field Test in Business from ETS.  In addition, advanced Management questions developed by the Coggin College Management faculty will be administered via course-embedded instruments in the required courses within the major, or appended to the Major Field Test in Business taken in the student’s last term.  The average score on these questions will be used for assessment of knowledge specific to the major.

Additional assessment approaches are in development, and those noted above are subject to revision as deemed appropriate.

 

 

Career Opportunities

For information on the many career options available to Transportation and Logistics majors, go to What Can You Do with a Management Major at: http://www.unf.edu/dept/cdc/majors/management.html

 

For More Information

To learn more about the UNF Management program and majoring in Management, go to http://www.unf.edu/ccb/mml/index.htm

 

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