Welcome to the Department of Management Studies' web site. Our department includes eight tenure-track faculty, several adjunct faculty, and our outstanding Administrative Assistant! (You can find out more about this outstanding group of people here.) We serve almost 250 students majoring in Organizational Management and Human Resource Management.

Our department is committed to academic excellence. According to our departmental value statement, “We are committed to the intellectual growth and development of people.” We further state that, “We will strive to make our value statement a reality through our commitment to the creation, interpretation, application and dissemination of knowledge, and by working to create an environment in which our students are encouraged to consume knowledge, think, question, analyze and explore problems and their solutions, and to articulate their own emerging theories of management and organizational actions.”

This is what our department is all about - the creation and dissemination of knowledge, and encouraging our students to engage in the pursuit of knowledge. Toward that end, our faculty is actively involved in the research process. The results of this work are brought into the classroom to contribute to the education of our students, and they are published in scholarly and/or practitioner journals. In addition to the publication of several textbooks, our faculty have had their work published in many of the outstanding management and organizational studies journals, including Academy of Management Review, Human Resource Development Quarterly, Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology, and the Strategic Management Journal.

We also value and enjoy our teaching and academic advising responsibilities. Members of our faculty have won several teaching awards, including the University of Minnesota system-wide Horace T. Morse award for outstanding contributions to undergraduate education. Faculty within the department have also been awarded the Labovitz School's professor of the year award, and the University's academic advisor of award.

Students in Management Studies have many opportunities to learn, both within and beyond the classroom. We offer a broad range of classes, from Organizational Leadership to the Management of Innovation and Technology, to Training and Development. Outside the classroom, students have a range of learning opportunities in which to participate. Students can become involved with UROPS (a student research program aimed especially at Undergraduate students), faculty research projects, internships in the business community, and student-run organizations such as The Future Entrepreneurs of America and the UMD chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

Upon graduation, our students find employment opportunities in a wide variety of industries and settings. Many HR graduates find positions in the Human Resource departments of major corporations, while our Organizational Management majors often begin either in a management training program with a major corporation (such as Target or Best Buy), or family-owned businesses - often assuming significant management responsibilities in the latter.

Thanks for visiting the Management Studies web site. I trust you will find the information for which you're looking.

Geoff Bell
Chair, Department of Management Studies