Degrees, Certificates and Program Awards

The Management and Supervisory Development Department offers a comprehensive program for those desiring to advance within their organization, improve their resume to be more marketable, prepare for a career change, or to help them enhance their professional skills. Skills students of the Management/Supervisory Development Program develop include leadership, team building, innovation, conflict resolution, cultural awareness, budgeting, and project management. Transfer agreements are in place with 4-year colleges.

Degrees and Certificates

In this program you can earn the following:

  • Associate of Applied Science Degree: Management and Supervisory Development
  • One-Year Certificate: Management and Supervisory Development

See the PCC Catalog for information regarding program requirements.

Program Awards

See the PCC Catalog for information regarding program award requirements.

Management and Supervisory Development

Enhance an organization's ability to thrive in a diverse, rapidly changing, and increasingly global business environment by carrying out supervisory or managerial responsibilities in a manner that reflects professional standards and ethics, sustainability, and social responsibility.. 

Conflict Management

Strengthen organizational effectiveness by facilitating effective work relationships and resolving conflicts in a diverse workplace with skillful application of a broad range of communication skills.

Customer Service
Respond to diverse customer needs in an increasingly global environment by applying problem solving skills with a variety of customer service strategies to identify, assess, predict, and achieve customer expectations
Human Resource Management
Support the primary mission of an organization by using an understanding of the history, current practices, and legal aspects of human resources standards to make effective on-the-job supervisory and managerial decisions. 
Leadership

Build enterprise value by developing, leading, and motivating diverse teams to perform effectively in a rapidly changing marketplace.

Project Management
Strengthen an organization by developing goals, objectives, and flexible plans to manage and monitor project scope, resources, time schedules, and budgets for dynamic projects in alignment with company goals.
Change/Innovation Management

Innovate change as a change-leader to assist an organization in coping with a new, more challenging workplace by using an understanding of what causes change initiatives to fail and how to manage the human and technological challenges of change.

Note: A maximum of 9 one-credit MSD workshops may be used toward a program award, certificate or degree.

Make Your Experience Work for You

Cooperative Education for Management and Supervisory Development Students
These 4 college transferable credits (MSD 280A & 280B) are designed to allow an individual the opportunity to acquire college credit for current on-the-job learning. During the term the co-op credit is taken, the student must be training in a supervisory capacity or leading a project in which new management skills are being practiced. Up to 12 credits (3 terms) of Cooperative Education may be applied to the Associate Degree.

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