Management
Management encompasses the planning, directing, or coordination of operations for companies or organizations by formulating policies, managing daily activities, and effectively using materials and human resources.
Managers work within organizations as diverse as service businesses (finance, insurance, creative, design, hospitality, sales, travel, accounting, advertising and media, retail), manufacturing, construction, medicine, education, and government to allow efficient and effective operations. Managers need to be flexible, decisive, analytical, detail-oriented, and have good communication and interpersonal skills. Each industry or profession often requires additional specific education or training.
At JFKU, programs offered by the School of Management (SOM) emphasize social responsibility, sustainability, and ethical business practices that encourage you to gain the knowledge, skills, and values you need to succeed as a management professional in today’s dynamic business environment. Programs include business administration, career development, and strategic management, with specializations in e-commerce, project management, leadership, and strategy.
You may also benefit from the following JFKU programs related to the broad field of management.
JFKU’s Graduate School of Professional Psychology (GSPP) offers both master’s and certificate programs in organizational psychology, which is the multidisciplinary study of organizational change and development. Also available are a certificate in organizational coaching, a master’s in counseling psychology, and the PsyD degree. In our programs, you’ll recognize that change is a constant in every governmental, nonprofit, and public and private business organization. You’ll emerge with critical people-oriented skills in organizational development, leadership, team building, managing diversity, coaching, managing and resolving conflict, and personal mastery.
Related programs through JFKU’s School of Holistic Studies (SHS) that may be helpful to those interested in the field of management include master’s degrees in consciousness and transformative studies, integral psychology, and counseling psychology, with specializations in holistic studies, somatic psychology, or transpersonal psychology. Our experiential approach integrates body, mind, spirit, environment, and culture for a deeper understanding of self and others, and develops the skills to integrate holistic perspectives into life and work.
JFKU’s School of Education and Liberal Arts (SELA) delivers related programs that include psychology; science, health, and living systems; social ecology; and the certificate in Essentials Coaching, offered in cooperation with the Ford Institute for Integrative Coaching.
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