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Managing Business Operations - MAN00120M

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  • Department: The York Management School
  • Credit value: 15 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2022-23
    • See module specification for other years: 2023-24

Module summary

This module focuses upon operations management and how the interplay between strategy and operations is managed.

Related modules

Teaching cycle: Online carousel module

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Autumn Term 2022-23

Module aims

This module covers the activities of modern operations management and examines how business strategy affects business operations.

Module learning outcomes

By the end of this module, students should be able to:

  • Appreciate the impact of strategic decisions on the management of business operations

  • Select and effectively apply a range of complex tools and techniques underpinning contemporary business operations to achieve innovative solutions

  • Examine problems and issues critically and in detail using the main theoretical perspectives, tools and techniques underpinning contemporary business operations and evaluate the methods, process and outcomes by which new innovative solutions or actions emerge

  • Consider the various approaches that may be adopted in the design, organisation and quality assurance of products within a range of business processes;

  • Develop an enhanced practical knowledge of the techniques and technologies for the operation and control of operations systems in the contemporary organisational environment

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 30
Essay/coursework 70

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 100

Module feedback

In accordance with School policy.

Indicative reading

Dan, R.R. and Sanders, N.R. (2015). Operations Management. John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Krajewski, L.J., Malhotra, M.K. and Ritzman, L.P. (2016). Operations management. Processes and supply chains. Boston: Pearson.

Slack, N. and Brandon-Jones, A. (2019). Operations Management. 9th ed. Harlow, England ; New York: Pearson.


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