Management

About the PhD in Management

The PhD program in management is designed to develop qualified scholars who will excel in research and teaching positions at major universities and colleges. Within the Department of Management, students may specialize in organizational behavior or strategic management. Each student works with an advisor and a committee to create an appropriate academic program. As part of their program, students are expected to be actively involved with faculty mentors in teaching and conducting research leading to professional presentations and publications.

Prospective applicants can obtain information about the Terry College PhD program, including admission requirements, application deadlines and application materials from the Terry College PhD web site.

Prerequisites

  • Mathematics (6 semester hours)
    Calculus is a prerequisite for the PhD program.
  • Foundations in Business Administration (12 semester hours)
    Accredited graduate business programs throughout the country require that students have a foundation in business administration — course work that represents a broad field of business.

Please note that if you have a BBA or an MBA degree from an AACSB accredited Business School, then these foundation hours will be waived automatically.

Program of Study

As a PhD student in the Department of Management, you'll be responsible for completing course work in four areas:

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Major Fields

  • Human resource management/Organizational behavior
  • Operations management
  • Strategic management

Minor Field Options

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 PhD 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.

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Required courses

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.

Optional course

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

Optional courses may be used, as appropriate, to fulfill the major, minor, or research requirements of the PhD

Research Apprenticeship

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.

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Department of Management
Terry College of Business
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-6256
706-542-1294
706-542-3743 (fax)

GRADUATE COORDINATOR

Robert Vandenberg
412 Brooks Hall
706-542-3720
email