{"id":1642,"date":"2017-06-21T16:26:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T10:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/?page_id=1642"},"modified":"2025-06-17T06:56:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T01:26:17","slug":"about-the-department","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/about\/about-the-department\/","title":{"rendered":"45 Years of Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"su-dropcap su-dropcap-style-flat\" style=\"font-size:1.5em\">E<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">stablished in <strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">1980<\/span><\/strong>, our Department is the pioneer in Business Management Education within the Sri Lankan university system.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We offer a globally competitive four-year honours degree in Business Management, a <span style=\"color: #800000;\">BSc Honours in Business Administration<\/span>, a three-year external degree, a <span style=\"color: #800000;\">BSc Business Studies (General) External<\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> Degree,<\/span> and an <span style=\"color: #800000;\">MPhil (Business)<\/span>. Moreover, we offer courses across a broad range of subjects,\u00a0including\u00a0<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Management, Organisational Behaviour, Strategy, and International Business.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Our Department members are active in research across broad areas of Management and Organisation Studies. In order to enrich the research culture of the Department, the Department has organised its research activities under three clusters: <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>the Cluster for\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Organisation &amp; Society <\/em><em>(<\/em><em>COS<\/em><em>)<\/em><em>, the Cluster for Leadership &amp; Strategy <\/em><em>(<\/em><em>CLaS<\/em><em>)<\/em>, and <em>the Cluster for<\/em><em> Knowledge Management &amp; Business Innovation <\/em><em>(<\/em><em>CKMBI<\/em>). <\/span>The research clusters provide a scholarly platform for local and global researchers as well as the members of the Department to share their ideas and work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stablished in 1980, our Department is the pioneer in Business Management Education within the Sri Lankan university system.\u00a0We offer a globally competitive four-year honours degree in Business Management, a BSc Honours in Business Administration, a three-year external degree, a BSc Business Studies (General) External Degree, and an MPhil (Business). Moreover, we offer courses across a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1642","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4581,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1642\/revisions\/4581"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgt.sjp.ac.lk\/bus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}