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Management and Organizations

Chair: Jay Christensen-Szalanski
Professors: Jay Christensen-Szalanski, Nancy R. Hauserman (Williams Teaching Professor), Michael K. Mount (Henry B. Tippie Research Professor of Human Resources), Sara L. Rynes (John F. Murray Professor), Frank L. Schmidt (Ralph L. Sheets Professor)
Professors emeriti: Norman F. Kallaus, Charles R. Klasson, Lola L. Lopes, Gerald L. Rose, Peter P. Schoderbek, Duane E. Thompson, Jude P. West
Clinical professors: David K. Hensley, Lon D. Moeller
Associate professors: Terry L. Boles, Kenneth G. Brown, Amy L. Kristof-Brown, Greg L. Stewart
Assistant professor: Amy E. Colbert
Lecturer: Dennis M. Schrag
Undergraduate degree: B.B.A. in Management
Graduate degrees: M.B.A.; M.A., Ph.D. in Business Administration
Web site: http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/manorg

The Department of Management and Organizations offers study of human resource management; individual, team, and organizational behavior; employment law and ethics; leadership and personal development; negotiations; training and development; and organizational design.

Undergraduate Program

The department offers a Bachelor of Business Administration in management. The program is designed to give students a thorough background in the department's study areas as well as an understanding of their application to real-life situations. Specific courses, research projects, and other experiences, such as simulations, are blended to include both theoretical and pragmatic aspects of the field.

The program prepares students for a variety of line, staff, and professional positions in business, consulting firms, government, nonprofit institutions, and education. Graduates find employment opportunities in general management, sales, human resource management, strategic reward systems, staff benefits, organizational staffing, training and development, career management, and employment law. Many graduates pursue further study in law, human resources, industrial and organizational psychology, or labor relations.

Bachelor of Business Administration

The Bachelor of Business Administration in management requires 21 s.h. in the major, as follows.

06J:125 Entrepreneurial Strategy   3 s.h.
06J:130 Individuals, Teams, and Organizations   3 s.h.
06J:131 Strategic Human Resource Management   3 s.h.
06J:132 Law and Ethics in Management   3 s.h.
06J:156 Dynamics of Negotiations   3 s.h.

Two of these:
06J:140 Competitive Strategy   3 s.h.
06J:145 Training and Developing Human Resources   3 s.h.
06J:146 International Business Environment   3 s.h.
06J:147 Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness I   3 s.h.
06J:148 Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness II   3 s.h.
06J:159 Introduction to the U.S. Health Care System   3 s.h.
06J:160 Staffing Organizations   3 s.h.
06J:162 Leadership and Personal Development   3 s.h.
06J:168 Topics in Management   3 s.h.
06J:171 Strategic Reward Systems   3 s.h.
06T:192 Entrepreneurship: Business Consulting   3 s.h.

Graduate Programs

The Department of Management and Organizations offers the Doctor of Philosophy in business administration. Ph.D. requirements are described under " Graduate Programs" in the Tippie College of Business section of the Catalog and on the Department of Management and Organizations web site.

The Master of Arts in business administration is a nonthesis degree awarded only to students who begin the Ph.D. program and decide not to continue. Incoming students may not elect to pursue the M.A.

For information about the M.B.A., see Master of Business Administration Program in the Catalog or contact the Tippie School of Management.

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