EntryLevel Management

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Entry-Level Management

• Team 5 Quinn Lonski
• Susan Buckham
• Jim Kovach
• Megan Coy
• Kuan-Ying Lai

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This is Joe Average.
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This is his story.
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Joe Average

• Sophomore Ohio University
• College of Business
• Undecided major

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Joes Interests

• Likes to work with computers
• Enjoys helping and working with people
• Loves math and science
• Always looking for a challenge

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Choices for Joe

• We decided to research these five areas to find
  out what suits Joe the best
• Corporate Legal Affairs
• Finance
• Human Resources
• Marketing
• Management Information Systems

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Corporate Legal Affairs

• Provide legal advice on leasing, licensing,
  contracts, analyze the law in support of
  corporate initiatives and undertakings
• Business law degree or related area and juris
  doctorate

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Finance

• Preparing budgets for the company, keeping track
  of day to day cash flow, and preparing reports
  for outside sources
• BA in finance or accounting and an MBA in
  business administration

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Human Resources

• Recruiting and interviewing employees and
  producing job descriptions
• Bachelors degree in human resources or related
  field

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Marketing

• Developing and implementing strategic marketing
  plans for an organization
• Bachelors Degree in Marketing

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Management Information Systems

• Direct work of systems analyst, programming and
  systems design, development of networks
• Bachelors in MIS, knowledge of current
  information systems

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Average Salaries
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Our recommendations for Joe

• After our analysis of the situation,
• We have decided Joe should become
• an MIS manager
• (After several years of experience of course!)

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Joe needs to

• Graduate with a Bachelors degree
• Degree in MIS, IT or a related area
• Needs to gain experience in a corporate setting
• i.e. internships

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Emphasized roles for an MIS manager

• Interpersonal
• Leader
• Informational
• Monitor
• Disseminator

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Emphasized roles contd

• Decisional
• Entrepreneur

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Chart of Managerial Skills by Level of Management
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Now Joe can think about a Management position
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Good Luck Joe!