Management Concentration

Organizations need managers that can lead people, think strategically, and create successful organizational environments. The management concentration teaches you how to:

• Motivate human capital
• Encourage teamwork
• Identify competitive advantages
• Build and change organizations
• Negotiate effectively
• Think strategically
• Engage in consulting
• Start a new business successfully
• Manage people and organizations
• Succeed in diverse and multicultural work environments

Mason's management prepares you for business management careers in both the public and private sectors. Offering a wide variety of management courses, you can tailor the management concentration to a specific management career path such as human resource management, entrepreneurship, or management consulting.

Management faculty mentors can provide additional information on business management careers. For more information, contact businfo@gmu.edu

Learning Goals for Management Concentration

• Integrate key components of human resource management (including selection, training, compensation, strategic human resource planning, performance evaluation, employee relations, and employment law).
• Become aware of the uses of technology in business.
• Effectively communicate.
• Increase knowledge about the legal environment of business.
• Learn how to be critical thinkers.

View the management curriculum in the current University Catalog or University Catalog Archives. You may also find a sample four-year plan on the Resources page.