Core Management Topics

The topics listed below were identified by the management faculty as those critical for a Ph.D. student in Management to know. These topics are covered on the first day of the comprehensive exam.

• Leadership/influence
• Groups/teams/group dynamics
• Organizational change and development
• Motivation models/theories
• Organizational culture
• Organization design and structure
• Innovation
• Power, politics, and decision making
• Basic HRM functions
• Strategic management processes
• Strategic management content (e.g., economic theory of the firm; agency theory)
• Individual and organizational cognition
• Individual differences (ability, personality, etc.)
• Individual and organizational outcomes (job satisfaction, extra-role behaviors, performance, withdrawal, attitudes and behavior, commitment, stress)