Service Management Jobs and MBA Programs in Missouri

There are many career and education opportunities for service worker managers in Missouri. In Missouri, there are currently 2,300 jobs for service worker managers and this is projected to grow by seven percent to 3,520 jobs by 2016. This growth falls short of the projected rise of the national job pool for service worker managers, which shows an increase of 15 percent over the next 10 years. In general, service worker managers supervise and coordinate activities of personal service workers.

Missouri photo by Andrew Selman

In Missouri, the income for service worker managers is $18 per hour or $37,000 per year. In the U.S. as a whole, their income is $18 hourly or $38,000 per year on average.

Nicknamed the Show Me State, Missouri is home to 5,987,580 people. It has seen its population grow by 7.0 percent over the last 10 years. The capital is Jefferson City. In 2008, there were a total of 3,672,794 jobs and at $36,356, the average annual income in Missouri was higher than the previous year's per capita figure of $35,120. The unemployment rate in Missouri was 9.3 percent in 2009. It rose by 3.2 percentage points from the previous year. Roughly 21.6 percent of state residents have college degrees. This falls short of the national average.

In Missouri, the top employers are in stationery supplies merchant wholesalers, specialized freight trucking, related equipment merchant wholesalers and used household goods moving.

While being known for many things, one of the most noteworthy, Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, Missouri is the largest beer producing plant in the nation. Missouri was the birthplace of several prominent figures such as President Harry S. Truman, who was born in Lamar, May 8, 1884.

Service Management

Service worker managers supervise and coordinate activities of personal service workers.

While working, they collaborate with staff members to plan and develop programs of events, schedules of activities, or menus. Also, they analyze and record personnel and operational data, and write related activity reports.

They are required to make use of strategies for learning about new situations and problems as they arise and note the reactions and responses of others in both work and social situations.

Service worker managers must be able to articulate ideas and problems. They should also have the ability to listen to and understand others in meetings.

In order to be successful in the workplace, service worker managers must have strong self control in the face of challenging situations and be able to deal with stress and deal with situations calmly.