What is Management?

Management is the process of getting activities completed efficiently and effectively through other people. Planning, organizing, staffing, directing, coordinating, reporting, and budgeting are all key factors and aspects of the overall function of an organization's management.

The Rucks Department of Management

• Encompasses a breadth of teaching and research in areas such as organizational behavior, human resources, strategy, entrepreneurship, industrial/labor relations, and international management for undergraduates, graduate students, and executives.
• Offers a bachelor's degree that builds upon the foundation of the college's core business curriculum.
• Allows bachelor students to pursue concentrations in entrepreneurship, human resource management, or general management.
• Offers Ph.D. students a limited and selective enrollment that provides students opportunities to develop personal and professional ties with faculty and fellow students, as well as opportunities to work with faculty actively engaged in a wide range of on-going research projects, the results of which are regularly reported in leading social science journals.

The LSU Honors College provides the opportunity for exceptional students to earn the upper-division honors distinction along with the bachelor's in management. Additionally, students can participate in various organizations and activities including the following:

• Sigma Iota Epsilon - This honorary and professional management fraternity's general purposes are to encourage and promote cooperation between the acadmic and applied areas of management. For more information, visit www.sienational.com.



• SHRM - The Society of Human Resource Managment, or SHRM for short, is the world's largest association devoted to human resource manaagement. Respresenting more than 210,000 members, SHRM's mission is to serve the needs of HR professionals by providing the most essential and comprehensive resources available. For more information, visit www.shrm.org.