Course director: Dr Nick Beaumont
The course
The Graduate Diploma in Operations Management is a part-time course which has been designed to provide business executives with key manufacturing management knowledge and skills and emphasises internationally competitive practices. The graduate diploma comprises eight units and is structured so that it can be completed in three consecutive semesters (including a summer semester), on a part-time enrolment basis. Normal course duration is two years part-time, or one year full-time. The diploma forms the first half of the Master of Business (Operations Management) degree.
Objectives
On completion of this course students will be able to:
* demonstrate the knowledge and skills which make excellent operations managers;
* understand the use of advanced technologies to gain and maintain a strategic and competitive advantage;
* use operations management concepts and skills to enable their companies to become internationally competitive;
* manage cross-functional teams and projects and manage ongoing change.
Venue
Evening classes are offered at the Caulfield campus.
Credit for work done elsewhere
Please refer to the course regulations for the Graduate Diploma in Manufacturing Management for details relating to credit transfers.
Course structure
The course for the graduate diploma comprises eight subjects selected from the following twelve (Note: Candidates who have qualified for a graduate certificate shall be required to complete four subjects only):
Six subjects shall be completed from the following compulsory core subjects:
* MGM6510 Manufacturing business strategies
* MGM6520 Manufacturing management technologies
* ACC6540 Finance for advanced manufacturing
* MGM6550 People development and management
* MGM6571 Research project (2 units)
or
* MGM6581 Overseas study tour (2 units)
An additional two subjects shall be completed from the following subject list:
* MGM6530 Innovation in manufacturing management
* MGM6560 Manufacturing systems integration
* MGM6720 Managing in a changing environment
* MKT6780 Marketing strategy
* MGM6840 Management of operations and quality
or an elective selected from subjects offered in the Graduate Diploma in Business Management.