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Minor
An 18-credit business minor focused on managing people — organizational behavior, leadership, and human resources — for students preparing to lead teams in any field.
People-Focused
Organizational Behavior + HR Management required
Leadership Built In
BUS 404 Principles of Leadership in core
For Future Team Leaders
Ministry, nonprofit, education, business
ACU’s Management Minor is the people-focused option in ACU’s family of business-school minors. Where the Business Minor stays broad across the five functional areas and the Marketing Minor goes deep on marketing, the Management Minor goes deep on the human side of business — leading teams, building organizational culture, managing employees, and developing the kind of leadership that lasts.
The 18-credit minor pairs business fundamentals (BUS 101 Introduction to Business, ACC 223 Principles of Accounting, BUS 404 Principles of Leadership, MGT 340 Principles of Management) with two upper-division management courses (MGT 342 Organizational Behavior and MGT 440 Human Resource Management). You leave with the working command of accounting and finance any leadership role assumes, plus serious preparation for the people-management work most jobs actually involve.
Pairs especially naturally with Communication, Christian Ministries, Education, Music Ministry, Political Science, and any major where leading people is part of where you’re headed.
Apply Principles of Management
Work through the foundational practices of managing — planning, organizing, leading, controlling.
Lead With Purpose
Engage the principles of leadership that distinguish effective leaders from frustrating ones.
Understand Organizational Behavior
Study how individuals, groups, and structures behave inside organizations — motivation, communication, conflict, change.
Manage Human Resources
Build the working knowledge of hiring, developing, evaluating, and retaining employees that HR roles assume.
Read the Financial Side
Develop accounting literacy so you can read budgets, financial statements, and the numbers any leadership role eventually encounters.
A Biblical Worldview takes management seriously — both as work done among real people and as a vocation that requires the same character qualities Scripture calls leaders to.
Management as Service
At its best, management serves the people doing the work, the customers being served, and the organization's broader purposes. A Biblical Worldview reframes management not as control but as stewardship — caring for what's been entrusted to you, including the people you lead.
Equips you to evaluate management decisions by who they actually serve.
Leadership as Character
Scripture takes leadership seriously as a matter of character first, skill second. BUS 404 Principles of Leadership treats that conviction as central rather than peripheral — the kind of leader you become matters more than the techniques you learn."
Anchors your leadership development in patient character formation.
Image-Bearers in the Workplace
Every employee, contractor, vendor, and customer is an image-bearer of God. A Biblical Worldview takes that seriously — meaning the way managers talk to people, make decisions about them, and treat them in difficult moments matters far beyond efficiency.
Grounds your HR and management work in respect for the humanity of everyone in your sphere.
Management is one of the most universally useful minors — it strengthens nearly any career where leading people is part of the job.
Team Lead or Supervisor
Step into team-lead and supervisor roles with formal management training behind you.
Human Resources Professional
Move into HR coordinator, HR generalist, or HR business partner roles via MGT 440 and the broader management foundation.
Church and Ministry Operations
Lead operational, administrative, and staff-management work in churches, parachurch organizations, and Christian nonprofits.
Christian School Administration
Bring management literacy into Christian school leadership, especially when paired with Education.
Nonprofit and Mission Leadership
Serve in mission and ministry organizations that need leaders fluent in both vision and people-management.
Small Business and Family-Business Leadership
Step into small-business or family-business management with formal preparation for the people side of the work.
The Management Minor at ACU is the people-focused business minor — built for students who'll spend their careers leading teams and developing employees.
Organizational Behavior Required
MGT 342 Organizational Behavior is mandatory — the discipline that studies how people actually act inside organizations.
Human Resource Management Built In
MGT 440 HR Management is required, not optional. Most management minors leave HR as a floating elective.
Leadership in the Core
BUS 404 Principles of Leadership pairs with MGT 340 Principles of Management — the leadership/management distinction that experienced practitioners actually use.
Accounting Foundation Included
ACC 223 ensures you graduate with the financial literacy any management role assumes.
Same Faculty as the BS Business Administration
Management Minor students sit in the same courses with the same professors as ACU's business majors.
The Management Minor has a clear prerequisite chain — BUS 101 first, then MGT 340 before the upper-division MGT courses.
Talk With Your Academic Advisor
Map the 18 credits into your degree plan with attention to the BUS 101 → MGT 340 → MGT 342/440 prerequisite chain.
Take BUS 101 Early
BUS 101 Introduction to Business unlocks ACC 223 and MGT 340. Schedule it freshman or sophomore year.
View BUS 101Add MGT 340 Sophomore or Junior Year
MGT 340 Principles of Management is the prerequisite for both MGT 342 and MGT 440 — take it before your senior year.
Finish With MGT 342 and MGT 440
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management are the minor's capstone-style courses. Save them for junior or senior year.
The Management Minor gives you the people-focused business preparation team leadership actually requires. Apply or reach out today.
