Production and business management (2024)

Course manager

Anne Louise Strange Vaarby

Semester schedule

Autumn (13-week period)

ECTS

5

Language of instruction

English

Course type

Elective

Qualifications

Competences corresponding to semesters 1-4 of the programme Bachelor of Engineering in Biotechnology.

Objectives

The course is focused on the organization and management of engineering companies. The course will provide the student with a basic understanding of operation, management and communication in a production-based business.

Content

The course comprises aspects related to production and business management on an operational and practical level:  

• Management and communication
• Change management
• Stakeholder management
• Performance management
• Lean and Six Sigma
• Financial management in overall terms

Learning targets

On completion of the course, the student is expected to be able to:

Knowledge

• Provide an explanation of the business organisation, governance, and strategy
• Insight into Operation Management and People Management 
• Insight into practical management and motivation

Skills

• Prepare action plans for the implementation of changes
• Planning of a seminar and included in this management of a classroom exercise
• Taking part in practical exercises on finance, lean, change management, and operation management

Competences

• Be able to communicate with people from various professions
• Receive and give fellow students feedback on classroom management and presentations
• Apply performance management in the context of a production plant
• Translate management theory into practice 

Teaching method

Class-based teaching, group work, and seminars.

Qualifications for examination participation

• Fulfilment of the requirements for compulsory participation as given in the study programme part 2.4.
• Participation in all planned teaching activities

All shall be executed pursuant to guidelines set out by the course manager.

Examination and aids

• Submission of individually prepared synopsis
• Individual oral examination based the synopsis. Duration of examination: 30 min. 

Permitted aids: Synopsis. No access to the internet. 

The final marking will be an overall assessment of the written synopsis and the performance at the oral examination.

Marking 

External 

Grading

The 7-point grading scale