Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2024-25

Operations Management: this course is part of the subject "Business Organization" and is taught in the second half of the first year of the degree. This course is intended for students to understand the problems of operations in the company and its relationship with other functional areas and business strategies. It also discusses planning and control tools in the area of operations, and improvement processes of the organization in the context of operations management. This subject is studied after "Fundamentals of Business Economics" and it provides basic knowledge on the administration of organisations. Thus, the discipline, "Operations Management" focuses on the study of one of the business organisations subsystems, operations / production, keeping a relationship with other subjects of business administration in the degree in which other business subsystems are studied and other more specific leadership and management concepts, such as:

• Introduction to Marketing, 1 st year.
• Organization Design, 2nd year.
• Finance, 3 rd year.
• Strategic Management of Companies I, 3 rd year.
• Strategic Management Companies II, 3 rd year.
• Strategy and International Business Management, 4 th grade.
• Entrepreneurship, 4 th grade.
• Human Resource Management, 4 th grade.
• Quality Management and Environment, 4 th grade.

 

 

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2024-25

General Competences (CG)

  • CG1 : Capacitat per a la recerca i anàlisi d'informació.
  • CG2 : Capacitat de treballar en equip.
  • CG3 : Capacitat d'aprenentatge autònom.
  • CG4 : Aplicar a l'anàlisi dels problemes criteris professionals basats en la utilització d'instruments tècnics.
  • CG5 : Capacitat per a la presa de decisions aplicant els coneixements a la pràctica.
  • CG6 : Derivar de les dades informació rellevant impossible de reconèixer per no professionals.
  • CG7 : Compromís ètic i responsabilitat social en el treball, respectant el medi ambient, coneixent i comprenent la importància del respecte als drets fonamentals, a la igualtat d'oportunitats entre homes i dones, a l'accessibilitat universal per a les persones amb discapacitat i al respecte als valors propis d'una cultura de pau i valors democràtics.
  • CG8 : Analitzar els problemes amb raonament crític, sense prejudicis, amb precisió i rigor.
  • CG9 : Capacitat de síntesi.

 

General Competences acquired at University of Alicante (CGUA)

  • CGUA3 : Capacitat de comunicació oral i escrita.

 

Specific Competences (CE)

  • CE10 : Saber utilitzar diversos instruments tècnics d'anàlisis d'operacions, i assimilar les principals teories de l'organització per a ser capaç d'analitzar una empresa en el seu entorn.
  • CE15 : Preparar la presa de decisions en empreses i organitzacions, especialment en els nivells operatiu i tàctic.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2024-25

1. Understand the problems of operations in the company and its relationship with other functional areas and business strategy.

2. Knowing and applying planning and control tools in the area of operations.

3. Identify opportunities for improvement in the organization in the context of operations management.

4. Learning to use mathematical models of decision making.

5. Develop a critical mind to the business situations.

 

 

General

Code: 22008
Lecturer responsible:
CONCA FLOR, FRANCISCO JOSE
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: COMPANY ORGANISATION
    Area: COMPANY ORGANISATION
    Theoretical credits: 1,2
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught