Management

About the Department

Jonathan Biggane, Department Chair
Peters Business Building, Room 289
559.278.2851
craig.fresnostate.edu/mgt/

The Department of Management offers three options within the Bachelor of Science in the Business Administration degree program: 

1. The Entrepreneurship Option offers students a comprehensive academic experience in entrepreneurship that starts with the classroom and links to the community. It integrates core business concepts around the formation, start-up, and growth of an entrepreneurial firm. By taking a select group of entrepreneurship courses, the students learn how to launch their own business idea.
   Students can facilitate their learning experience through active involvement in the Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Craig School’s Solutions Hub, and the Institute for Family Business. Students also have the opportunity to engage with the Water Energy Technology (WET) Center at Fresno State as well as participate in numerous community based internship opportunities and projects.
2. The Human Resource Management (HRM) Option explores how organizations can best utilize their most important resource - their employees. Among the issues discussed are how to recruit and select the best employees, how to determine fair compensation, how to use benefit and performance appraisal systems that reward high performance, how to comply with federal and state employment laws, and how to negotiate and resolve employment disputes. The courses offered are intended to help those interested in creating a work environment that promotes teamwork and encourages employee excellence.
3. The Management Option develops skills, knowledge, attitudes, and abilities necessary for effective leadership in a wide variety of organizations. Graduates are prepared for entry-level leadership positions in today’s rapidly-changing workplace through a dynamic curriculum combining theory, skill development, and practical experience, including internships in the student’s area of interest. Courses develop those leadership abilities demanded by employers that include written, oral, analytical, and people skills.

Interesting Classes You Might Take

• Introduction to Entrepreneurship
• Managing the New Venture
• Franchising
• The Staffing of Organizations

What You Can Learn

• Collective bargaining techniques
• Motivation-to-work theory
• Development of an idea that results in a business plan
• What is required to start a new firm

Faculty

The faculty of the Department of Management comprises individuals who have studied and pursued business careers throughout the world. Well over a dozen specializations within the field of business administration are taught, researched, and shared with the business community by these professors. Case studies, experiential exercises, computer simulations, laboratory research, business community projects, guest speakers, and seminar discussions are just a few of the ways in which instructors provide the students with a “real-world” exposure to business. The combination of faculty expertise, teaching skills, research activities, and business experiences assures the student of receiving the best possible management education.

Career Opportunities

What You Can Earn

• Human Resource Manager, $97,642 (in our region)
• Human Resource Information System Manager, $136,600 (in our region)
• Human Resources Assistant, $46,412 (in our region)

Source: HR Reported data from salary.com and indeed.com as of February 2024

Programs

• Entrepreneurship, Certificate of Special Study
• Human Resource Management, Certificate of Special Study
• Organizational Management, Certificate of Special Study

• Business Administration - Entrepreneurship Option, B.S.
• Business Administration - Human Resource Management Option, B.S.
• Business Administration - Management Option, B.S.

• Entrepreneurship, Minor
• General Business, Minor