An examination of how companies manage processes to produce the products or services required by their customers, including product design, supply chain management, quality, inventory, and planning.
This course includes the following units:

Unit 1: Overview of Operations Management
Unit 2: Operations Strategy
Unit 3: Product Design and Process Selection
Unit 4: Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Unit 5: Just-In-Time and Lean Systems
Unit 6: Capacity Planning and Facility Layout
Unit 7: Work Systems Design
Unit 8: Inventory
Unit 9: Quality Management

Business Communication: Strategies for Success focuses on the application of communication within the business and professional context. This resource explores how to sharpen and hone oral communication skills in professional interactions including selection interviews, workplace relationships, groups/teams, and in presentation contexts. 

Overview: An introduction to the business co-op project and presentation requirement

Author: Prof. Kevin Hale, San Jacinto College Faculty

OER Provider: San Jacinto College

Creative Commons License: CC BY 4.0

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. However, some of the images contained within are licensed under CC-BY ver 2.0 or 3.0.

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This resource is a Visual Template that can be used for providing the content and assignments for a module in a course.  This template has links for all of the required assignments that the student needs to complete in one visual document.

Business Writing For Everyone is an inclusive guide to writing in the workplace. The book takes a process-oriented, storytelling approach to composition: focusing less on genre and more on the decisions that effective business communicators make. Business Writing For Everyone also contains interactive H5P activities for students to test their learning, and activities for further reflection that instructors can use in the classroom or assign as homework.

This resource from the U.S. Census Bureau provides examples of Visualizations that can be utilized to discuss the various elements of statistics: Data Collection, Data Representation, Data Analysis, and Data Interpretation.

This text provides the student with an introduction to communication in a business and professional setting with the focus on exploring the common human communication behaviors that are at play in organizations as well as in life. The text is divided into five parts that cover the process of human communication, organizational communication and culture, interpersonal communication, interviewing, communicating in groups and teams, meetings, and building effective presentations.Originally, the development of these materials arose from the desire of the Speech Communication Discipline at El Paso Community College to provide SPCH 1321 students with a cost-effective textbook that was similar in content to the other textbook choices. This textbook is a revision of the initial OER materials and adds new information from a variety of OER sources.  

Communication is the heart of business. Short emails, complex reports, private chats, impassioned pitches, formal presentations, and team meetings move information and ideas around an organization, define strategy, and drive decisions. Business communication is concise, direct, clear, and compelling.

This resource is a publication created by the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley's Center for Border Economic Studies. This resource provides regional research studies that can be utilized to discuss various aspects of statistics including: data collection, data representation, data analysis, and data interpretation.

This shows how to run a stock project throughout the semester and includes the initial instructions for the students, a sample first report, and a sample final report for the students.  Students will learn how stocks are purchased, how markets react to news, and is an excellent way to discuss various topics throughout the semester.  Review the instructions for faculty for a more detailed explanation of how to make it work.