Management Concentration

Management positions exist at all levels—in administration, marketing, finance, human resources, sales, and more. The management concentration in the business administration at Becker College focuses on effective communication, planning, and problem solving skills, as well as expertise in project and team management. Students enrolled in the management concentration learn how organizations formulate strategies, set goals and objectives, implement plans, and measure results.

Whether you are an aspiring entrepreneur, committed to social justice, or looking forward to a career at a Fortune 500 company, you will need to understand the fundamentals of business.

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Learning Outcomes

• Communication: Students demonstrate effective written and oral communication including informed arguments, persuasion, synthesize complex data, and concepts.
• Context: Students demonstrate comfort with and ability to effectively operate in: ambiguity, complexity, uncertainty, and change. Students will be adept at situational awareness. Students understand the historical context of their culture and they will view the world from a global lens acknowledging the diversity of cultures and values. Students demonstrate propositional thinking; they will test and iterate on ideas/solutions based upon feedback and learn from their own failures.
• Quantitative: Students use quantitative and analytical methods to address unstructured business problems.
• Ethics: Students demonstrate ability to evaluate decisions based on an awareness of relevant stakeholders in the creation of sustainable social, environmental, and economic value.
• Cognitive Flexibility: Students demonstrate mastery of various thinking modes, notably analytic, synthetic, convergent, divergent, creative, and critical; and when to employ each type. Student demonstrate awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses and will seek continual improvements. Student demonstrate both self and social awareness and management to effectively play various roles on an interdisciplinary team from leader to contributor to participant (role fluidity). These skills are essential for all leadership and management roles.
• Value Creation: Students identify, create, shape, and capture value through understanding economic models and the reality of industry disruption cycles.

Business Administration