What do you learn in the Faculty of Business Administration?
In order to understand what the Faculty of Business Administration is, we must understand what the Faculty of Business Administration deals with. Business administration is a discipline that considers how to effectively allocate / utilize the management resources of people, goods, money, and information possessed by a company to enrich the company. There is a business school (master's degree) as a high-ranking educational institution in the Faculty of Business Administration, and "MBA (Master of Business Administration)" is famous in the world for training specialists in business administration.
What is business administration in the first place?
By the way, there are two typical research areas in business administration handled by the Faculty of Business Administration. A famous phrase left by business scholar Alfred Chandler is the teaching that "organizations follow strategy." There are various views on the interpretation of this word with the times, but at least this word suggests the fact that management must care about "organization" and "strategy", and from there the following two Two words were born.
• Management strategy
• Organizational strategy
Both of them are like the front and back of a coin, so you have to understand both in order to understand business administration. Ideally, you should take both courses in the curriculum of the Faculty of Business Administration, but here I would like to explain a little more about business strategy.
What is a business strategy?
In the first place, strategy is a discipline that was born to win the war so that the origin can be traced to the "military method" of the Son and the "war theory" of Clausewitz. Modern companies are not fighting with weapons, but in fact they are fighting against rival companies by making the most of their assets as weapons. At that time, business scholars thought about how to advance the battle in an advantageous way.
• Positioning theory
• Resource-based theory
The former is an idea spread by Professor ME Porta of Harvard University, a well-known business scholar, who seeks a competitive advantage over rival companies in the environment (position) where the company is located, and the idea is world-class from numerous empirical studies. Was predominant. However, if there is a difference in the performance of two companies that adopt the same position, there is also a weakness that positioning theory can not explain, and business scholar Jay B. Bernie who advocated the latter gave a competitive advantage to the company. It was highly convincing in terms of the internal resources (resources) of the company, and contributed to the development of business administration.
In business administration, the fact that "business administration has various perspectives" is more important than the fact that either of these ideas is correct, and it is not business administration that seeks one correct answer, and if that is the case. If there is such an answer, it will be uninteresting as an academic discipline.
What is the difference between the Faculty of Business Administration and the Faculty of Economics?
Now, in order to understand the difference from the "Faculty of Economics" that is often heard in the Faculty of Business Administration, it is very easy to understand what business administration and economics were born for. Business administration is a discipline for "corporate management", and basically it is a discipline for thinking about how to enrich the company from the perspective of the manager (president). On the other hand, economics is a discipline for thinking about how to prosperly develop national-level subjects like the "Japanese economy." Of course, there may be other explanation methods than the above, but even university students may not be able to explain the difference between business administration and economics, so please be aware of this.
What is the difference between business administration and commerce?
Then, can you tell the difference between business administration and commerce? Both are common in that the subject of research is "company", but while business administration discusses / analyzes all management resources possessed by companies such as people, goods, money, and chie, commerce is only for goods and money. The point is that they tend to discuss deeply. In other words, areas such as accounting, taxation, and finance. In these areas, the knowledge required by professionals such as accountants, tax accountants, and FPs is systematically handled, so it can be separated from business administration.
Characteristics of the Faculty of Business Administration
The biggest feature of the Faculty of Business Administration at Nagoya University of Commerce is that there are many faculty members with a wealth of practical experience. The overwhelming majority of faculty members have actual experience in various industries, such as those who have experience in corporate management, management consultants, and registered management consultants. Therefore, the content of the lecture is different from that of the Faculty of Business Administration of other universities in that the lecture content is given with more realistic examples than the academic content.
Studying in the Faculty of Business Administration
In the first year, students mainly take liberal arts courses, and in the second year, specialized basic courses begin. Then, in the 3rd and 4th years, students will take specialized courses, and in the specialized courses of the Faculty of Business Administration, they will study a wide range of perspectives on corporate management. Finally, I will write a bachelor thesis as the culmination of four years of study. In job hunting, you are often asked what kind of theme you wrote your graduation thesis during the interview, so you can get information on companies and industries that are conscious of employment by checking newspaper articles on a daily basis. However, the habit of thinking from the perspective of the manager is indispensable.
Employment record of Faculty of Business Administration
The employment rate of graduates of the Faculty of Business Administration is 97.4% (FY2013), which is a high employment rate nationwide. Furthermore, about 90% of the unofficial candidates were evaluated as having "satisfied" employment. The Faculty of Business Administration develops "human resources who can be managed as executives in the future" required by companies by studying practical business administration under the guidance of faculty members with abundant practical experience. The high employment rate of the Faculty of Business Administration is a testament to the recognition of many companies. The graduates are employed in a wide range of fields such as "retail", "service", "wholesale", and "information and communication", and are active as specialists in each industry.
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
This degree is given to those who have completed graduate school education (business school) related to business administration. MBA is an abbreviation of Master of Business Administration, and it can be said that it is a professional in corporate management, and in Europe and the United States, many managers involved in corporate management have acquired it. In Japan as well, due to industry restructuring and globalization of human resources, MBA acquisition has become strongly conscious in recent years. Approximately 8,000 students attend business schools aiming for an MBA, of which 6% attend business schools at Nagoya University of Commerce, where business administration education is provided to support the next generation of Japanese companies
Faculty of Business Ranking
The news often covers how many Japanese universities are ranked in the top 100 university rankings in the world, but there are many indicators in the university rankings, each of which has its own characteristics. For example, "Times Higher Education" is famous for rankings for general universities, and "Financial Times" is famous for ranking business schools, which are graduate schools following the Faculty of Business Administration. And "eduniversal" is one of the rankings that evaluate the overall university education related to business administration education. These rankings are completely different from the so-called deviation values that measure the academic ability (knowledge amount) of high school students before enrollment, and a mechanism for graduates, teachers, and companies to comprehensively evaluate what kind of education and research is being conducted. Is. This includes salary after graduation and international recognition of the university, and it can be said that it is a multifaceted and highly evaluated evaluation than the university ranking that Japanese people think.
Faculty of Business Administration in Japan
The Faculty of Business Administration was first established in Japan at Kobe University in 1949. More than 60 universities now have a faculty of business administration. In many cases, it is composed of one department, and when the Faculty of Business Administration is composed of multiple departments, it is proof that we are focusing on business administration education, and which aspect of business administration is emphasized is the department composition. Will appear in. The following shows the representative departments of the Faculty of Business Administration in Japan.
New way of learning business administration << Case method >>
An educational method called "active learning" is currently receiving a lot of attention as a way of learning business administration. Participants are not regular exams based on memory, but in a style that is evaluated by the degree of contribution to lectures and groups, all teaching materials are based on actual cases called case methods, and what do participants think if they are the parties concerned? ?? To discuss. There are few cases in Japan where such full-scale active learning is practiced throughout the Faculty of Business Administration, and we accept visits from high school teachers from all over the country, including television and magazines. The educational goal of the Faculty of Business Administration is "cultivation of attitude as a leader", and this goal, which could not be achieved by classroom lectures, is realized by the case method.