-Current issue chosen relevant to concentration
-Identify current trends and issues affecting the management in your concentration relevant to the issue
-Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of management tools and strategies supporting with academic peer-reviewed literature
-Describe and evaluate current trends to improve operations and quality within the field
-Discuss and evaluate policies and strategies currently used in the field
-Analyze customer response techniques and methods
-Explain the process of management decision making using appropriate models and emerging technologies.
-Discuss and evaluate leadership styles and their effectiveness
-Support arguments with information from scholarly literature
