Degree: Master of Business Administration
Concentration: Management
Hours: 36
Â鶹AV offers a MBA Degree with a concentration in Management on campus or online. This degree program provides core business skills while training you in the FranklinCovey® principles of leadership. You will learn how to build your company's success through better teamwork by maximizing the contributions of each employee. This program is offered on-campus or online and provides core business skills as well as intensive training in proven processes and practices that develop a collaborative leadership style.
As a graduate of this program, you will become a leader who can increase productivity and deliver superior results within each level of your organization, with a skillset that includes staff management, personnel planning, employee incentives and professional development, negotiations and conflict resolution. Watch the faculty interview to learn more about Â鶹AV's MBA program.
Leadership and Negotiation: This course will focus on the tools needed to become a more effective leader and negotiator. Current leadership methodology will be examined along with the effects of cognitive bias on decision-making and the power of effective written communication. Negotiation skills will be taught which will enhance your ability to prepare for and execute a negotiation. These skills will be reinforced by utilizing role-playing and a mock negotiation with your peers.
Employment Law: Historical interpretations and present provisions of regulations governing: labor and common law; state and federal statues; Fair Labor Standards Act; Worker's Compensation; Social Security liability; United States Department of Labor; social legislation and fair employment practices.
Concepts and Applications for New Ventures: This course is designed to provide an introduction to entrepreneurship including an overview of the tools and theories involved in starting and growing a business.
Personal Leadership: Stephen Covey's book, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People", serves as the foundation for this highly interactive course. Participants are provided a strong understanding of the content. The course fosters personal and professional growth, empowers more meaningful relationships and productive collaboration, increases productivity, and results in a healthy work/life balance.
Team Leadership: This course teaches Franklin/Covey's book, "Leadership: Great Leaders, Great Teams, and Great Results". Unleash the talent and capability of your teams by carrying out the four imperatives of great leaders. This course will help students learn how to build credibility and trust with others, define their team's purpose and align it with the organization’s goals, and encourage growth and responsibility of the unique talents of their team.
Managers with MBAs often work with upper executive officers to run various operations in plants, factories, departments, corporations and health facilities. Essentially, they oversee the day-to-day grind of running a company. A manager's tasks can include overseeing the company's financial and accounting divisions, coordinating with the human resources department, and supervising a marketing campaign. According to the BLS, employment in administrative services management was expected to increase by 8% between 2014 and 2024. Competition for high-end management positions would be tight during this time period. There would be a higher growth rate of 17% for medical and health services managers, due in part to an overall growth in this industry. Network and computer system administrators would have an average growth rate of 8% for management positions.
Service manager, general manager, systems administrators