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Year 2 Mgt. & Industrial Relns.
Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: Mr S. Johnston
Prerequisite: None (Note: Entry to this subject is restricted to students who have completed 75 points of first year subjects. )
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- describe and analyse the role of the operations function in a business enterprise;
- identify the tasks, tools and underlying principles of modern operations management;
- apply this knowledge to specific case studies in the manufacturing and service sectors.
Content:
The role of operations; the link between strategy and operations; productivity; decisions in the operations area; planning and control of inventory, projects and the transformation process including Total Quality Management, Just-In-Time systems, kanban and 'lean production' systems.
Assessment:
A 2-hour end-of-semester examination (60%), and assignments totalling 3,000 words (40%).
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