Title: Teaching operations management for students' thinking and decision-making

Authors: Bowon Kim

Addresses: KAIST College of Business, Seoul, 02455, South Korea

Abstract: This is an exploratory study to examine whether teaching and learning operations management (OM) can have significant effects on students' thinking and decision-making. We postulate that such effects can be inferred by observing whether the students' responses to actual OM issues converge with each other, i.e., become similar, after taking an OM course together. To prove the proposition, we collected and analysed survey data from Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) students who took an OM course in the same class at a university in Korea. Comparing their answers to the survey questions about actual OM issues on the first day with those on the last day of the class, we have confirmed the hypothesis that classroom teaching would make students converge in their thinking and decision-making regarding OM.

Keywords: operations management teaching; manager's thinking; decision-making.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIOME.2024.143740

International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education, 2024 Vol.7 No.4, pp.332 - 347

Received: 18 Mar 2024
Accepted: 27 May 2024
Published online: 06 Jan 2025 *

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