Identify and create an analysis of five resources to teach students key supply chain management concepts, trends, and issues.

As the instructor for this MBA class, you must supply the reading materials for your students to understand the current trends and issues in supply chain management. What professional, informative literature reviews and empirical articles best teach your material, and why?

Appropriate resources may include textbooks, scholarly research articles, reports on practitioner research, or videos. The key is selecting current materials, addressing the aspects of a topic you want to focus on, and at the appropriate level for your students. You should also consider how the resources will fit together collectively to give your students a comprehensive view and understanding of what you are trying to teach.

Overview

For this assessment, you will research various resources to teach your MBA supply chain course, then select and analyze five resources relevant to your course content and objectives.

Instructions

Review the resources from the Topic Exploration Quickstart Literature Guide: Global Operations & Supply Chain Management. This guide presents current and relevant scholarly, academic, and practitioner resources related to supply chain management. Your first step for this assessment is to select five appropriate resources that your MBA students would engage with to help learn the baseline supply chain management knowledge they need, as well as illustrate the three critical current trends and issues that you have identified to teach your students (that is, which current trends or topics you discussed in your welcome video).

As you are selecting the five resources, remember to consider the following:

• Relevance to the current trends, issues, and best practices related to supply chain management or foundational concepts and frameworks related to supply chain management.
• Relevance of information to the concepts you are planning to teach.
• Variety of resource types:
  • Have you selected a mix of textbook readings, peer-reviewed journal articles, professional practitioner articles, and multimedia?
• The planned use of the resource in the course and what objective it will specifically teach your MBA students.
• The degree to which the resources fit with the adult learning framework, Bloom’s taxonomy, and personal teaching philosophy you are applying to your course.
  • Refer to your course readings when considering this item. 

Once you have identified your five resources, write a 3–5 page analysis in which you address the following within the context of the MBA course you are teaching:

• Summarize the significant takeaways of current trends and issues in supply change management and foundational supply chain management concepts and frameworks.
• Synthesize how the selected resources illustrate the three established trends or issues in supply chain management to be taught in your MBA course.
• Explain how the chosen resources are appropriate for your MBA students and supportive of the course objectives.
• Reflect on the degree to which the resources and your planned use fit with the adult-learning framework and personal teaching philosophy you are applying to your course.