The Management & Entrepreneurship Career Cluster involves skills and occupations that are essential across all industries, focusing on business administration, operations optimization, strategic planning, workforce management, and entrepreneurship. It merges key areas such as data management and analysis, human resources, general operations, administrative support, project management, and organizational leadership. This Cluster ensures that businesses across all industries efficiently meet their goals, adapt to market changes, and maintain competitive advantage. By emphasizing entrepreneurship, this Cluster supports the creation of new ventures, driving economic growth and innovation and making it a cornerstone of modern economies.

The Employability Skills for Career Readiness Standards must be an integrated component of all CTE course sequences.

• Employability Skills for Career Readiness Standards

The Business Management program provides students with the overall principles of business management. Areas of study include economics, budgeting, human resource management, operations, strategic management, and financial-based decision making.

• Program Standards – Business Management with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)
• Supplemental Program Resources – Business Management with Complementary Course Standards (pdf)

Office Management focuses on careers that plan, organize, direct, and evaluate all or part of a business organization through the allocation and use of financial, human, and material resources.

• Program Standards – Office Management (pdf)
• Supplemental Program Resources – Office Management (pdf)