EXPLORING BUSINESS MAJORS
MANAGEMENT
Degree: Bachelor of Business Administration in Management
COMPANIES THAT HIRE RAWLS GRADUATES
Job Placement Rate*: 85.4% (May 2015)
Major Admission Requirements: A or B in MGT 3370,
2.75 cumulative Texas Tech University GPA
Available Concentrations: Human Resource Management,**
Strategic Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Available Certificates: Certificate in Leadership, Certificate in
International Business, Joint Business/Engineering Certificate in
Technology Entrepreneurship
•Cintas
•Highland Homes
•Enterprise Rent-A-Car
•Insight Global
•Ethos Group
•ISNetworld
•Ferguson, a Wolseley
Company
•Sherwin Williams
•GEICO
• Walmart
•Target
•H-E-B Grocery
Popular Double Majors: Marketing
Example of Study Abroad Countries: Australia, China, Czech Repulic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Norway,
New Zealand, Spain, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
See a full list of study abroad programs for your major at RawlsAbroad.com.
*Dependent on market conditions and number of graduates
**Students pursuing a concentration in Human Resource Management will be eligible to sit for the SHRM certification exam prior to graduation
CAREERS
Human Resource Management
Retail Management
Entrepreneurship
• Recruiting/staffing
•Purchasing/buying
• Family business
• Compensation
• Store management
• Venture capitalism
• Benefits
• Brand management
• Business start-ups
• Training
• New product development
• Employee relations
MANAGEMENT STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS
•Society for Advancement of Management (SAM) | sie.ba.ttu.edu
•Sigma Iota Epsilon (SIE) | samnational.org
•Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) | lubbock.shrm.org
For a complete list of student organizations within the Rawls College of Business, visit studentorgs.ba.ttu.edu.
Undergraduate Services Center | undergrad.ba.ttu.edu
806.742.3171 | ba_undergrad@ttu.edu
SAMPLE COURSE CURRICULUM
Business Environments
Conflict and Negotiations
Entrepreneurship
Family Business
• Social and public
responsibility
•Organizational stakeholder management
•Business strategic and
competitive analyses
•Unique characteristics of family business systems
•Ethics
•Negotiation types, challenges and opportunities
•Ethical decision-making approaches
•Ownership interests and action effects
•Negotiation strategies
and tactics
•Entrepreneurial opportunity evaluations and process
engagement
•Impact of family cultures and actions on wealth transfers
•Business external and
operational environments
•Stakeholder consideration
and influence
Innovation and Change
Processes
•Diagnostic knowledge of
negotiating strengths and weaknesses
•Business plan creation and presentation
•Business environments and economies
•Succession planning processes
Human Resource Management
International Management
Leadership and Ethics
•Human resource methods, functions, roles and principles
•Multinational environment
management
•Emergent ethical issues
facing organizations
•Employee selection, recruitment,
development and retention
•Global operations, strategies
and interactions
•Team member/leader
interactions
•Innovation drivers, definitions and dimensions
•Employment decisions
•Conceptual leadership
perspectives
•Management direction during organizational changes
•Performance management systems
•Cross-border trade, integration,
investments and political
economies
•Cross-cultural innovation
support
•Labor relations
Managerial Communication
Organizational Behavior
Organization Management
Strategic Management
•Communication principles,
processes and complexities
•Organizational and leadership
efficacy
•Organizational environments,
structures and cultures
•Communication variations,
strategies, purposes and
channels
•Management and ethical
approaches and challenges
•Organizational strategies and
functional activities
•Organizational pursuit of
superior economic
performance
•Technology and social media
•Workplace behavior influences
and situational factors
•Controlling and measuring
performance
•Leadership and interpersonal
communication challenges
•Leadership effects and
effectiveness
•Leadership and motivation
processes
•Interpersonal, group and
cross-cultural cooperation
•Persuasion and
communication fundamentals
•Organizational performance activities and measures
•Emerging change trends
•Employee rights
•Global production, outsourcing and logistics
•Organizational leadership contexts
•Personal leadership
development plans
•Relationships between
organizations, industries
and environments
•Sustainable competitive
advantage
•Strategic and tactical
implications of
decision making
RAWLS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY RESOURCES
Texas Tech University
•Admissions | www.admissions.ttu.edu
•Financial Aid | www.financialaid.ttu.edu
•Scholarships | www.scholarships.ttu.edu
Rawls College of Business
•Career Management Center | www.rawlscmc.com
•Area of Management | management.ba.ttu.edu
•Georgie G. Snyder Communication Skills Center | comskillscenter.ba.ttu.edu
•Undergraduate Services Center | undergrad.ba.ttu.edu
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of Business reserves the right to make changes to pertinent information
including but not limited to degree plans and program requirements.