Working with a faculty mentor, the student completes a systems analysis and project plan, carries out the project, and submits a final report demonstrating application of systems management theory to practice. Individual responsibility for team success using foundational team models and theories. Personality, development, motivation, power and influence, learning styles, communications, individual and group growth and development, virtual groups, learning groups, leadership, conflict, privacy. Operations research, systems thinking, learning organization, strategic planning, organizational structure, systems dynamics, sociotechnical design. Practice techniques for working with client teams, and create a simulation of a real system.
Students participate in a team service learning project.
Operations research topics including probability and statistics of mean, forecasting, decision trees, linear programming solutions for network, project schedules, resource optimization. Through applied projects, learn data selection, software tools and information interpretation. Manage resources throughout the supply chain using flexible strategies. Project initiation, planning, organizing, staffing, scheduling, monitoring and control, conflict management, cost effectiveness, quality, software tools for project management, team processes and leadership styles. Students implement a team project.