THE DYNAMICS AND DECISION MAKING PROCESS OF CONDUCTING POST-GRADUATE STUDY IN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Year 2016, Volume: 3 Issue: 1, 107 - 119, 01.04.2016

Kamaludin Kamaludin Berto Usman

https://doi.org/10.17261/Pressacademia.2016116567

Abstract

This research is officially intended to investigate the dynamic alteration relating to the knowledge of management fields, particularly in responding the unpredictable changes of either internal or external environments. Besides, we employ the quantitative and qualitative approaches in discovering the triggering factors cause the non-management students conducting their study in the graduate, and post graduate school of management. We use 80 respondents comprise of 30 students who study in Doctoral program and 50 students from Master program. This sample is meticulously selected by implementing judgement sampling method and involving students who have nonlinear background referring to management studies. Hereby, we note that there are various types of reasons from the respondents to commence their study in management program (Master and Doctoral). These all factors are regarding to students’ decisions, process, tuition fee, social economics background, motivation, facilities, references, reputations, and the products offered by the service provider. We inferred that the main factor which makes the management program become more interesting and remarkably growth than the other fields of study, is relating to its ability in responding the significant changes of internal or external needs of users. Also, the social science knowledge obviously performs the dynamics alteration in various perspectives, especially in terms of human resource management, operational and production, marketing, finance, information system, and service sector. Therefore, management program seems to be more interesting and shows promising progress with respect to the origin of social science.
Keywords: Management, decisions, quality, process, motivation, reputation.
JEL Classification: M10

Keywords

Management, decisions, quality, process, motivation, reputation

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