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)
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