Business Management is ultimately about people. Leaders and Managers navigate through all the changes and obstacles a business faces during its life cycle. Competition, changing consumer demands, globalization, politics, downsizing, outsourcing, technology, raw material costs – all these and many more affect business daily. In Principles of Management, we will expose students to the concepts that effective managers use for decision-making, planning, organizing, staffing, controlling and leading people, processes, and assets in order to achieve optimal outcomes.