The School of Business and Management offers the major in Business Management. This program is designed to allow adult professionals to earn a degree while remaining in their career. Since many adults desire to earn their degree but are unable to attend classes during regular class hours, courses are offered during nontraditional hours through accelerated formats. The Business Management major is designed to assist individuals who are in a broad variety of professional arenas by ensuring that program graduates can: Demonstrate the elements of effective communication in a variety of interpersonal and organizational settings. Demonstrate understanding of ways that individuals and groups influence organizational behavior. Understand and demonstrate management theories, principles, processes and skills. Comprehend and apply components of human resource planning, personnel selection, motivation and evaluation as these factors affect organizations. Understand and analyze principal decision-making resources that leaders use in organizational management. Communicate an understanding of ethics and apply ethical decision-making in organizations. Understand and develop lifelong learning attitudes and skills.