This course provides an opportunity for the participants to integrate knowledge and experience through a computer-based simulation environment. As student teams compete, they develop a deeper understanding of how the various functional areas of management (finance, marketing, production) are integrated.
Business Simulation (MGMT 911)
Programs\Type | Required | Core Elective | Area Elective |
Executive MBA - Non Thesis | * |
CONTENT
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to: ? Control a simulated business and manage its operations through several decision cycles. ? Analyze the situation ? Plan and execute a strategy to improve the situation ? Adjust their strategy as they discover the nature of real-life decisions, including the available options, linkages to other parts of the business, conflicts, tradeoffs and potential outcomes. ? Assume various managerial roles and functions as the simulation game serves as a continuing, evolving ?case?
PROGRAMME OUTCOMES
1. Develop the ability to use critical, analytical, and reflective thinking and reasoning 5
2. Reflect on social and ethical responsibilities in his/her professional life. 5
3. Gain experience and confidence in the dissemination of project/research outputs 5
4. Work responsibly and creatively as an individual or as a member or leader of a team and in multidisciplinary environments. 5
5. Communicate effectively by oral, written, graphical and technological means and have competency in English. 5
6. Independently reach and acquire information, and develop appreciation of the need for continuously learning and updating. 5
1. Develop, interpret and use statistical analyses in decision making. 3
1. Identify and diagnose business problems and opportunities accurately and effectively across a wide range of business domains (accounting, financial management, operations, marketing, strategy, and organizational design), in global and local contexts. 5
2. Incorporate cultural context and complexities in their managerial practice. 3
3. Assess the performance of an organization in a wide range of business domains, using a range of performance criteria. 4
4. Identify, select, and justify strategies and courses of action at the divisional, business, and corporate levels of analysis and to develop effective plans for the implementation of selected strategies across a wide range of business domains and levels. 4