COURSE SYLLABUS
WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
EIELSON AFB CAMPUS
Summer Semester 2006
May 30 to August 12, 2006
COURSE NUMBER & TITLE: Technical Management Operations
MGMT 4324
TIME: Thursday 6 pm
INSTRUCTOR: Ben Petersdorff
CONTACT INFORMATION: Home: 488-0804
EMAIL: petesplace@acsalaska.net
APPOINTMENTS: Available by appointment
LOCATION: Eielson AFB
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Quantitative tools and behavioral methods in long-range resource planning, policy determination, goal setting, development of tactics, and the establishment of strategies.
TEXTBOOK: Operations Management, Meeting Customers’ Demands, Edward M. Knod/Richard J. Schonberger
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
• Be able to describe basic management duties.
• Explore universal strategy, in which a company provides both differentiated output and low costs.
• Explain why downsizing, force plant closings and layoffs, create shot-term financial burdens.
• Understand why buyers and staff are the main action component of the purchasing effort.
• Explain what it means to buy intangibles.
• Explain why standardization may be the only way to make personalized design profitable.
• Describe the competitive benefits of TQM.
• Describe the travel authorization process.
• Be able to describe facilities management
• Follow quick changeover projects.
CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES: Four major methods will be utilized in the class to facilitate the students’ understanding the subject: l) Lecture to keynote major findings in subject, 2) Readings to further elaborates on subject, 3) Presentations and films, and 4) Films and field trips.
COURSE EXPECTATIONS
Attendance: Attendance is required. Excessive late arrivals or early departures will be taken into consideration. Material will be discussed in class and included in the exam that is not in the book. It is the students’ responsibility to obtain any material missed by not attending class for any reason. The student must not miss any more than 25% of the class. Any more misses may result in failure of the class. In case of TDY’s the instructor should be notified as soon as possible.
Readings : Assigned readings are to be completed prior to the class session for which they are assigned.
Plagiarism Policy: Intellectual integrity and truthfulness are fundamental to scholarship. Scholars, whether they are performing as students or as teachers, are engaged in a search for truth. Plagiarism is a form of cheating and also a form of theft. Plagiarism occurs when a student fails to give proper credit when information is either quoted or paraphrased. Carelessness is no excuse. As such, it is a breach of scholarly responsibility. It is also unethical and in some cases, illegal. Looking at or copying someone else’s test, answer sheet, and/or paper are counted as cheating. Plagiarism may result in an “F” in the course.
Disability Policy: It is the university policy that no otherwise qualified disable person be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any educational program or activity in the university.
Course Evaluation
Grading scale
A = 90 – 100%
B = 80 – 89%
C = 70 – 79%
D = 60 – 69%
F = Below 60%
I = For Incomplete
W = For Withdrawal
Grading Weight (based on 100 points possible)
Exam 1 = Test score x25% +____ points
Exam 2 = Test score x25% = ____points
Homework x10% = ____points
Participation x10% = ____points
Paper x30% = ____points
Grand Total = ____points
MGMT 4325
Course Outline
(Tentative Schedule)
Week 1 – Course Introduction, overview, course requirements, and administrative issues.
Week 2 – Chapters 1-2
Week 3 – Chapter 3
Week 4 – Chapter 4
Week 5 – Chapters 5 & 6
Mid term will be handed out
Topic Due
Week 6 – Chapters 7 & 8
Mid term due
Week 7 – Chapter 9
Week 8 – Chapters 10 & 11
Week 9 – Chapters 12 - 14
Week 10 – Chapters 15 & 16
Final will be handed out
Week 11 – Final due
Paper due
Chapter 17