NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL
PRELIMINARY READING LIST FOR ALL MSc OPERATIONS
MANAGEMENT - 2007/08
Please consult the individual course structures shown at
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/business/ma/maprogrammes.html
SEMESTER ONE
N1DC09 INTRODUCTION TO MANAGING OPERATIONS
To be advised at a later date.
N1DC10 QUALITY MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY TECHNIQUES
Main Text
Dale, B.G. (ed), 2003,Managing Quality, 4th Edition, Blackwell Publishing
Also recommended
Oakland J.S & Porter L.J.1999, ‘Total Quality Management : Text and
Cases’ Butterworth-Hienemann
Kehoe D.F. 1996 ‘The Fundamentals of Quality Management’, Chapman &
Hall.
Neave H.R. 1990, ‘Statistics Tables’, Allen and Unwin (used for the
examination)
Montgomery D.C.. 1996 ‘Introduction to Statistical Quality Control’ 3rd
Edition, Wiley.
N1DC11 SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
Books:
There are many general textbooks in Production and Operations
Management. They all contain chapters on the topics covered in the
module- forecasting, inventory control, planning and control, MRP etc.
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Many introductory textbooks in Management Science/Operational
Research also contain chapters on these topics.
The following book is the main module text. Students will benefit highly
from having access to a copy (studying just from the handouts is not
sufficient).
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Steven Nahmias: Production and Operations Analysis, 2004, 5th
edition, ISBN 0071238379, Publisher: McGraw-Hill.
In addition, a selection of chapters from the following books will be used.
(The relevant sections from these books will be made available during the
lectures.)
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Thomas E. Vollmann, William L. Berry, D. Clay Whybark, F. Robert
Jacobs: Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain
Management, 2005, 5th edition, ISBN 007-112133-1, Publisher:
McGraw-Hill.
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Richard B. Chase, F. Robert Jacobs, Nicholas J. Aquillano, Operations
Management for Competitive Advantage, ISBN 0-07-121555-7,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill.
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Daniel Sipper & Robert L. Bulfin, Jr.: Production: Planning, Control
and Integration, 1998, ISBN 0-07-115843-X, Publisher: McGraw-Hill.
The general texts listed below may also be useful for supplementary
reading for all or part of the module:
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Evans J R (1998) Production Operations Management, 1st ed., West
Publishing Company.
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Krajewski L J, Ritzman L P (2002) Operations Management: strategy
and analysis, 6th ed., Prentice-Hall.
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Schroeder R G (1993) Operations Management: decision making in
the operations function, 4th ed., McGraw-Hill.
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Slack N, Chambers S, Johnston R (2001) Operations Management,
3rd ed., Pitman Financial Times/Prentice Hall.
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Bozarth C C, Handfield R B (2005) Introduction to Operations and
Supply Chain Management, Prentice-Hall.
More specific texts on methods, models, techniques and systems in
forecasting, inventory and production management, which may be useful
in the assignment work, are:
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Armstrong J Scott (1978) Long-range Forecasting: From Crystal Ball
to Computer, Wiley.
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Makridakis S, Wheelwright S, Hyndman R J, (1998) Forecasting:
methods and applications, 3rd ed., John Wiley.
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Silver E A, Pyke D F, Peterson R, (1998) Inventory management and
production planning and scheduling, 3rd ed., Wiley.
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Fogarty, Blackstone and Hoffman (1991), Production and Inventory
Management, 2nd ed., South Western Publishing Co.
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Luscombe, M (1993) MRPII: integrating the business: a practical
guide for manager, Butterworth Heinemann, Oxford, UK.
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Scott B (1994), Manufacturing planning systems, McGraw-Hill.
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Browne J, Harhen J, Shivnan J (1996) Production management
systems: an integrated perspective, 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley.
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Sheikh K (2003) Manufacturing resource planning (MRP II): with
introduction to ERP, SCM and CRM, McGraw-Hill.
Research papers relating to the various aspects of Planning, Scheduling
and Control across the supply chain may be found in the well-known
Operations and Production journals and sometimes feature in Harvard
Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review and California
Management Review. There are a number of academic research journals
in Operations Management and related areas such as Production,
Operational Research and Management Science. The following list
identifies some of the key journals. Many are available online and all
should be available through various abstracting forms (speak to a subject
Librarian if you have any difficulties locating journal material).
Operations Management
Journal of Operations Management
International Journal of Operations and Production Management
International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management
International Journal of Production Economics
International Journal of Production Research
Integrated Manufacturing Systems
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
OR/MS and related areas
Operations Research
Journal of the Operational Research Society
Management Science
European Journal of Operational Research
Interfaces (good for case studies)
O.R. Insight (good for case studies)
Journal of Forecasting
International Journal of Forecasting
Journal of Scheduling (highly mathematical)
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Some web sites of interest:
www.iomnet.org : The Institute of Operations Management their
practitioner magazine is called, CONTROL, is a useful source for easily
readable practitioner material (some issues available online).
www.ciltuk.org.uk : The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
www.cips.org : The Charted Institute of Purchasing and Supply
www.iee.org / manufacturing: The Institution of Electrical Engineers
(manufacturing and management Divisions – their practitioner journal in
manufacturing and management are very high quality material.
The American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS):
www.apics.org. An important organisation for what’s hot in operations
(but little material free online)
Professional bodies (strong lay academic but good material) are
www.informs.org INFORMS (US OR/MS Institute)
N1DC15 PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Course Books:
Meredith, Jack R, Mantel, Samuel J, Mantel Jr, Samuel J, Project
Management: A Managerial Approach (5th edition), John Wiley and Sons
Ltd, ISBN: 0471073237
Note: this is the recommended primary text for the module. Material
from it will be used in many lectures. The book comes with a CDROM
containing Crystal Ball (an Excel add-in) which will be used in the course.
The book has a website on which you will fine extra material and answers
to the even numbered problems in each chapter.
http://jws-edcv.wiley.com/college/bcs/redesign/student/0,,
_0471073237_BKS_1328____,00.html
Note: there is a new 6th edition of the above book. It is a minor update
and either edition can be used for the course.
Mantel, Samuel J, Meredith, Jack R, Shafer, Scott M, Sutton, Margaret,
Core Concepts of Project Management, John Wiley and Sons Ltd, ISBN:
0471466069
Note: This is a 'budget' alternative to the recommended text. It is from
the same authors and covers most of the material in the Meredith book.
The book comes with a CDROM containing Crystal Ball (an Excel add-in)
which will be used in the course.
Other recommended Reading:
Book:
Rory Burke, Project Management: Planning and Control Techniques (3rd
edition), Wiley
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British Standards:
BS 6079-1:2002 Project management. Guide to project management
BS 6079-3:2000 Project management. Guide to the management of
business related project risk
Papers:
Lorance, R. B., Wendling, R. V. (2001) Basic Techniques for Analyzing and
Presentation of Cost Risk Analysis. Cost Engineering, Vol. 43 Issue 6,
pp25-32
Clark, D E. (2001) Monte Carlo Analysis: Ten Years of Experience. Cost
Engineering, Vol. 43 Issue 6, pp40-46
Williams, T. (2004) Why Monte Carlo simulations of projects can mislead.
Project Management Journal, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp53-61
Williams, G V (1995) Fast Track Pros and Cons: Considerations for
Industrial Projects. Journal of Management in Engineering, Vol. 11, Issue
5, pp24-32
Lyneis, J. M., Cooper, K. G., Els S. A. (2001) Strategic management of
complex projects: a case study using system dynamics. System Dynamics
Review, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp237-260
Advanced Reading:
White D, Fortune J (2002) Current Practice in Project Management - an
empirical survey, Int Journal of Project Management, 20, 1-11
Hillson, D. (2003) Using a Risk Breakdown Structure in project
management. Journal of Facilities Management, Vol. 2, Issue 1, pp85-98
Rodrigues & Williams (1998) System dynamics in project management:
assessing the impacts of client behaviour on project performance, Journal
of the Operational Research Society, 49, 2-15 (Read sections:
Introduction, Applications of system dynamics)
N1DC23 PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND LEAN TECHNIQUES
The Reading list for 2007/08 will be advised at a later date but,
for your information, the texts for 2006/7 are as follows:
Core Texts
The Complete Lean Kit (Learning to See, Seeing The Whole, Creating
Level Pull, Creating Continuous Flow, Making Materials Flow, Lean
Lexicon), Lean Enterprise Academy (www.leanuk.org)
Nicholas, J. (1998) Competitive Manufacturing Management.
Bicheno, J. (2004) The New Lean Toolbox: Towards Fast, Flexible Flow
(3rd ed) Picsie Press, England.
Simon (2000), Performance Measurement and Control Systems for
Implementing Strategy, Prentice Hall.
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Essential reading
Womack J., Jones D. (1996) Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create
Wealth in your Corporation, Simon & Schuster, New York.
Hines P., Taylor D. (2000), Going Lean: A Guide to Implementation, Lean
Enterprise Research Centre, Cardiff.
Kaplan, R. S. , Norton, D. P. (1996) The Balanced Scorecard: Translating
Strategy into Action
Articles & Case Studies
Regani S & Dutta, S (2004), Taiichi Ohno and Toyota Production System,
ICFAI case study, 604-070-1, pp1-19.
Venables, Mark. (2005), Early Learning Centre, IEE Manufacturing
Engineer, Aug/Sept, pp22-25
Venables, Mark. (2005), Going for Lean, IEE Manufacturing Engineer,
Aug/Sept, pp26-31
Harrison, A; Pavitt, J & Alexander J. (2002), “The status of Lean Thinking
in UK Lean Aerospace Initiative (UK-LAI) Supply Chains: A survey”, SBAC
& EPSRC, pp1-28
Lockamy, A & McCormack. (2004), Linking SCOR planning practices to
supply chain performance: an exploratory study, International Journal of
Production & Operations Management, Vol24, No12, pp1192-1218.
Kaplan, RS & Norton, DP. (1992), The Balanced Scorecard - Measures that
drive performance, Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb, pp71-79.
Kaplan, RS & Norton, DP. (1993), Putting the Balanced Scorecard to work,
Harvard Business Review, Sept-Oct, pp134-142.
Kaplan, RS & Norton, DP. (1993), Using the Balanced Scorecard as a
Strategic Management System, Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb, pp7585.
Rohm, H. A Balancing Act, PERFORM – Performance Measurement in
Action, Vol 2, Issue 2, pp 1-8.
Ward, A. (2005), Implementing the Balanced Scorecard at Lloyds TSB,
Strategic HR Review, Vol 4, issue 3, Mar-April, pp 16-19.
Rogers, H; Ghauri, P & Pawar KS. (2005), Measuring International NPD
projects: an evaluation process, Journal of Business & Industrial
Marketing, Vol 20, No 2, pp 79-87.
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In addition there are number other articles/additional material which
provide useful supporting information, these will be provided during the
module.
Periodicals
Harvard Business Review
Sloan Management Review
Journal of Operations Management
International Journal of Operations and Production Management
N1DB01 INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING
The recommended text:
Glynn, J. Murphy, M. Perrin, J. and Abraham, A. (2003), Accounting for
Managers, (3rd ed.), Thomson.
The following textbook is also recommended but students are not
expected to purchase it:
Elliott, B. and Elliott, J. (2006), Financial Accounting and Reporting, (10th
ed), Prentice Hall, London.
N1DB02 MARKETING
Essentials of Marketing.
Frances Brassington & Stephen Pettitt. Prentice-Hall
Principles & Practice of Marketing.
David Jobber. McGraw-Hill. Preferably the second or third edition or
later.
NIDB03 ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
To be advised at a later date.
N1DB05 BUSINESS ECONOMICS
Core text
Begg, D and Ward (2004), D Economics for Business, McGraw-Hill, ISBN:
0077104293
McAleese, D (2004) Economics for Business 3/e, FT Prentice Hall,
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