Title : 
Toy manufacturing as part of management education
         
        
            Author : 
Balashova, Maria ; Pavlovskaya, Irina
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
St. Petersburg Electrotech. Univ. LETI, St. Petersburg, Russia
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Business game as an imitating active learning method was first applied in a practical management sphere, but now more and more widely used in higher education field. In order to involve students in the learning process and consider in a practical example some theoretical issues, studied by students in various disciplines earlier, we developed a business game “Production process”. The essence of the game is to organize a real process of paper airplanes production by students and improve this process by using quality management methods and tools. The article gives a description of the business game “Production process” (its goals and objectives, the sequence of its implementation and its interaction with a process of quality management studying). In the article conclusion there are descriptions of several ways of further development of our business game.
         
        
            Keywords : 
entertainment; further education; management education; quality management; active learning method; business game; higher education; management education; production process; quality management; toy manufacturing; Airplanes; Engineering education; Games; Production; Quality management; Active learning; business game; quality of education;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Conference (ElConRusNW), Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE NW Russia Young Researchers in
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
St. Petersburg
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4799-2593-3
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ElConRusNW.2014.6839191