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The primary mission of the Department of Management
is to provide students, at the undergraduate and graduate level, with a
high quality education. Management Department faculty members are
committed to intellectual activity that emphasizes practical
applications and instructional development to complement the
Department’s instructional mission. The Management concentration focuses
on behavior/human resources, supply chain management and
entrepreneurship in organizations. The course work provides a global
perspective that emphasizes leadership, teams, supply-chain management,
entrepreneurship, human resource management, organizational behavior,
communication, decision-making, international management, strategic
management and negotiations. |
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The Management Department aim is to provide students
with a broad set of skills, knowledge, and perspectives so they can
pursue successful and challenging careers in a wide variety of
organizations and industries. We emphasize organizational behavior/human
resources, supply chain management and entrepreneurship in our teaching
and research. We offer specialized certificates within management to
help students gain more in-depth knowledge and enhance their skill-set
and competiveness as they enter the job market. |
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The area of organizational behavior & human
resources focuses on the knowledge, skills and abilities essential to
team effectiveness, negotiation and conflict management and leadership
communication. To support these areas, we offer two certificates: |
- The Human Resource Management Certificate assists
students: (1) Develop knowledge of the principles and practices of
employee management including hiring, development, compensation and
employee relations; (2) Understand the legal environment of employee
relations; (3) Learn how to effectively manage union-management
relations, including legal framework of unions, their organization,
and the negotiation process and how that affects the outcomes of
labor agreements; and (4) Understand the laws that govern
employee—employer relations; and know what to include when building,
structuring, and managing a Human Resources Department.
- The Leadership Communication Certificate helps students:
(1) Acquire the capabilities to be an efficient/effective leader or
member; (2) Develop capacity to perform in a collaborative
environment; (3) Develop interpersonal communication abilities to
lead organizations; (4) Develop interpersonal skills to interact in
virtual and global environments; and (5) Understand the dynamics of
power, influence and protocol when managing organizational
relationships.
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The supply chain management program is focused on teaching students how
to manage the process of planning, sourcing, making and delivering an
organization’s goods and services – from suppliers of raw materials
through to the final customer. Students will discover that the creation
of value requires careful coordination of activities across the
boundaries between functions, firms and nations. In short, students will
learn how to leverage their supply chains to obtain speed, innovation,
dependability, flexibility, cost and/or quality benefits that go far
beyond those potentially realized from solely optimizing internal
operations. To support this, we offer the following certificate: |
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The mission of the entrepreneurship program is to
develop world-class entrepreneurs who, through entrepreneurial activity,
will positively impact our community, our state, our country, and our
world. Students will be exposed to the entrepreneurial mindset—a set of
tools, training, and conceptual frameworks used by successful
entrepreneurs. Although the skills gained in this concentration are
applicable to entrepreneurial activities within organizations of any
size, the primary focus is on the development and analysis of ideas to
create and launch a successful start-up company. To support this, we
offer the following certificate: |
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The Entrepreneurship Certificate provides
students a conceptual framework and set of tools and training
necessary to be successful in an entrepreneurial career including
(1) a global view of entrepreneurship; (2) idea generation; (3)
development of successful business ideas (opportunity assessment and
a business plan),;(4) new venture creation (IP protection, legal
structure, financing, building the team); and (5) managing and
growing the entrepreneurial firm. The certificate is a hands-on
practical set of courses focused on preparing students to be world
class entrepreneurs in their selected field.
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We invite you to explore our website and suggest that you begin with
Course Descriptions.
Dr. John Olienyk,
Interim Chair
Department of Management
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View a selection of some of the awards, honors, and
interesting activities of the Management Department Faculty on our
Faculty Spotlight page. |
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We are pleased to welcome five new full-time
faculty members who joined the Management Department in 2008, bringing
the number of tenured/tenure-track faculty positions to 15. The
department is also currently conducting a search to fill an open
position in organizational behavior/leadership. The five new faculty
members are:
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Dr. Tom Dean, associate
professor, who was on the faculty at University of Colorado in
Boulder for the previous eight years. Dr. Dean brings extensive
teaching and research experience in sustainable entrepreneurship and
will play an important role in the Global Social and Sustainable
Enterprise program.
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Dr. Gideon Markman, associate
professor, formerly an associate professor in Strategy, Innovation,
and Entrepreneurship at the University of Georgia. He will be
lending his expertise to the technology transfer and
commercialization programs related to CSU superclusters.
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Dr. Susan Golicic, assistant
professor, who received her PhD from the University of Tennessee and
served on the faculty at the University of Oregon for the past five
years. Her teaching and research interest is in supply chain
management with a focus on logistics.
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Dr. Troy Mumford, assistant
professor, who received his PhD from Purdue University and has spent
the past six years at Utah State University. He currently teaches
principles of management and conducts research on team effectiveness
and multi-level leadership skill requirements.
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Dr. Brian Fugate, assistant
professor, who received his PhD from the University of Tennessee in
2006 and served on the faculty at Lehigh University for the past two
years. Brian’s area of teaching and research interest is also
supply chain management with a focus on logistics.
Dr. Jackie Hartman is on
sabbatical during the fall semester, 2008 and Dr. Michael Gross will be
on sabbatical during the spring semester, 2009. Both will be conducting
research during their sabbaticals.
Mr. Burt Deines will serve as the
program manager for the Entrepreneurship Center for this academic year.
He will direct the ongoing activities of the Center, including the Great
Entrepreneur Speaker Series, the rotating dinner with students and
entrepreneurs, the newsletter, and the Venture Adventure case
competition.
14 Supply Chain Management Students pass
APICS/ISCEA certification.
Venture Adventure Winners!
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Department Contact Information:
Management Department
Colorado State University
1275 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1275
970-491-5323 |
