Course ID: | MGMT 4250. 3 hours. |
Course Title: | Productivity Management |
Course Description: | Personal, process, white collar, and organizational productivity concepts, issues, and measurements. Emphasizes combining these new management philosophies in achieving a competitive advantage of time, quality, and price and their impact on organizational profit. Constraint management and process management concepts are applied to support cross-functional problem identification, analysis, solution, and implementation. |
Oasis Title: | Productivity Management |
Prerequisite: | MGMT 3000 or MGMT 3000H or MGMT 3000E |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered every year. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | The objectives of this course are to provide:
An overview of performance measurement issues and new measurement
systems for service and manufacturing organizations.
A business systems model for viewing the relationships across
functions.
A problem identification, solution and implementation methodology
for personal, support function, and organizational problems.
Methods for improving service productivity.
A process management model for improving performance in white
collar support functions.
A systems improvement approach to designing and managing
transformation processes.
An analysis of the Traditional, Process Management, Just-In-Time
and Theory of Constraints approaches to productivity improvement. |
Topical Outline: | The following topics are covered in this course:
Organizational Efficiency
a. Process Design
b. Line Design
Organizational Effectiveness
a. Understanding What to Change
b. Understanding What to Change to
c. Understanding How to Change
Applications
a. Service Industry Company
b. Projects
c. Supply Chains
d. Manufacturing |
Honor Code Reference: | All students are responsible for maintaining the highest standards of
honesty and integrity in every phase of their academic careers. The
penalties for academic dishonesty are severe and ignorance is not an
acceptable defense.
Academic honesty means performing all academic work without plagiarizing,
cheating, lying, tampering, stealing, receiving assistance from any other
person or using any source of information that is not common knowledge. |