Module: Operations management Title: -Operations management and Ethics! - Student: Katerina Zafirovska Lecture: Prof. D-r Aleksandra Shumar Contents: Introduction……………………………………………………………………..….3 1. Operations management…………………………………………..5 2. History of operations management……………………………….6 3. Ethics ……………………………………………………………15 4. Operations management
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Chapter 6 Case Study 1 Job Candidate Assessment Test Go Virtual 1. What do you think are the prime advantages and disadvantages of National City Corporation’s virtual tryouts? The advantages of using virtual tryouts are competitive edge against other companies. Allows them to pick candidates better suited for their work environment‚ allows candidates the knowledge that they are applying for a company that is at the cutting edge of technology and they want to move forward with the times. Unfortunately
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result of a merger of the two largest book stores in Canada- Chapters and indigo. The smaller of the two‚ Indigo‚ bought 50.1% of Chapters’ shares in February 2001 amidst protestation of the latter’s board of directors. During the course of 2001 Indigo slowly but sure acquired more Chapters’ shares completing the takeover at the end of the same year. The merger of the two companies obviously presented major challenges to the management of the new outfit especially with regard to organizational design
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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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MGMT 610- OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT 1. What are the differences between job-enlargement‚ job-enrichment‚ and job-rotation? Discuss the benefits of using each of these. Job design is an approach that specifies the tasks that constitute a job for an individual or a group. There are seven components of job design‚ and JOB expansion is one of them. It includes: • Job enlargement: We add tasks requiring similar skill to an existent job. You are using the same skills‚ but the tasks are different
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affect competitive outcome * DISRUPTIVE-can penetrate and be widely accepted or it can fail and may bring about signification loss/cost an organization according to Christensen * Example: radical innovation of a 3-wheel petrol car to a 4-wheel petrol car which change lives and made it so easy with the convenience of driving or riding. * The move of a four wheel car was a game changer because it was an radical innovation that was widely accepted‚ where it changed lives.
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Organizational Behavior‚ 15e (Robbins/Judge) Chapter 6 Perception and Individual Decision Making 1) ________ is the process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment. A) Sensation B) Impression C) Apprehension D) Attribution E) Perception Answer: E Explanation: E) Perception is defined as a process by which individuals organize and interpret their sensory impressions in order to give meaning to their environment
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PART 1: Chapter IV 2) On page 43‚ Winston states that “it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another.” Explain what he means by this. He means that because there was no laws in oceania‚ Forgery did not exisit he was just simpily changing the words into a new language or a different language. 3) What does “vaporized” mean? What is an “unperson.” Vaporised means to disappear into thin air. In 1984 when you are vaporised you are killed and all
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interviews with the literature review‚ the thesis reveals that environmental responsibility and ecological orientation needs to be based upon the entire business strategy of a company and implemented in its core principles in order to deal
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Unit-4 Secondary objectives of materials management: secondary objectives are limited in number or in scope as primary objectives. Since they represent the materials management contribution to the achievement of primary objectives of some other departments‚ they can vary widely from industry to industry. 1. Reciprocal relations: when a company deliberately buys as much as possible from its own customers it is said to practice reciprocity. 2. New materials and products: engineering and manufacturing
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