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Are you contemplating graduate school to pursue a MBA? Whether you’re looking to enhance your skills, choose a new career path, or simply expand your horizons, pursuing an MBA can be a transformative experience.
Spend a few minutes browsing job advertisements, and you’ll likely notice that two skills appear frequently in the lists of required skills: leadership and management. These abilities are in high demand across careers and industries. Find out how to stand out as an effective leader and manager.
Explore the job market's intricacies, industry-specific salaries and the unique benefits of an MBA.
Managers can boost employees' job satisfaction, and more importantly, promote equity and social justice, by creating initiatives and policies that advance DEI. This article explores best practices and strategies for fostering an inclusive culture that values diversity.
You can set yourself up for career and business success by developing the right knowledge and skills while networking. Even if you're already working a full-time job, you'll want to integrate some of these tasks to your to-do list to get ahead. This guide covers the top tips and strategies to advance your business career and achieve your goals.
Goals are an important motivator. Measuring employees' work gives them set parameters so that they understand performance expectations. Proper goal setting can boost employee engagement, which in turn improves the individual employee performance that will benefit the organization as a whole.
Everyone wants to make a first good impression. Your MBA application is an opportunity to showcase your best skills and prove why you’re a stellar candidate for business school.
As a consumer, you consider a broad range of factors when you shop for products and services. If you’re like many Americans, you might also research a company’s business ethics and values before making purchasing decisions. Learn about business ethics and corporate social responsibility from the business side of things with Marquette.
Everyone has a personal moral code that shapes their everyday behavior. You make ethical decisions when you choose where to shop, what to eat, how you interact with others, and much more. People often don’t think of corporations as moral or immoral, but companies also consider ethics when making decisions and implementing policies. But why are ethics important in business?
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs have exploded in popularity in recent years. Many companies have taken steps to create more welcoming and fair workplace cultures. However, cultivating a truly diverse and inclusive workplace takes time and a sustained effort. Companies often need to revamp many practices and policies to genuinely support their DEI goals.
Adopting ethical business practices takes time, dedication, and often money. But doing the right thing has many benefits. This article covers the definition of ethical business practices, methods to apply these principles in the workplace, and why business ethics matter.
As the world of artificial intelligence (AI) expands, so do the ethical questions surrounding its use. In 2023, AI has the potential to transform businesses in numerous ways, enabling them to operate more efficiently, make better decisions, and provide better experiences to their customers.
What makes a good leader? Being a good leader is about a lot more than being put in charge–it requires a level of self awareness, confidence, strategic thinking and an ability to make a positive impact with whatever resources they have.
“Leadership is often called both an art and a science.” So begins a recent paper co-authored by Marquette University’s Dr. Jay L. Caulfield.
Kristie Rogers, MBA, Ph.D., associate professor of management, Marquette University, was named to Poets&Quants 2022 list of Best Undergraduate Professors. Dr. Rogers has been teaching courses and facilitating workshops for more than a decade and her research focuses on respect at work and how we build our identities through our work. Learn more about Dr. Rogers and her award at our blog.
Effectively addressing discrimination in the workplace is a critical business competency taught by leading management researchers and practitioners, including Jennica Webster, Ph.D., of the Marquette online Master in Management (MiM) program. Read an overview of federal workplace discrimination laws and an abstract of Dr. Webster's recent Oxford Research Encyclopedia article.
Diversity is a hugely important topic within contemporary work culture. Whether an organization has a goal of increasing workforce diversity through different hiring practices, or individual employees are pushing for greater inclusion of different identities in day-to-day practices, the best managers of today's workplaces will be familiar with all aspects of creating a diverse workplace.
Before the pandemic, nearly a quarter of the workforce in the United States worked from home at least a portion of the time. So, while the challenges of managing remote employees are more prevalent than before, they're not entirely new. When it comes down to it, effectively managing remote teams relies on many of the same tenets and hard skills as in-person management. What needs to shift is the manager's frame of thinking and approach to handling a diverse group of employee needs and expectations.
It's hard to deny that the salary for a position will often make or break your decision to take the job. Check out this blog for a more specific idea of how much you can make in different industries with an MBA.
Change is difficult. It’s an adage that’s tossed around for decades and speaks to something many of us know personally: change is difficult. No matter if it’s a self-imposed change or implementing a change for a large group. While transitions involve many cut-and-dry logistics, they also often will cause an emotional stir in employees. That’s where organizational change management (OCM) comes in.