Industrial dynamics and the interplay with competitors and stakeholders (customers, suppliers, employees, the society at large and so on), the distinctive character of industrial operations, organization & human resource management, innovation & entrepreneurship, leadership, strategic planning, marketing, cost-volume-profit analysis, accounting & bookkeeping, finance (supply & use of capital), cash-flow analysis, investment appraisal, management control, and costing. Sustainability, gender, communication and teamwork are covered in relation to the subject.
ME1000 Industrial Management 6.0 credits
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Course syllabus as PDF
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Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
Intended learning outcomes
After the course, you should:
- Be able to explain how a business as well as leadership, organizing, strategic planning, and management control functions in an industrial organisation.
- Be able to interpret an annual report from an industrial organisation, as well as be able to calculate and design the different parts of it at a basic level.
- Be able to explain the structure of the industrial company’s streams of payments.
- Be able to construct, interpret and use cost calculations as part of the decision support for the industrial company’s different situations.
- Be able to connect industrial management to your future area of work.
- With the departure in your view on industrial management, be able to explain how the different parts of the area fit together related to the objectives of the industrial organization.
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
Basic eligibility for university studies, including English A,or similar.
Literature
“Accounting and finance for non-specialists” by Peter Atrill & Eddie McLaney, Prentice Hall.
Examination and completion
Grading scale
A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
Examination
- TENA - Exam, 6.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
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The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Other requirements for final grade
Homework assignment, followed by an individual discussion. Also, a seminar report and active participation in the seminar are needed as requirements.
Examiner
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Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.
Further information
Course room in Canvas
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Main field of study
Industrial Management, Technology
Education cycle
First cycle
Supplementary information
Established 2005-01-14
Replaces 4D1022