Operations Management

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• principles and concepts of operations management;
• current issues and possible future directions of operations management.
• core operations techniques and approaches used;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• develop teamwork on practical cases of operations management;
• critically analyse and evaluate on operations performance and strategy, supply network design, process redesign;
• problem solve on location issues, scheduling;
• develop written and oral communication skills through in class group discussion and case report writing;
• computer skills on suitable software to solve operations question.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• critically analyse and evaluate the advantage and disadvantage of different techniques and approaches of operations management.
• apply techniques and approaches of operations management to solve practical operations management problems;

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Class Exercise

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: - Questions and answers during lectures and classes. - Class discussions with tutors and peers. - Oral feedback on class/in-session exercise. - Responses to questions by emails or in office hours. - Critical conversations: preparing for the assignment.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.