As your first year draws to a close, you'll take an important professional step and declare a concentration in at least one of our principal fields of business. A management concentration will teach you how to manage people, projects, and programs effectively. You'll learn how to diagnose and deal with human and organizational dynamics.<br>Effective managers must understand how the business operates and demonstrate strong interpersonal abilities and ethical behaviors. With this concentration, you'll explore the principles of leadership, motivation, negotiation, conflict resolution, project management and their impacts on business results, team dynamics, and organizational change.<br>This concentration pairs well with other D'Amore-McKim concentrations such as finance, marketing, and supply chain, among others.<br>Managing—whether it’s people, projects, or programs—is challenging and requires a considerable range of knowledge and skills. Effective managers must know the business, be interpersonally competent, behave ethically, and diagnose and deal with human and organizational dynamics. The aim of the management concentration is to increase both managerial knowledge and management skills. This involves both studying and practicing topics such as motivation, leadership, negotiation, conflict resolution, project management, managing teams, organizational change, and their impact on business results. <br><br>Management concentrators participate in vibrant co-op experiences spanning a diverse range of business functions, such as business analytics, human resources, client and sales support, and project management. Many students who concentrate in management decide to get a second concentration, giving them the ability to work in teams and manage other people in whatever arena they find themselves.