Chapter 2 Operations performance Source: Honda Motor Company Slack‚ Chambers and Johnston‚ Operations Management 5th Edition © Nigel Slack‚ Stuart Chambers‚ and Robert Johnston 2007 Key teaching objectives • Why is operations performance important in any organization? • How does the operations function incorporate all stakeholders’ objectives? • What does top management expect from the operations function? • What are the performance objectives of operations and what are the internal
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Human Resources Enterprise Background Mabuchi Motor Company is the world ’s number one manufacturer of small electric motors. The company holds 70% of the market for motors used with automotive‚ toys‚ computer‚ industry. All started in 1946 when Kenichi Mabuchi (now the company ’s honorary chairman) founded "Kansai Rika Kenkyusho‚" a scientific research institute. He created the world ’s first high performance horseshoe-shaped magnetic motor in 1947. On January 18‚ 1954‚ Kansai Rika Kenkyusho
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The organization’s association with Quirky‚ a NYC startup that crowdsources for plans and produces the top choices‚ is one case. Particular is a social item advancement organization that brings new item plans to life through its online shared stage. Another joint effort in the middle of GE and Quirky that will permit everybody to take an interest in the improvement of new items. The collaboration will comprise of two sections: another stage where GE will open a great many its most guaranteeing licenses
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Tata Motors was founded in 1945‚ as Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company to manufacture locomotives and engineering products. In 1945‚ Tata began production of steam road rollers with the collaboration with UK manufacture Marshall Sons (Gamble‚ Peteraf‚ & Thompson‚ 2015). In 1994‚ Tata Motors began a joint venture with Damier-Benz/Mercedes Benz to manufacture Mercedes-Benz passenger cars in India (Gamble‚ Peteraf‚ & Thompson‚ 2015). In 2003‚ Tata Engineering changed its name to Tata Motors Limited
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Honda Motor Company is a multinational Company. Honda Company is found in Japan at the early first time. Then‚ Honda Company starts to spread to other nation such as Europe‚ United State‚ and Asia. How can this company structure itself so successful? Now‚ we look into their company structure. Honda Company is using the matrix structure. Matrix organizations are flexible‚ because they allow different dimensions of the organizations to be mixed together. For example: the organization of environment
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Honda Motor Company‚ Ltd. and Toyota Motor Corporation An Engineering 111 Case Study By James Barbour‚ Daniel Hui‚ Chaereena Sarabian‚ Melissa Shafer‚ Christopher Woo Introduction The automotive industry in the past couple of years has seen its fair share of problems. Following the recession of the economy and the bailout of the American car companies the future of the automotive industry looked pretty bleak. However throughout all the
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Administration and Politics Dichotomy When taking the time to analyze a little more the subject of public administration there are several things to keep in mind. Even though it may seem a bit difficult to define Public administration in order to be able to specify in detail all the areas and roles it plays in our country. Public Administration has been established in order to assist with the good order and discipline. It has been place to empower our country by implementing rules and policies
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MATRICULATION NO : IDENTITY CARD NO. : TELEPHONE NO. : E-MAIL : LEARNING CENTRE : TABLE OF CONTENT CASE STUDY : BRISTOL-MEYERS SQUIBB 2011 1. Case Abstract Bristol Meyers Squibb (BMY) is a comprehensive strategic management case that includes the company’s year-end 2010 financial statements‚ organizational chart‚ competitor information and more. The case time setting is the year 2011. Sufficient internal and external data are provided to enable evaluation of current strategies
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Summary of findings 1. Majority of the males prefer to own the car of Tata Motors than females because most of the car owners are taxi drivers and few people use car for personal use. 2. Majority of the customers are in the age group of above 45 years which shows that Tata Motors is focusing more on old generation. 3. Majority of the customers are earning the income between Rs. 100000-250000 per annum. 4. Majority of the Tata Motors customers own the car of Tata Indigo and Tata Indica because most of the
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General Motors Case Study #3 Problem Summary: One of the most serious problems that GM faces is when the firm announced a $10.6 billion loss‚ which was their first in 12 years. The auditors for General Motors even thought that the firm’s survival was in substantial doubt even if they received the additional $30 billion they were going to borrow from the federal government. The problems have grown as a result of mistakes by GM’s management over the last 30 years. They built up a bloated bureaucracy
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