Climb the corporate ladder. Or start your own business.

Whether you want to lead a company or start your own, Nichols Management Program prepares you as a manager - and a leader - in the business world.

Two of the most important skills you can bring to a company are the ability to solve problems and manage people. The Management Program builds these critical areas by developing your analytic, communications and decision-making skills.

Our multifaceted program starts with core business courses and adds specialized business topics such as:

  • leadership
  • globalization
  • entrepreneurship
  • decision-making
  • operations
  • teamwork
  • change
  • quality
Career Opportunities

As a Management Program graduate, you’ll be ready to pursue a challenging career in a variety of market sectors:

  • retail
  • health care
  • government
  • social services
  • non-profit
  • transportation
  • insurance
  • education
  • manufacturing
 

Career Success!

Lauren E. Koenig

Class of 2011: Lauren E. Koenig
Hometown: Holden MA
Major: Management
Minor: Marketing
Position: Sherwin Williams, management trainee
Worcester, Mass.

I came to Nichols because I knew I would be more successful on a smaller campus. I went to a technical high school for cabinet making, and originally, I thought I might want to start a small, wood-working business. When I got a paid internship at a Sherwin Williams store, I found that I had an affinity for the retail work. I already knew a lot about stain products.

Because the company has a policy of promoting from within, I formally accepted a full-time position in March of my senior year and plan to climb up to the top of the corporate ladder.

Read about internship experiences.

Specialization Courses

Management majors must complete 121 credit hours (approximately 40 courses), including courses from the foundation and business core curricula, focused electives and these required specialization courses:

HRM 213
 
Human Resource Management		 3 Hours, 1 Semester
 

This course introduces students to the fundamental practices involved in effective human resource management, such as recruiting, performance evaluation, compensation, employment law, and employee rights. HR theory and practice is emphasized within the context of improving organizational productivity and developing employee potential.
Prerequisite: MGMT 100
MGMT 378
 
Entrepreneurial Management		 3 Hours, 1 Semester
 

This course provides fundamental knowledge and skills in entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, both of which focus on the process of establishing and successfully operating a new business. Entrepreneurship is setting up a freestanding new business and accepting the risks of time, effort, and money associated with such a venture. Intrapreneurship is forming a new business within an organizational setting where the sponsoring organization assumes the risks and the ownership of the outcome.
Prerequisite: MGMT 226
MGMT 388
 
International Management		 3 Hours, 1 Semester
 

Examines management theory and practice as applied to business activities that cross national boundaries. Emphasis is placed on an understanding of strategic, cultural, behavioral, functional, legal, and socio-ethnical aspects of international management in a global economy with multinational business enterprises.
Prerequisite: MGMT 226
MGMT 389
 
Management of Innovation and Change		 3 Hours, 1 Semester
 

This course focuses on the strategies and tactics for conceiving, developing, initiating and managing innovation and change within an established corporate structure. Topics include attributes of corporate entrepreneurs, bases of creativity and innovation, interpersonal and inter- departmental relationships, promoting innovation and change within the corporate structure, organizational politics, strategic organizational changes, and corporate culture.
Prerequisite: MGMT 226
MGMT 429
 
Current Issues in Management		 3 Hours, 1 Semester
 

Since management knowledge continues to be augmented by new research findings, conceptualizations, and management experience, this course examines current issues and emerging trends in managerial theory and practice. The course affords the opportunity to study and treat topics not covered in other management major courses, and thus provides, in an ongoing fashion, the necessary program currency. Students are acquainted with the managerial issues of the day and with topics that represent leading edge managerial thinking and practice.
Prerequisites: MGMT 226 and HRM 213
MGMT 482
 
Management Seminar		 3 Hours, 1 Semester
 

The Management Seminar is the capstone course for a specialization in management. The seminar focuses on the study of management models, managerial ethics, and decision making. In addition, the seminar strives to synthesize certain core concepts and research findings presented in other prescribed management courses completed prior to enrollment in the seminar.
Prerequisite: MGMT 429

 

College Catalog

Review or download the college catalog for additional details and information about courses and requirements.

Key Faculty
Arthur Duhaime
  • Arthur Duhaime
  • Program Chair

Questions about the Management Program? Contact Professor Art Duhaime, Program Chair, at art.duhaime@nichols.edu or 508-213-2343.