About the Organizational Management Department 

The Organizational Management Department (known as OGM on campus) was begun for the purpose of training students to be effective managers and leaders in any organization.  Our faculty boasts many professors who have been or are currently in the business world.  This is a plus as it brings “real world” experience into the classroom where students can take advantage of those whose knowledge goes beyond the pages of the textbook.

Classes in the OGM Department are offered throughout the week, both during the day and at nighttime.  This allows students who have daytime jobs to come to class at night with the added advantage of using “just learned” principles in the workplace or organization.  The successful OGM student will find his/her way to a bachelor’s of arts (B.A.) degree.

Students taking the OGM major at Patten University have been successful in such areas as:  the business world, church or mission, education, and government.  In essence, the business courses offered by Patten University can translate to jobs in businesses and other organizations.  The value for any working person in the East Bay is the proximity of the university, the cost, and the ability to take courses that do not conflict with work schedules.

Course Work

On the way to a degree in organizational management, the Patten student will take courses in the following:

Financial Accounting:  Introduces bookkeeping with an emphasis on skill development for cash accrual, closing entries, cash controls, bank reconciliation and procedures in the accounting cycle.

Microeconomics:  Studies the economic behavior of consumers, firms and industries along with the distribution of income and production with a focus on economic decisions made at low levels affecting price determination and distribution.

Leadership in Organizational and Business Management:  Explains the fundamentals of leadership using past and modern models, provides case studies where different leadership styles have been used effectively, and helps the student develop a concept of the leader within.

Management Theories and Practices:  Explores what motivates workers, how managers manage and how managers can effectively tap into the best resources of the worker for the organization’s ultimate success in a competitive business world.

Organizational and Business Communication:  Shows how communication occurs in organizations and assists the student in learning and practicing the best communication, problem-solving, and conflict resolution skills to bring about efficiency in the workplace.

Research Methodology:  Introduces and provides an overview of research methods used in business management, including methods of analysis for managerial problems.

Business Law and Ethics:  Examines areas of law that affect both profit and non-profit organizations, including torts, sales contracts, secured transactions, bankruptcy and criminal law. 

Managerial Economics:  Introduces the student to economic theory, supply and demand, capital, market failure, market regulations and monopoly, money, macroeconomics, income determination and the Gross Domestic Product.

Marketing Management:  Assists the student in learning and applying such marketing principles as:  market demand, product design, buyer behavior, customer satisfaction, market segmentation, competition, global marketing, product branding, distribution channels, pricing, and sales promotions to the business world.

Managerial Finance:  Overviews basic financial principles, and tools to enhance the manager’s skills in statement analysis for stock price, valuations for merger, or running a business.

Human Resource Management:  Studies the evolution of human resources to its current form of being a prominent decision maker in an organization’s strategic plan and includes the traditional disciplines found in human resources, such as training, labor relations, discipline, recruiting, retention, benefit plans, dispute resolution and global human resources.

Strategic Planning:  Teaches elements and approaches for developing and implementing a strategic plan to successfully carry out an organization’s mission are studied with an emphasis on carrying out the plan with proper feedback and appropriate changes.

Integrated Management Project:  Summarizes all the learning of an OGM major through a student research and presentation project and brings to bear the student’s overall learning, skills, and abilities achieved in the program.

Organizational Management Core Requirements

Summary of Organizational Management Major