Why major in management?
Doug Richardson, Jim White and I have been teaching management for a long time! Recently, I asked them to answer the question, “Why should anyone major in management?” Below are their answers.
Management to me is the logical major for anyone who is not sure of a passion or speciality of interest. Due to the fact that management is universal (in that all things need managing), it is the most employable skill in the current workplace and the work place of tomorrow. No matter what the area that you become interested in, it needs managing.
The other issue is that we all manage (some better than others), whether it is at our job, health, finances, career, family, community, education, social endeavors or even spirituality. The basics of management are employed or used to insure success in all the above.
I am sitting here listening to the old Bachman-Turner Overdrive song Takin’ Care of Business. Everything is a business. Everybody is in business. Have you bought something today? Lunch? Gasoline? Coffee? You have been involved in business. Art is a business. Sports are businesses. Even education is a business.
Managers are the people who keep these businesses running. Managers take a finite amount of resources and use them to achieve a specified goal. The title of the first management course you take here at North Lake is Principles of Management (BMGT 1327). The dictionary defines “principle” as a fundamental truth, law, etc. on which others are based. Principles of management can be used, in fact must be used, to make any kind of goal seeking organization successful. It makes no difference if you are running an automobile dealership or a hospital; if you are to be successful you must master certain principles of management.
Well, you may ask, why do I have to go to school to learn these principles? Why not just jump into business and learn from experience? You certainly could do it that way. You could also learn to box by getting into the ring with a number of experienced fighters. If you survived at all you would probably be pretty good. In management classes you can learn at least the basic things to do, and not do, without a great deal of risk. Think of it this way, the most you risk in college is a bad grade. In the real world you are risking your job, your money, or even your organization.
A major in management will give you a set of skills, a body of knowledge, which you can use to achieve almost anything you want in life. What’s more, your professors will arrange it in a manner that allows you to learn it fairly rapidly and retain it until you need it. There is no other college major that gives you knowledge you can apply so quickly to so many different fields of endeavor.
What about you? Why did you major in management?
I decide to major in management so that I can receive knowledge and have the different tool set when its time for me to start my own business career.
I chose Management as my major because my hobby of basketball has now become a growing business. I had good people-skills, but needed to know a lot more about business and actual people-management.
I chose to major in management because I feel like it will open up more doors for me in the business world. As well as it’s almost required in every management position some type of managemt skills, certifications and or experience. I want to management knowledge to pursue my goal of starting my own business or becoming a business owner. I feel content with the decesion to pursue management and know that it will take me a long way. Evrything on this earth is a business and with the right knowledge I feel like I am and will be prepared for anything.
Well, my major is not Management but it is related to Management Course. i think in today’s world proper management have become key to success.as we know to top companies follow good management to compete with their rivals. US oil spill by BP was blamed on bad management. therefore, having a management skills gives you an advantage over others.by majoring in management it guides you to your career path.
Why major in Management? Good question! Management to me is the center of a wheel, is what keeps individuals seeking for something new, to learn, to teach, to socialize, to sell, to buy, to negotiate, to interact. Management is what keeps this world running. I enjoy being a Manager because there are so many challenges out in the real world. As a Manager the best feeling I get is to see how you can benefit and inspire others around you.
Mariano Caldentey
I chose to major in management, because the possibilities are endless. Every career path has a management position in it. While you can learn a lot with on the job experience and first hand. There are something’s that the job will just not teach you. Such as theories and methods that I have learned about while taking classes towards my degree. You can also learn where others ideas have succeed and others have failed and learn the reason why and how to be a smarter manager because of it. Then when you combine the two like in situations such as processing data and creating better workflow process, the knowledge and experience you gain from both in the class and on the job training well help you mind the better business decision.
I chose Management because I recently started a small business and I plan on molding and evolving it into a something larger and more prosperous. My father has always been an entrepreneur; he owned and started a few small businesses here and there, which with time he sold when he saw them as financially exhausted. I believe that he lacked the knowledge of business administration and therefore instead of marketing for the company or simply attempting to expand to increase revenue/profits he would simply sell the business. I have ventured into the entrepreneur lifestyle involving risks and decision making; I have started a company, which ultimately is a subdivision of my father’s company, which with the knowledge and experience that I gain from obtaining my BBA (MBA with time) I plan to evolve it into thriving company and hope to inspire my dad to follow suit.