• Human Resource Management/Organizational Behavior
• Operations Management
• Strategic Management

The minor field consists of courses taken outside your Major Field that provide coherent support for the major field. You can choose a minor field:

• Within the Department of Management. For example, a student majoring in Production/ Operations Management can select Strategic Management as a minor field. Students selecting a minor within the Department of Management must take at least one of that minor's doctoral seminars.
• Within other Departments in the Terry College of Business: Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management Science, Marketing, MIS, or Insurance, Legal Studies, and Real Estate.
• Outside the Terry College of Business. Previous Ph.D. students have chosen such disciplines as Psychology, Computer Science, Public Administration, and Sociology for their minor field option.

A minor field courses must pertain to a specific discipline and not to research methodology.

Previous graduate course work may be used to satisfy Major Field, Minor Field, and Research Methodology requirements. However, students must complete the required minimum hours of course work (exclusive of the first two Research Methodology courses and 9 hours of dissertation work) while in the program.

For details of the full range of graduate courses, see the Graduate Bulletin.

Two required courses are taken within the Department of Management:

• MGT9010 Management Research Methodology (3 hours)
  The requirements that science places on management research. The importance of theory as a source of research questions, the role of constructs and variables, sampling, measurement, and the design of research to facilitate valid explanations of management phenomena.
• MGT9020 Concepts of Organizations (3 hours)
  An elaboration of recent literature on organization theory with an emphasis on empiricism and methodology.

• MGT9030 Doctoral Research Seminar (3 hours)
  A survey of management research with particular emphasis on preparing students for research in different aspects of management.

These courses may be used, as appropriate, to fulfill the major, minor, or research requirements of the Ph.D.

At least two semesters of a Research Apprenticeship must be taken as an independent or directed study under the guidance of a Major Field professor. Apprenticeship work in the Department of Management involves research activities leading to publication.