Exams
Upon successful completion of the Management Core Courses, students will be required to sit for a Preliminary Qualifying Examination. Students will not be allowed to begin coursework in a specialty area until this examination has been successfully passed. The purpose of this examination is to determine whether the student has achieved acceptable mastery over.
- Research in the general field of Management
- Basic research methods in Management.
Administration of the Exam
The Preliminary Qualifying Examination will be administered no later than June 15 of the year during which the Management Core Courses have been completed. The examination will consist of two, three hour written sessions normally conducted on the same day. Construction and administration of the examination will be the responsibility of a four person Qualifying Examination Committee. The Doctoral Program Coordinator will chair this committee. The other three members of the committee will be tenure track faculty members in Management and will be appointed by the Doctoral Program Coordinator in consultation with the Department Chairperson.
Performance
Students will be provided their Advisory Committee's decision about their performance on the Qualifying Exam in writing within two weeks of its administration. This letter will clearly communicate the decision of the Qualifying Examination Committee and provide sufficient detail to justify their decision. The committee will invite all tenure track faculty in Management to participate in the grading of the exam, but the ultimate decision about whether a student has passed or failed the exam rests with the examination committee. There will be no conditional passes on the examination.
One and only one attempt at passing the examination will be permitted. Students who do not successfully pass their Preliminary Qualifying Examination will be dismissed from the Ph.D. program in Management. In addition, any assistantship which the student is holding will not be renewed for the following academic year.
Specialty Area Exam
The purpose of the Management Specialty Area Examination is not to re-examine material covered in specific courses. Rather the purpose is to evaluate the student's command of the literature in an area of specialization. Because this area is expected to be the student's principle area of expertise in both teaching and research, the student should be prepared to demonstrate an intense understanding of conceptual and empirical issues pertinent to this sub-discipline within Management. As such, the student should have a comprehensive understanding of the existing literature in the specialty area and should be capable of integrating this literature into models that have theoretical significance and practical utility. Additionally, the student will be expected to have an ability to conceptualize and design sound, rigorous research to test these models.
Preparation and administration of the Management Specialty Area Examination are the responsibility of the student's Advisory Committee. Bauer College policies governing the "Comprehensive Examination Process" shall apply to the Management Specialty Area Examination.
Normally, specialty area exams shall be given during the first three weeks of the Fall semester. The exact administration dates for the exam are determined by the Doctoral Program Coordinator in consultation with the Advisory Committee Chairpersons for all students wishing to sit for a given administration of the exam.
Written Management Specialty Area Exam
All tenure track members of the Department of Management will be invited to participate in the development of the specialty area examination.The written specialty area examination shall be administered in one week on two non-consecutive days. Each day will consist of two 3-hour testing periods, normally to be scheduled from 9:00 am - 12:00 noon and from 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm.
All Management tenure track faculty shall also be given the opportunity to read and evaluate the written specialty area exams administered by the Department. The ultimate decision regarding the student's performance on the exam rests, however, with the Advisory Committee. A student must receive either a "pass" or "fail" on the basis of these evaluations. No conditional passes will be allowed. If a student fails the written specialty area exam, one retake of the entire written exam will be permitted. This retake must occur within three months from the time that feedback about the first written exam has been provided to the student. A second failure of the Specialty Area Exam will result in dismissal from the doctoral program in Management.
The decision of the Advisory Committee regarding a student's performance on the written portion of the Specialty Area Exam shall be provided to the student within two weeks of the completion of the exam. This decision will be communicated to the student in writing by the Chairperson of the Advisory Committee with copies to the BCB Office of Student Services and the Management Doctoral Program Coordinator.In the case of a fail, the letter shall cite the specific deficiencies warranting such action.In all cases detailed, written feedback about the student's performance on the examination shall be provided within a reasonable period of time (normally one week) after the decision as been communicated.
Oral Management Specialty Area Exam
For students receiving a pass on the specialty area written exam, the oral section of the examination shall be administered within two weeks after passing both the specialty area and any supporting field written exams. During the oral portion of the Management Specialty Area exam, students will be expected to cogently present the results of their six-hour Management Core Practicum research study. Should the student's presentation be evaluated as a "fail," one additional attempt at passing the oral portion of the specialty area exam will be permitted.If this second attempt is also evaluated as a "fail," then the student will be dismissed from the doctoral program in Management.
In all cases, the member of the Advisory Committee representing the student's supporting field will be invited to attend the oral portion of the specialty area exam.All CBA tenure-track faculty shall be invited to the oral portion of the exam and shall be given the opportunity to provide input to the evaluation made by the student's Advisory Committee.
An oral exam must be designated as a pass or fail.here shall be no conditional pass designation for this portion of the examination.The decision of the Advisory Committee shall be communicated to the student in writing within 24 hours of completion of the oral portion of the exam.As with the written portion of the examination, if the oral exam is considered a "fail," the letter communicating this decision will cite the specific deficiencies warranting such action.
