37068 - Principles of Management

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students can understand how a company establishes different internal and external activities. At the end of the course they can understand the principles and contents of operations of market oriented companies. Students can manage activities of market oriented companies by defining strategic framework and by analysing competition and market segments; students are also able to manage and control operating processes.

Course contents

Management is the process which requires leading and directing an organization, through techniques and activities to use and combine different types of resources. The resources are namely: human, financial, material, intellectual, intangible. Every management course covers to some extent the five management functions: Planning, Organizing, Leading, Co-ordinating, Controlling.

In this course, after introducing the main issues related to the activities and contexts of management, we mainly discuss the principles, techniques and steps to use, plan, organize, lead, coordinate and control material resources. The four essential core areas of operations management and supply chain management are thus analyzed: —strategy, process management, supply chain management, and inventory and control (supply and demand planning). Such concepts are integrated by the idea of sustainability as a strategic consideration. The course includes updated company applications, problems, and cases.

The main sections of this course are:

-Introduction: this course of Principles of Management and its relation to the Corso di Laurea in Business and Economics

-Definition of management and main concepts and activities

-Firms and customers, what is a firm, how firms interact with each other, how customers (consumers and customer firms) changed in the last decades, the impact of new technology on the workplace

-Regulating context: general norms, antitrust regulation and consumer protection, governmental regulation about products, prices and the workplace

-Corporate social responsibility and business ethics: the internal and external impact of company behaviour on society

-Operations and supply management

-Strategy and Sustainability

-Manufacturing Processes

-Service Processes

-Supply Chain Processes

-Supply and Demand Planning

Readings/Bibliography

Textbook

Title: Operations and Supply Chain Management – The Core – International Edition

Authors: F. Robert Jacobs, Richard B Chase

Publisher: McGraw Hill – International Edition

Edition

You can choose one of the following international editions:

-Second Edition - International Edition, November 2009 - ISBN: 978-0-07-017226-5 - Only the following selected chapters of this edition are included: chapters 1,2,3,4,5-pages from 108 to 131 excluded, and 8,9,10,12,13,14)

-Fourth Edition – International Edition, March, 2016 – ISBN: 978-1-259-25352-2 - Only the following selected chapters of this edition are included: chapters 1,2,4,6, 7-pages from 215 to 239 excluded, 8,9,11,12,13,14)

You can find the book either (on order) in bookshops or on line (Amazon or similar on line retailer)

There are additional readings and teaching materials that are part of the program and must be studied for the exam; they will be discussed during the course and will be gradually available to be downloaded from the official database of the university of bologna at the following link of AMS campus, for the Principles of Management course of the academic year 2016-2017 :

http://campus.unibo.it/cgi/lista?annoAccademico=2016&codiceScuola=843862&codiceCorso=8965&codMateria=37068-406489&nav=i

 

Teaching methods

Traditional lectures, case studies, exercises on computer models, videos

Assessment methods

Written Exam:

1. an intermediate exam after half of the course

2. a final exam at the end of the course, that will be about the second part of the course for those students who will have passed the first intermediate, or about the full course program for the other students

From the second appello onwards, for all students the exam will be about the full course program.

Students of previous years will be examined with the actual course program, with the written final exam that will be about the full course program.

Teaching tools

Excel files with management models; case, excercises and videos will be discussed in class. Students will sometime be asked to read a specific case study before class.

Links to further information

http://campus.unibo.it/cgi/lista?annoAccademico=2016&codiceScuola=843862&codiceCorso=8965&codMateria=37068-406489&nav=i

Office hours

See the website of Angelo Manaresi