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Managing Business Operations - MAN00120M

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  • Department: The York Management School
  • Module co-ordinator: Information currently unavailable
  • Credit value: 15 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2021-22

Module summary

This module focuses upon operations management and how the interplay between strategy and operations is managed.

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Online Teaching Window 1 2021-22

Module aims

This module covers the activities of modern operations management and examines how business strategy affects business operations.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of this module, students should be able to:

  • Appreciate the impact of strategic decisions on the management of business operations

  • Select and effectively apply a range of complex tools and techniques underpinning contemporary business operations to achieve innovative solutions

  • Examine problems and issues critically and in detail using the main theoretical perspectives, tools and techniques underpinning contemporary business operations and evaluate the methods, process and outcomes by which new innovative solutions or actions emerge

  • Consider the various approaches that may be adopted in the design, organisation and quality assurance of products within a range of business processes;

  • Develop an enhanced practical knowledge of the techniques and technologies for the operation and control of operations systems in the contemporary organisational environment

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Real World Issue Analysis		 N/A 30
Essay/coursework
Real World Issue Analysis		 N/A 70

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Reflective piece		 N/A 100

Module feedback

In accordance with UYMS policy.

Indicative reading

Dan, R.R. and Sanders, N.R. (2015). Operations Management. John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Krajewski, L.J., Malhotra, M.K. and Ritzman, L.P. (2016). Operations management. Processes and supply chains. Boston: Pearson.

Slack, N. and Brandon-Jones, A. (2019). Operations Management. 9th ed. Harlow, England ; New York: Pearson.


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