approach to teamwork that moves responsibility for decisions further down the organization chart to the level of the employee actually doing the job Continuous Improvement Management’s view of performance standards of the organization The way management views the contribution and role of its workforce (employee involvement and team efforts are the key to improvement) Key Elements of TQM: Quality is defined by customer Employee involvement Continuous improvement Prevention‚ not inspection
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of Production and Operations Management IIBM Institute of Business Management Examination Paper Production and Operations Management Subject Code-B107 MM.100 Section A: Objective Type & Short Questions (30 marks) This section consists of multiple choice & Short Notes type questions. Answer all the questions. Part one questions carry 1 mark each & Part two questions carry 5 marks each. Part One: Multiple choices: 1. Production and Operations Management concerns itself
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Air Deccan’s basic strategy is to make air travel accessible to every Indian by pricing their services at 30-40 percent of regular airline services. Translating this overall strategy into operations calls for making unique choices in several operational elements. At a broader level‚ this resulted in unique methods adopted for procuring aircraft‚ maintenance‚ ticketing & in-flight services & flight & schedule management policies. This constitutes the operations management process. At the
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Operations Management is concerned with creating efficient resources for the overall planning‚ scheduling and control of activities that are involved in making finished goods and services. "Operations management focuses on carefully managing the processes to produce and distribute products and services" (McNamara‚ 1999). What is ethics? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary‚ it is "a set of moral principles and values." It is a discipline one must deal with when determining what is right
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2 INTELLIGENT AGENTS In which we discuss what an intelligent agent does‚ how it is related to its environment‚ how it is evaluated‚ and how we might go about building one. 2.1 INTRODUCTION An agent is anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon that environment through effectors. A human agent has eyes‚ ears‚ and other organs for sensors‚ and hands‚ legs‚ mouth‚ and other body parts for effectors. A robotic agent substitutes cameras and infrared
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Discuss the effectiveness of management strategies in relation to one tectonic hazard. It is extremely important that there are effective management strategies put in place to help predict‚ prepare and protect from earthquakes. The main aims of these strategies are to reduce loss of life and property damage. MEDCs and LEDCs cope in different ways‚ this is mainly due to affordability of planning and preparation for the future. MEDCs tend to cope better when an earthquake hits‚ because the money
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Introduction Organisational aims Production system as a process Operations Management Introduction Organisational aims Production system as a process Examples Operations Management v1.0 Needs Logistics & Distribution Information Systems ty ty Safe gn reen gnE gniireeniignE 2 Introduction Organisational aims Production outcomes What is a Product? • Need-satisfying offering of an organization – Example • Procter & Gamble does not sell laundry detergent
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these “no hit” files requiring a search. Often these “no hit” files were eventually found stacked in the requester’s office. The primary “customers” of the file clerks were underwriters and claims attorneys. UNDERWRITING Company management and operations analysts were consistently told that the greatest problem in the company was the inability
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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO Operations Management Teaching Notes Many students come to this course with negative feelings‚ perhaps because they have heard that the course includes a certain amount of quantitative material (which many feel uncomfortable with)‚ or perhaps because the course strikes them as “how to run a factory.” Others seem to have very little idea about what operations management is. I view the initial meeting with my classes‚ and this first chapter‚ as opportunities to dispel
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Part 1a Statement 1: “The airport transfers passengers and freight between ground and air.” I agree with statement 1 as stated above. The airport is a facility or a ‘gateway’‚ which bridges passengers and freight from the ground to the aircraft‚ which brings them through the air. At the destination‚ another ‘gateway’ meets them‚ and bridges them from the air back to the ground. The “gateway” uses many other facilities and/or services to ensure a seamless transfer of passenger or freight between
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