MSCI 404 Organizational BehaviourF,S 3c 0.5
Presents a systematic approach to the study of human behaviour in organizations. It synthesizes different concepts and findings from the behavioural sciences and shows their applications to business. ”
Management Sciences (MSCI)
4 courses in the 1977–78 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Notes
Faculty listed in 1977–78
Professor, Chairman of the Department
S. D. Saleh, BA (Cairo), MA, PhD (Case Western Reserve).
Professor, Associate Chairman and Graduate Officer. S.S. Sengupta, MA, DPhil (Calcutta)
Professors
Faculty listed in 1977–78
D.J. Clough, BASe, MBA (Toronto), PEng
D.W. Conrath, BA (Stanford), MS (Carnegie Tech:), MA, PhD (U.C., Berkeley)
R.F. Love, BASc (Toronto), MBA (Western Ontario), PhD (U.C., Berkeley). (Visiting)
E.A. Silver, BEng (McGill), ScD (M.LT.), PEng
Faculty listed in 1977–78
P.M. Reilly’, BASc (Toronto), DIC PhD (Lundon), FSS, PEng
Associate Professors Bernhardt, BA (N.Y.U.}, PhD (U.C., Berkeley) F.E. Burke, BA (London), PEng M. J. Magazine, BS (CCNY), MS (NYU), MEng, PhD (Florida) J. B. Moore, BASc (Toronto), MMath, PhD (Waterloo)
Assistant Professors
Faculty listed in 1977–78
J.T. Janz, BA (Winnipeg), PhD (Minnesota)
B.S. Jung, BS (Seoul), MASc (Waterfoo), MBA, PhD (Toronto)
R.G. Vickson, BSc (UBC), PhD (MIT)
Adjunct Professor M. Saltsman, MP
Faculty Members holding cross appointments as shown.
Department of Chemical Engineering
Course Descriptions Management Sciences
Undergraduate Course Descriptions
MSci21 FW 3C 5
Applied Probability and Statistics
Axiomatic development of probability. Conditional! probability, Bayes’ Theorem and independence. Discrete and continuous random variables. Special cases of uniform, binomial, Poisson, and normal. Mathematical expectation. Derived distributions. Sampling from normal populations. Estimating parameters and testing hypotheses.
M Sci 23 F,W,S 20,1T 5
Engineering and Managerial Economics
Economics of the firm with emphasis on managerial decisions. Price and output decisions. Choosing among alternative production processes and input combinations. Evaluating make-or-buy decisions, equipment service life, and new products. Analytical tools include marginal analysis, linear programming, and capital budgeting techniques.
MSci31 F,W 20,1T 5
Industrial Statistics and Design of Experiments Linear statistical models. General regression theory and applications. Design of orthogonal! experiments and industrial applications. Correlation coefficient analysis. Elementary time series analysis. Finite popu‘ation sampling and sample survey methods.
Prereq: MSci21 or equivalent
M Sci 43 F,W 2C0,1T 5
Economics of Enterprise and Benefit Cost Analysis Applications of models of household and enterprise behaviour. Seller strategy in consumer and industrial markets. Valuation of nonmarket goods. Examples include use of buyer behaviour data to determine market segments, and evaluation of a public investment. Prereq: M Sci 23 or equivalent
MSci 44 FS 3C 5
industrial Psychology
Considerations of perception, cognition, motivation, job attitudes, and job satisfaction. Discussion of the measurements of performance and procedures for selection to match worker and job. A review of psychological and physiological costs and benefits of work.
MSci 46 F,W,S 2C,1T 5
Optimization Models for Policy Analysis
Basics of linear optimization. Perturbation analysis. imputed costs and benefits. Special applications: transportation, goal programming, decentralization through transfer prices, multiple objectives. Integer linear programming, zero-one, and network flow problems. Linearization techniques. Projected gradient methods. Chance-constrained linear programming.
Management Sciences
MSci 47 F,W,S 2C,1T 5
Stochastic Models of Industrial Operations Classification of stochastic processes. Recurrent events including birth and death processes, and branching processes. Waiting line models and applications. Markov processes and decision problems. Applications include inventory control, reliability, equipment replacement, maintenance, design of service facilities, etc.
Prereq: M Sci 21, or equivalent, and M Sci 46
MSci53 FLW 3c 5
Decision Theory and Organization
Group interactions and the problems of industrial macro-organizations. Discussion of organizational decision-making and control process, with particular emphasis on the relevant theories of structural relations of organizations.
MSCI 405 " Managerial EconomicsF,W,S 2C,1T 0.5
Designed to give an appreciation of the usefulness of basic concepts from economics in managerial decision making. Topics include costs (as foregone opportunities and in accounting terms), production as a process in time relating costs to benefits.
MSCI 406 Managerial Decision Making 1F,W,S 2C,1T 0.5
Equipment replacement problems. Formulation and solution of linear programming models for managerial decision-making. Special linear models: transportation, assignment, and network models. Critical path methods and PERT analysis. Introduction to dynamic programming. Some problems in inventory control.
MSCI 407 Managerial Decision Making 2F,W,S 2C,1T 0.5
Introduction to decision problems under risk. Utility and other criteria for risky decisions. Waiting-line systems. Markov processes and their application to industrial decision problems. Elements of simulation. Inventory control in an uncertain environment.
Prereq: M Sci 406, or equivalent