Management science methods
Management science deals with decision making within a managerial context. It encompasses a number of systematic approaches to management decision making. The distinctive feature of management science is the construction of an explicit, simplified model of relevant aspects of the decision making situation under study. Such models are often based on quantitative mathematical approaches, but may at times have a more qualitative character.
- Problem structuring and problem structuring methods
- Network analysis
- Inventory control
- Mathematical programming
- Linear programming
- Data envelopment analysis
- Multicriteria decision making
- Decision making under uncertainty
- Markov processes
- Queueing theory and simulation
If you complete the course successfully, you should be able to:
- discuss the main techniques and problem structuring methods used within Management Science
- critically appraise the strengths and limitations of these techniques and problem structuring methods
- carry out simple exercises using such techniques and problem structuring methods themselves (or explain how they should be done)
- commission more advanced exercises.
- Anderson, D.R., D.J. Sweeney and T.A. Williams. An Introduction to Management Science: Quantitative Approaches to Decision Making. South-Western Publishing.
- Rosenhead, J. and J. Mingers (eds) Rational Analysis for a Problematic World Revisited: Problem Structuring Methods for Complexity, Uncertainty and Conflict. Chichester: John Wiley.
