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Back to Hazen's Home Page. Management 4213 Syllabus
Principles of Production/Operations Management Section    Room
Instructor: Dr. Samuel Hazen, SPHR
Office: Room 130       Office hours: Posted on office door.
Phone: 968-9277 (Home) 817-279-8787 (under extreme emergency)
E-mail: for my office computer: hazen@tarleton.edu
             for my home computer: ebeseken@swbell.net
Course Textbook: Operations Management.   Authors: R. Dan Reid and Nada R. Sanders. Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.   (ISBN 0-471-32011-0)
DISABILITIES/OFFICE OF COMPLIANCE. Any student with a documented disability who may need academic accommodation, must register with the Office of Compliance, Room 15 Barry B. Thompson Student Center Building (phone 968-9480). The last day to request academic accommodations for each term corresponds to the last day for dropping a course with no record.
ATTENDANCE POLICY: Each student will be expected to attend all scheduled class sessions at the student's discretion. However, class attendance can be looked upon as a method of obtaining extra credit, keeping in mind the possibility of pop quizzes at any time.
COURSE OBJECTIVE: The objective of this course is for each student to be able to know, comprehend, apply, analyze, synthesize and evaluate the basics of managing the operations side of organizations, either service based or production based.
TEACHING/LEARNING METHODOLOGIES: The following methods will be employed: Lectures, videos, class discussion, class discussion of cases, oral presentations and written reports of research.
GRADING CRITERIA: The student's level of learning for each specific dimension of the course objective (stated above) will be demonstrated by attaining at least 60% of all potential points as prescribed below, [ie., (K) Knowledge, © Comprehension, (A) Application/Analysis, (S) Synthesis/Evaluation].
The grade received in this class will be determined as follows: The weights to be assigned to each of these components will be assigned by each student on an individual basis. This approach to the assigning of weights for the various learning evaluation components is in recognition that individuals have unique learning styles. Some students learn best through visual stimuli, while other students learn best through use of the other senses. Most learn best through the use of some combination of the various senses. Your preference for the weighting of each of these components will be recorded by use of the Individual Evaluation Component Weighting Form which will be completed and turned in sometime during the first part of the semester (if not the default weights will be assigned). You may also wish to record your percentage weights in the blanks following each item on your syllabus to keep for your own record.

1) (K,C,S) Exams, totally objective type, ie. multiple choice and/or true/false items, over text material (with the heaviest emphasis over text material addressed in class). For each exam you will be permitted to use, a one page crib sheet, eight and one-half by eleven inches, front and back, while taking scheduled exams.
%weight 05 to 60 (_____)   (default 34%)
2) (C,A,S) Organization operations research project. For your semester research project you are to identify an organization of your choosing. You will then develop a report concerning an operational process or processes involving some part or parts of this organization. The organization may be profit or non-profit, manufacturing or service, just about anything goes. The organization may be one with which you have had personal experience or just an organization you find interesting. In your report you will provide, at a minimum, background information concerning your chosen organization. You will explain how the process or processes operate. The reader of your report will need to be able to understand what you are talking about. Finally, utilizing as many of the concepts and tools covered in the text and class, you will offer a suggestion or suggestions as to how the organization can improve its productivity. You will also give an oral presentation to the class of your report. How long is this report expected to be? As long as it needs to be. This will be due the next to the last week of the semester.
%weight 05 to 60 (_____) (default 34%)
3) (C,A,S) Unannounced project status update which will include a tentative bibliography with a short synopsis of all sources researched up to that point and a very rough draft of what you have finished to that point (sometime around mid-semester).
%weight 05 to 20 (_____) (default 12%)
4) (K,C) Pop quizzes and miscellaneous assignments; pop quizzes will cover assigned text material or in-class videos and given on a random basis and miscellaneous assignments will include all other assignments not included elsewhere.
%weight 05 to 20 (_____) (default 12%)
5) (C,A,S) Web pick-of-the-week. For this assignment you are to surf the web on a regular basis and find web sites which in some way relate to the area of organizational operations management. After accessing a particular web site, print a copy of the home page to be turned in. I would like for you to share the particulars of your web pick with the class, also.
%weight 05 to 15 (_____)   (default 8%)
6) (K,C,A,S) Attendance/Participation. The percentage of your attendance, along with classroom participation /instructor discretion, will be used in determining this part of your overall score.
Grades will be earned as follows:
0-59* =F; 60-69* =D; 70-79* =C; 80-89* =B; 90-100* =A.
       *(% of total possible points)
Tentative Assignment Schedule of Topics and Text Material:
The material in the Course Text will be covered in order as presented in the text until otherwise announced. Plan on reading ahead in the text at least one chapter beyond the current chapter.

Cartoon Assignment for Extra Credit

(Strictly voluntary) During the session you will be encouraged to search for newspaper cartoons and/or comic strips related directly to a specific business discipline or area. The final judgement concerning whether or not your chosen newspaper cartoons are directly related to a business discipline will be made by your professor. The policies under which this assignment will be governed are as follows:
1. An opportunity at the beginning of each class period will be devoted to newspaper cartoon/comic strip presentation time. Any student desiring to present a newspaper cartoon/comic strip will volunteer at the start of the class period. It will not be up to the professor to call upon students. The student or students bringing newspaper cartoon/comic strips for points will present them to the class. The newspaper cartoon/comic strips will then be turned in with the student's name and NEWSPAPER SOURCE FROM WHICH IT WAS TAKEN WRITTEN on the reverse side. These guidelines will be strictly observed in order for a newspaper cartoon/comic strip to be eligible to count toward the total for a particular class period.

2. The newspaper sources from which this assignment may be obtained will be limited to newspapers which are not older than seven days immediately preceding the current class period.

3. Method for computing credit:
a. Credit will be earned in the form of "Point Credits (PCS)". Each PC can be used to offset points missed for an incorrect response to items on a test.

b. A Point Credit account will be maintained for each student during the semester and a maximum of 10 PCS will be applied to any one exam. PCS earned at any time during the semester will be applied first to the first exam score below 100% then to the next exam and so on. In other words PCS will be used retroactively.

c. PCS will be awarded as follows:
PCS awarded to individual students will be based upon the total number of different newspaper cartoon/comic strips, which are directly related to a business discipline, presented by participating students for each class period according to the following schedule:
   Total Toons PCS/Participant
     01 to 03     3
     05 to 07     4
     >7              5
The number brought by individual students will not be a determinant. Therefore, individual students may present as many cartoon/comic strips as desired. The total number of different newspaper cartoon/comic strips, which are directly related to a business discipline, presented during any one class determines the number of PCS earned per student. Any questions? If not, then good hunting!

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