Course Title: Operational Management
Part A: Course Overview
Program: C5127
Course Title: Operational Management
Portfolio: BUS
Nominal Hours: 60.0
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
BUSM9742L |
City Campus |
TAFE |
650T TAFE Business |
Face-to-Face |
Course Contact: Kylie Paterson-Jonas
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 1468
Course Contact Email: kylie.paterson@rmit.edu.au
Course Description
International Trade is actively engaged in planning, implementing, monitoring and recording performance to achieve the business plans of the team/organisation. This key role is carried out to provide safe, efficient and effective products and services to customer satisfaction within the organisations productivity and profitability plans. At this level, work will normally be carried out within complex and diverse methods and procedures which require the exercise of considerable discretion and judgement, using a range of problem solving and decision making strategies.
This course will help you understand the vast range of duties covered by an Operations Manager.
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None
National Competency Codes and Titles
National Element Code & Title: |
BSBFLM505A Manage operational plan |
Elements: |
Acquire resources |
Monitor operational performance |
|
Plan resource use |
Learning Outcomes
Overview of Assessment
Students will study operations management theory and then apply it to situations in industries they may like to work in. It is expected that students will read theory provided in Power Point Presentations &/or relevant chapter of the text book prior to class time in order to discuss the theories at length, sometimes guest speakers may be present. Activities including group work, site visits, case studies and excursions will be held in class times. Students may be responsible for entry fee and transportation costs.
Students will be provided with more than one opportunity to demonstrate competence. Competency based assessment is detailed below in “Assessment methods” and “Assessment Tasks”.
The student must demonstrate an understanding of all elements of a particular competency to be deemed competent. Assessment methods have been designed to measure achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over a range of assessment tasks.
Assessment will incorporate a variety of methods including technical requirements documentation, homework and in class exercises, written tests, practical problem solving exercises, presentations and practical tests. Students are advised that they are likely to be asked to personally demonstrate their assessment work to their teacher to ensure that the relevant competency standards are being met.
BSBFLM505A/01 PLAN RESOURCE USE
BSBFLM505A/02 ACQUIRE RESOURCES
BSBFLM505A/03 MONITOR OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE
Case Study 1
Case Study 2
Case Study 3
Case Study 4
Major Assignment
Test