The purpose of this course is to study the current state of productivity in American industry from an operations point of view, discussing present issues of concern to the managers of operations systems in business, industry, services, government, for profit, and nonprofit organizations. To understand productivity and related problems facing organizations today. To understand new techniques and technologies available today and to learn how they are used to increase productivity. To understand the change process and its relevance in improving productivity. Classroom activities will be evaluated through individual contributions to class and group activities.
All students are responsible for contributing to classroom discussions on a regular basis .
Topic Presentation . Each team will be responsible for preparing and presenting its assigned topic to the class. In addition, the slides should be posted for the class to the ListProc. Weekly Assignments . Evaluation will be based on the form and content application and example and productivity metric data.