ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Organisation of Companies and Commercialisation
Areas: Business Organisation
Center Faculty of Economics and Business Studies
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
The aim of this course is familiarize to the students with the Operations Management (OM), through the following educational objectives:· Definition, and historical perspective of the Operations Management· To show how OM adds value and to recognize the different strategic approaches from which the production can be contemplated .·Understand the dimensions of the mission of operations and their influence in the strategic design and in the daily development of the operations.· To show the state-of-art technology in OM and to introduce the application of OM tools to other functional areas. ·To develop in the student the required abilities successfully to approach the productive configuration of the company in its four fundamental areas: the product, the productive tasks, the process and the logistics.
“Organization of production” and operations management. Production planning, mission and objectives at the operational level. Decisions on operations. Product decision and process decision.
Operations and Productivity. Managing Projects. Process Design. Location Decisions. Layout Decisions. Supply Chain Management. Aggregate Scheduling. Short-term scheduling. JIT and Lean Operations. Maintenance and Reliability Decisions.
Basic
HEIZER, J. y RENDER, B. (2015): Dirección de la producción y de operaciones. Decisiones estratégicas (11ª ed.). Prentice Hall.
HEIZER, J. y RENDER, B. (2015): Dirección de la producción y de operaciones. Decisiones tácticas (11ª ed.). Prentice Hall.
Complementary
DOMÍNGUEZ MACHUCA, J.A. y OTROS (1995): Dirección de operaciones. Aspectos estratégicos en la producción y los servicios. McGraw-Hill.
DOMÍNGUEZ MACHUCA, J.A. y OTROS (1995): Dirección de operaciones. Aspectos tácticos y operativos en la producción y los servicios. McGraw-Hill.
FERNÁNDEZ SÁNCHEZ, E. y otros (2006): Estrategia de Producción. Mc. Graw Hill
Competences of the degree to which the subject contributes:
Basic skills
CB2 - Students can apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and possess the skills that are usually demonstrated through the elaboration and defense of arguments and problem solving within their area of study
General Competences
CG4 - Know how to communicate information, ideas, problems and proposals to solve business issues both for a specialized and non-specialized public, making use of both verbal and written language and the means and techniques of representation of relationships and presentation of data that Are used in the discipline
CG5 - To have the general knowledge and the necessary learning skills to continue studying and to undertake specialized studies in the different areas of the company and in other related areas, with a high degree of autonomy.
Transversal competences
CT6 - Troubleshooting.
CT7 - Making decisions.
CT8 - Critical reasoning
CT9 - Learning autonomy
CT10 - Teamwork
CT21 - Project Management
Specific competences
B5 - Tactical and strategic decisions related to the production area
D8 - Derive from the data relevant information that can not be recognized by non-professionals
D9 - Usually use information and communication technology throughout their professional performance
D10 - Apply to the analysis of the problems professional criteria based on the management of technical instruments
D11 - Communicate fluently in your environment and work as a team
The classroom sessions dedicated to the expository classes will aim to introduce students to the contents of the topics that make up the program, emphasizing the especially relevant aspects and the relationships between them. The interactive sessions in small groups will be based on the practical application of the theoretical contents presented in the expository sessions. These sessions will aim to solve cases and practical exercises to improve students' ability to recognize, define and analyze the problems that companies face, and to make the most appropriate decisions, while facilitating interaction between students. All these activities will be complemented with the personal work that the students must dedicate to each one of them. This autonomous work will be guided by the teacher in the hours dedicated to tutoring. The tutorials will be mainly face-to-face.
During the course, the virtual classroom will be used for communication, teaching and evaluation tasks. The Microsoft Teams tool can also be used; in this case, the students will be informed promptly.
If possible, a practical session in the form of a lecture or company visit will take place.
The evaluation of the subject will be carried out as follows:
- Continuous evaluation: case analysis, delivery of exercises, assignments, continuous evaluation tests ... Weight in the final grade: 30%.
- Final exam. Weight in the final grade: 70%.
These two parts that make up the students' grades will be applied in both calls (ordinary and extraordinary), in such a way that the score obtained in the continuous evaluation (30%) will be maintained for the July call.
To pass the course, the student must obtain a grade greater than or equal to five (out of ten) on the exam, and a final grade (for exam plus activities) also greater than five (out of ten).
The list of competences to be evaluated in this matter is detailed below:
- Continuous evaluation: CB2; CG4; CT7; CT9; CT10; CT21; D9; D11
- Final exam: CG5; CT6; CT8; B5; D8; D10
In the evaluation, in addition to the acquisition of knowledge, aspects such as the appropriate use of the techniques and tools of the subject, clarity and expository capacity, mastery of the subject's own terminology or active participation will be considered.
Attendance to both the lectures and the interactive classes is compulsory, unless the student is granted the dispensation of attendance according to Instruction N. 1/2017, of the Secretaría Xeral, on the exemption of the attendance to class in certain circumstances. The students to whom the waiver is granted will be evaluated with a specific final examination that will represent 100% of the final mark.
In cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the “Regulations for evaluating student academic performance and reviewing grades” will apply.
The continuous evaluation tests and exercises and the final exam will be done in person.
The course is 6 credits and each credit equals 25 hours.
The total working hours are distributed as follows:
.- On Campus (including hours of teaching expository, interactive teaching, mentoring and evaluation): 60 hours
Personal work .-: 90 hours
Theoretical and practical classes on the matter
Exercises and other works will be proposed for individual or group resolution.
Book of obligatory study.
Other recommended books
Maria Teresa Gomez Deus
- Department
- Organisation of Companies and Commercialisation
- Area
- Business Organisation
- mariateresa.gomez.deus [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: LOSU (Organic Law Of University System) Associate University Professor
Maria Del Pilar Piñeiro Garcia
- Department
- Organisation of Companies and Commercialisation
- Area
- Business Organisation
- pilar.pineiro.garcia [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Romina García Chas
Coordinador/a- Department
- Organisation of Companies and Commercialisation
- Area
- Business Organisation
- Phone
- 881811712
- romina.garcia [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Paula Alvarez Gonzalez
- Department
- Organisation of Companies and Commercialisation
- Area
- Business Organisation
- Phone
- 881811599
- p.alvarez.gonzalez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
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