This cluster encompasses planning, organizing, directing, and evaluating the business functions essential to efficient and productive business operations. Business Management and Administrative career opportunities are available in every sector of the economy.
The Business Management and Administration Career Cluster is divided into five pathways. Pathways are grouped by the knowledge and skills required of occupations in these career fields. Each pathway provides instruction as a basis for sucess in an array of careers and educational pursuits.
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The list below focuses on planning and management. It includes the following areas: administrative support, information processing, accounting, human resources and other related management support services. This cluster encompasses planning, organizing, directing, and evaluating the business functions essential to efficient and productive business operations. Business Management and Administrative career opportunities are available in every sector of the economy. Click on the link below to download a Career Plan of Study for 2008-2009. |
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| Administrative Procedures I
Provides an advanced and in-depth study of concepts and skills in various systems and administrative procedures that enable a worker to manage or function in the workplace; enhances technology skills and oral and written language skills relating to effective communications; emphasizes planning and organizing work, establishing priorities, records and information management, and operation of equipment; and serves as the major vehicle for cooperative education. |
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| Administrative Procedures II
Provides an advanced and in-depth study of concepts and skills in various systems and administrative procedures that enable a worker to manage or function in the workplace; enhances technology skills and oral and written language skills relating to effective communications; emphasizes planning and organizing work, establishing priorities, records and information management, and operation of equipment; and serves as the major vehicle for cooperative education. |
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| Business Communications
Develops reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills for effective communication in business situations; develops the ability to send and receive clear and complete oral, written, and electronic messages; emphasizes the mechanics of word usage, sentence structure, organizat0ion of ideas, and composition of various types of messages; and includes experiences in listening and responding. Course is approved for English IV credit in the minimum graduation program. |
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| Business Ethics (1/2 Unit) (BUSETHCS) |
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| Business Law
Introduces law and the origins and necessity of the legal system; provides insight into the evolution and development of laws that govern business in our society; develops an understanding of how organization and operation of the legal system impact business; develops an understanding of rights and duties within the business environment; and includes contractual responsibility, protection of individual rights in legal relationships relative to warranties, product liability, secured and unsecured debts, negotiable instruments, agencies, employer-employee relations, property ownership and transfer, landlord and tenant, wills and estates, community property, social security, and taxation. |
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| Business Ownership
Provides the prospective entrepreneur a theoretical base as well as practical and proven techniques for planning, organizing, and operating a business; includes planning and strategy concepts, financial and organizational considerations, market analysis and customer development, operations management, accounting and financial controls, and other components of entrepreneurship. [To be eligible for articulated college credit, the student must also take Business management - TP.] |
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| Business Support Systems
Introduces practical business procedures; develops foundation for competent business participation and self-sufficiency in today’s world; develops flexibility and adaptability for the rapidly changing business environment and other skills necessary for success in the workforce; reinforces reading, writing, and calculating skills; and develops effective communications and information management using emerging technology, including telecommunications. |
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| International Business
Introduces concepts of the global market and economy and international trade; examines operations in a global market; provides an opportunity to study cultural differences and effects of differences on managerial practices and international law; the impact of international trade on the domestic and global economy; and examines planning, organizational structure, finance, marketing, and foreign governmental practices. |
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| Introduction to Business
Introduces the role of business in the lives of individuals, consumers, workers, and citizens; provides an overview of economic systems with emphasis on the free enterprise system, and the American economy; explores the characteristics of businesses; explores international business, government’s role in business, technology in the business setting, and legal and ethical business issues; examines consumer issues regarding money and money management, banking system and services, paychecks and taxes relating to decisions, rights and responsibilities, and competencies of an individual; develops an awareness of the job market and opportunities including entrepreneurial; develops an understanding of the workplace and workforce, and assists in the development of a career plan based on self-inventory; and examines and develops employment skills needed when applying for a job. |
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