An empirical study of POM teaching in Spanish universities (II): Faculty profile, teaching and assessment methods

International Journal of Operations and Production Management

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 375-400

  Luque, Rafaela Alfalla ^a   Machuca, José A D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Assessment; Methodology; Operations management; Production management; Spain; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054853104     PISSN: 01443577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01443570310467311     Document Type: Article

References (57)

1. AACSB (1987), "Business faculty vacancy rate continues at 16 percent despite doctorate production growth", AACSB Newsline, Vol. 4 No. 17, pp. 1-4.
2. AACSB (1997), "Informe de la AACSB sobre el profesorado y problemas relativos a la enseñanza en los centros superiores de administración de empresas (1995-96)", Noticias AEDEM, Vol. 6, March, pp. 3-14.
3. AACSB (1998), "Demand for business PhDs rises, reversing previous downward trend", AACSB Newsline Spring.
4. Adam, E.E. and Ebert, R.J. (1991), Administración de la Producción y las Operaciones, Prentice-Hall International, Mexico City.
5. Batley, T.W. (1991), "Microcomputer simulation for teaching operations management", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 11 No. 1, pp. 5-13.
6. Carraway, R.L. and Freeland, J.R. (1989), "MBA training in operations management and quantitative methods", Interfaces, Vol. 19 No. 4, pp. 75-88.
7. Chase, R.B. and Aquilano, N.J. (1994), Dirección y Administración de las Operaciones, Irwin, Chicago, IL.
8. Chong, P.S. and Kukalis, S. (1989), "Using microcomputer-based MRP software to teach materials management", Production and Inventory Management Journal, fourth quarter, pp. 56-60.
9. Companys, R. (1989), Planificación y Programación de la Producción, Marcombo, Barcelona.
10. de Lurgio, S. and Zhao, J. (1989), "teaching integrated production and information control system principles using a spreadsheet simulator", Production and Inventory Management Journal first quarter, pp. 29-34.
11. de Meyer, B.C. (1996), "A novel approach for using the computer in the core POM course", Proceedings of the 1996 POMS Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
12. Díaz, A. (1993), Producción: Gestión y Control, Ariel Economía, Barcelona.
13. Ducharme, R.E. and Lewis, D.A. (1987), "The academic/practitioner gap in production and operations management", Production and Inventory Management, Vol. 28 No. 1, pp. 88-95.
14. Fernández, E. (1993), Dirección de la Producción I. Fundamentos Estratégicos, Cívitas, Madrid.
15. Fernández, E. and Vázquez, C.J. (1994), Dirección de la Producción II: Métodos Operativos, Cívitas, Madrid.
16. Forrester, A. (1989), "The beginning of system dynamics", paper presented at the International Meeting of the System Dynamics Society, Stuttgart.
17. González, M.M., Machuca, J.A. and Ruiz, J.C. (2000), "SITMECOM 1.0 PC: A transparent-box multifuntional simulator of competing companies", Simulation and Gaming, Vol. 31 No. 2, pp. 240-256.
18. Goffin, K. (1998), "Operations management teaching on European MBA programmes", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 18 No. 5, pp. 424-451.
19. Hayes, R.H. (1998), "Developing POM faculties for the 21st century", Production and Operations Management, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 94-98.
20. Hayes, R.H. (2000), "Challenges posed to operations management by the 'New Economy'", in Machuca, J.A.D. and Mandakovic, T. (Eds), POM Facing the New Millennium, POMS, Seville, pp. 79-88.
21. Heizer, J. and Render, B. (1991), Principios de Dirección de Operaciones, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
22. Houshyar, A. (1990), "A solution to academia and practitioners' concerns: how should industrial management be taught?", Industrial Management, January/February, pp. 29-30.
23. Kumar, R.K. and El Sawy, O. (1996), "Extending the boundaries of operations management for the 21st century: the USC balanced learning model", Proceedings of the 1996 POMS Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
24. Laforge, R.L. and Busing, M.E. (1998), "The use of industrial software to create experiential learning activities in operations management courses", Production and Operations Management, Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 325-334.
25. Laforge, R.L. and McNichols, C.W. (1989), "An integrative, experiential approach to production management education", Decision Sciences, Vol. 20 No. 1, pp. 198-207.
26. Lovejoy, W.S. (1998), "Integrated operations. a proposal for operations management teaching and research", Production and Operations Management, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 106-124.
27. Machuca, J.A.D. (1998), "Improving POM learning: system thinking and transparent-box business simulators", Production and Operations Management, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 210-227.
28. Machuca, J.A.D. (2000), "Transparent-box business simulators: an aid to manage the complexity of organizations", Simulation and Gaming, Vol. 31 No. 2, pp. 230-239.
29. Machuca, J.A.D. and Alfalla, R. (2003), "An empirical study of POM teaching in Spanish universities (I): content of POM courses", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 23 No. 1, pp. 15-43.
30. Machuca, J.A.D., González, M.M. and Ruiz, J.C. (2000), "Filling the gaps in POM teaching and research", in Machuca, J.A.D. and Mandakovic, T. (Eds), POM Facing the New Millennium, POMS, Seville, pp. 117-130.
31. Machuca, J.A.D., García, A., Machuca, M.A.D., Ruiz, A. and Álvarez, M.J. (1995a), Dirección de Operaciones: Aspectos Tácticos y Operativos en la Producción y los Servicios, McGraw-Hill, Madrid.
32. Machuca, J.A.D., Álvarez, M.J., García, A., Machuca, M.A.D. and Ruiz, A. (1995b), Dirección de Operaciones: Aspectos Estratégicos en la Producción y los Servicios, McGraw-Hill, Madrid.
33. Morris, J.S. (1996), "A new approach to teaching production operations management in the business core curriculum", Proceedings of the 1996 POMS, Indianapolis, IN.
34. Moskowitz, H. and Ward, J. (1998), "A three-phase approach to instilling a continuous learning culture in manufacturing education and training", Production and Operations Management, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 201-209.
35. Oakland, J.S., Lockyer, K.G. and Sohal, A. (1986), "The incident case study in teaching production control", Production and Inventory Management, Vol. 27 No. 2, pp. 48-57.
36. Raiszadeh, F.M.E. and Ettkin, L.P. (1989), "POM in academia: some causes for concern", Production and Inventory Management Journal, 2nd trimestre, pp. 37-40.
37. Saluti, D.J. and Brown, J.T. (1987), "Report of the 1986 APICS Academic Liaison Workshop", Production and Inventory Management, Vol. 27 No. 1, pp. 116-124.
38. Satir, A. and Goyal, S. (1987), "Undergraduate curriculum for production and operations management", Production and Inventory Management, Vol. 28 No. 2, pp. 10-13.
39. Schroeder, R.G. (1993), Administración de Operaciones, McGraw-Hill, Mexico City.
40. Schvaneveldt, S.J. (1996), "Teaching operations management with popular film scenes", Proceedings of the 1996 POMS Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
41. Schwarz, L. (1998), "A new teaching paradigm: the information/control/buffer (I/C/B) portfolio", Production and Operations Management, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 125-131.
42. Simons, J.V. (1996), "The need for production/operations management (POM) doctrine", Proceedings of the 1996 POMS Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
43. Smith, D.J. (1990), "The use of microcomputer-based simulation models in the teaching of operations management", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 10 No. 5, pp. 5-14.
44. Sohal, A.S. and Oakland, J.S. (1990), "Teaching production and operations management through participative methods", Production and Inventory Management Journal, Vol. 31, pp. 30-34.
45. Southern, G. (1986), "Teaching the techniques of computer aided production management and simulation modeling", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 6, pp. 15-24.
46. Spearman, M.L. and Hopp, W.J. (1996), "Teaching operations management using factory physics", Proceedings of the 1996 POMS Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
47. Spearman, M.L. and Wallace, J.H. (1998), "Teaching operations management from a science of manufacturing", Production and Operations Management, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 132-145.
48. AACSB (1999), "Demand for business PhDs continues slow rise, while doctoral production falls steadily", AACSB Newsline, Spring.
49. Ala, M. (1987), "How students perceive the benefits of studying production and operations management", Production and Inventory Management Journal, Vol. 28 No. 4, pp. 71-74.
50. Alfalla Luque, R. and DomÍnguez Machuca, J.A. (2002), La Formación en Dirección de Producción/Operaciones. El Caso de la Universidad Española, Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Sevilla, Seville.
51. Armistead, C., Johnston, R. and Voss, C. (1986), "Introducing service industries in operations management teaching", International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 6 No. 3, pp. 21-29.
52. Berry, S.E. and Lancaster, L.M. (1992), "Views of production practitioner on the importance of selected POM topics: 1978 and 1989 practitioners compared", Production and Inventory Management Journal, Vol. 33, pp. 24-30.
53. INE (2002), "Estadística de la Enseñanza Superior en España (EES)", available at: www.ine.es
54. Krajewski, L.J. (1998), "Motivating students in the operations management class: challenges for the publishing industry", Production and Operations Management, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 188-193.
55. Machuca, J.A.D., Ruiz, J.C., Domingo, M.A. and González, M. (1998), "Our ten years of work on transparent box business simulation", plenary paper presented at the Sixteenth International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, Quebec.
56. Martín, J. and Gil, M. (1998), "Año nuevo, sabia nueva", ABC: Nuevo Trabajo, No. 27/12/98, pp. 8-9.
57. Taj, S., Hormozi, A.M. and Mirshab, B. (1996), "Undergraduate academic teaching and manufacturing industry requirement: a comparative analysis", Interfaces, Vol. 26 No. 3, pp. 51-57.