| Department of Production Management
The Department offers a four-year Bachelor of Science in Production Management programme. It is the only degree course of its kind in Zambia. The programme was introduced in 1992 with the aim of equipping students to work in an industrial environment or undertake specialisation, including research. The specific roles envisaged for graduates from the course are in the following areas:
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Product Cost Accounting, Production Planning and Control, Wage and Bonus Administration, Quality Assurance Management, Materials Administration and Management, Product and Production Estimating, Purchasing, Production Supervision, Industrial Engineering, Human Resource Management, Production Research, Education Training, and General Management. |
Production Management focuses on the way that organisations produce goods and services and as such is concerned with the design, organisation, planning and control of the activities of the business enterprise, whether in the profit or non-profit sectors.
The issues, objectives, problems and decisions involved in Production Management are brought into light through lectures, tutorials, demonstration, group discussions, visits, presentations, projects and a dissertation.
In the fourth year, a student undertakes project work under the supervision of a member of staff and submits a report which is assessed by the panel of members of staff. In addition, two industrial attachment periods (i.e., between the second and third years, and between the third and fourth years), have been incorporated into the programme with the view of giving students real life industrial exposure. At the end of each attachment, a student writes a report which, together with the performance during the attachment, are assessed as either satisfactory or unsatisfactory. |
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