Undergraduate - UnitMGW3352 - Service operations management

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Management
Offered	Not offered in 2014
Coordinator(s)	Mr Gareth Evans

Synopsis

An introduction to the service concept, service operations management and the role of operations in business strategy. Management processes and systems are introduced to cover structuring the service enterprise (the service delivery system, facility location and layout), and managing service operations (quality and productivity, queuing, facilitating goods, capacity and demand).

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

explain the role of service operations and its relationship with other organisational functions
provide the necessary skills to be able to examine the various approaches to service operations management
develop an understanding of service operations productivity, its measurement and relationship with other operational functions
demonstrate the importance and interrelatedness of the relationship between service and manufacturing operations management
relate management theory with practice.