This course analyzes complex operating situations faced by technical and business managers. Students learn the role of the operations manager in the enterprise as well as demonstrate an understanding of the scope of an operations strategy. Students develop operations strategies to meet organizational requirements while analyzing operations processes. The course also offers students an opportunity to apply knowledge that contributes to the operations success of organizations.

This course promotes an understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of LEAN processes, and how LEAN thinking can be applied in a variety of contexts and applications. Students will be exposed to a range of LEAN tools that prepare learners to actively participate in LEAN processes and events in support of the development of a LEAN organizational culture. Developing capacity in facilitation and change management, students will prepare to become LEAN practitioners, learning to guide a group through problem solving circumstances, while considering the challenges of organizational change.

OT 855 Level II Fieldwork, I, online discussion is a co-requisite course that accompanies OT 854 and OT 856: Level II Fieldwork. Students respond to instructor-led discussion prompts as well as to postings of their classmates. The online discussion provides the opportunity for students to relate fieldwork experiential learning to all areas of UNH coursework including: mind-body systems, health-and-human systems of care; assessment; intervention; documentation; evidence-based practice; client-centered and occupation-centered practice; and application of research to practice. Students engage in on-going discussion about professional identity and the transition from student to professional as they describe and discuss fieldwork challenges and successes across a variety of practice settings.

Introduction to essential aspects of public and non-profit administration. Critical concepts and theoretical bases; operational nature of public and non-profit administration; contributions of key scholars and practitioners to the study and understanding of public and non-profit administration.