Content Page Introduction 1 Interviewee #1 2 Interviewee #2 3 Interviewee #3 4 Analysis 6 Discussion
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Chapter 1 Operations and productivity 1. Why should one study operations management? We study OM for four reasons. We study how people organize themselves for productive enterprise. We study OM because we want to know how goods and services are produced. We study OM to understand what operations managers do. We study OM because it is such a costly part of an organization. Productivity can be measured in a variety of ways‚ such as by labor‚ capital‚ energy‚ material usage‚ and so on. At Modern
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CHAPTER 1 Operations management Short case: Dealing with variety – two examples The Bombay Tiffin Box Suppliers Association (TBSA) operates a service to transport home-cooked food from workers’ homes to office locations in downtown Bombay. Workers from residential districts must ride commuter trains some 30–40 km to work. Typically‚ they are conservative diners‚ and are also constrained by strong cultural taboos on food handling by caste‚ which discourage eating out. TBSA arranges for food
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PART I: INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 - MANAGERS AND MANAGEMENT LEARNING OUTCOMES After reading this chapter students will be able to: 1. Tell who managers are and where they work. 2. Define management. 3. Describe what managers do. 4. Explain why it‘s important to study management. 5. Describe the factors that are reshaping and redefining management. Opening Vignette – The Man Behind an African Megabrand SUMMARY Herman Mashaba‚ along with two business partners‚ founded the South African Black Like Me
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Q‚ Explain how someone can be a manager but not a leader‚ a leader but not a manager‚ and both a manager and a leader? Answer: The discussion between management and leadership has been considerable for a number of years. Differentiation between leadership and management is important. There is difference between manager and leader but both are important. Manger has to manage which means to accomplish and to bring about‚ to conduct and to feel the responsibility. On the other hand‚ Leader leads
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Case Study Maple Leaf Shoes Ltd. “Selection of a Human Resources Manager” Discussion question 1: The problem with Maples Leaf Shoes Ltd. was that the company did not have an experienced‚ qualified‚ skilled and knowledgeable manager to deal with the company’s day-to-day human resource activities like union negotiation and recruitment. A human resource manager plans strategies and handles the short and long-term challenges facing the company’s increasing global completion‚ increasing labor and
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The ability to ‘motivate people’ is considered to be a prime task of management. Managers‚ increasingly‚ have to act as coaches and guides in order to align the strategic goals of the organization with the demands and needs of individual employees. At the core of this aligning process is the manager’s skill to understand what does ‘motivate’ an individual to reliably and consistently commit their energy and talent to the organizational goal. Motivation theories are routinely drawn on to understand
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Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity by Carmen Nobel Introduction The source of this article is a research done by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan S. Bernstein in which he explains how decreasing workplace transparency can increase the productivity of employees. This paper will analyze Bernstein’s research which was conducted on a technologically advanced manufacturer’s plant in Southern China‚ where measures were taken to impose transparency to ensure higher productivity
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Operation Flood was a rural development programme started by India’s National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in 1970. One of the largest of its kind‚ the programme objective was to create a nationwide milk grid. It resulted in making India the largest producer of milk and milk products‚ and hence is also called the White Revolution of India. It also helped reduce malpractices by milk traders and merchants. This revolution followed the Indian Green Revolution and helped in alleviating poverty and
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could be gotten by adding survey questions to a receipt given to a customer with a few questions relating to the Pareto chart (Ex B). This can also be done by observation of host (ess) when times are not busy noting customers body language. Also managers can go around to tables and ask how their meal was‚ and if anything was unsatisfactory. The important thing is to have a log of this data‚ which can be analyzed‚ at the end of each week and solutions implemented at the beginning of each week to try
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