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Learning Objectives
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The course focuses upon typical problems in large companies and companies with direct, foreign investments. During a series of seminars, the complexity of the management of international affairs will be explored, analysed and discussed. The course does not concentrate on a single issue, but discusses various themes and problems. Strategic as well as operational managerial activities will be analysed.
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Marking Scale
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7-step scale
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Censorship
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External examiners
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Exam Period
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May/June
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Individual oral exam (20 minutes per student including votation) on the basis of an individual or group written synopsis (for one student: maximum five A4 pages; for 2-4 students: maximum eight A4 pages). The examination will cover both the synopsis itself and the theory applied. Students will be evaluated on the basis of the oral examination, cf. The General Degree Regulation § 27 S. (4). The exam is external and the evaluation will be carried out by both a teacher and an external examiner cf. General Degree Regulations § 25, S. (1) no.2. The students will be graded individually. The regular exam will be held in May/June 2011. The synopsis due date and the date for the oral exam based on the synopsis will be announced by the secretariat.
The make-up/re-exam takes place in June/July 2011. If a student is ill during the regular oral exam, he/she will be able to re-use group synopsis at the make-up/re-exam. If the student was ill during the writing of the synopsis and did not contribute to synopsis, the make-up/re-exam synopsis can be written individually or in groups (provided that other students are taking the exam). If the student did not pass the regular exam a new or revised project, confer advice from the examiner at the regular exam, must be handed in to a new deadline specified by the line secretariat |
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Examination
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Oral exam based on a synopsis. 1 student max. 5 pages and 2-4 students max. 8 pages.
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Prerequisites for Attending the Exam
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Course Content
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In this course, "Management of Operations" is primarily seen as a question of management control as managerial technologies are mobilised to enable co-ordination across time and space in international firms. Thus, Managing International Operations is oriented towards examining the configurations of interrelations between strategy and organisation, and the managerial technologies that make them work in a routinely manner.
The scope of operations management spans the entire set of internal and external processes in order to deliver customized solutions to their customers and consumers (b2b and/or b2c). Complexity increases when operations management is performed on a global level. The decision framework consists of certain global environmental variables such as product/process design, technology transfer, facility location, sourcing and infrastructure.
Some of the central issues of the course are:
The concepts global operations management
Structuring global operations process networks (= supply/demand chains)
Design of inter-organizational relationships and business processes
Operations management information systems
Operations philosophies (JIT, TQM, BPR)
Product Design
Project Management
Performance measurement of OM |
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Literature
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Slack, N., Chambers, S. and Johnston, R (2007). Operations Management. 6th Edition. Prentice Hall.
Additional readings are assigned during the course. |
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