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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1885 when Frederick W. Taylor emphasised the application of scientific analysis to methods of production. The name (OR) probably came from a programme under taken by Great Britain during world war2‚ “research in military operations”. After the success of OR in military operations‚ it quickly spread to all phases of Industry and Government. By 1951‚ OR had take place as a distinct science in the United States. Hence it is said that Or is “the art of winning war without actually fighting it”. OPERATIONAL
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A Category 5 hurricanes with devastate the state that your in because of how powerful the winds are and being the fact that it’s a category 5.To prepare for a category 5 hurricane a person should come up with an evacuation plan ‚ protect your house ‚ and prepare your car. These three facts are the most important keys to surviving a category 5 hurricane. First if the media says that the hurricane is a category 5‚ your automatically going to have to evacuate. In the article “This is what a category
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PGBM03 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Module Guide & Study Material Pack Module Leader: Dr Tie Xu SUNDERLAND BUSINESS SCHOOL PGBM03 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Welcome to PGBM03 Operations Management This module is designed to give an introduction to that part of the organization which is responsible for creating and delivering its products and services. Organizations only continue to exist if they meet their customers’ requirements. Whilst “Marketing” has the role of identifying these requirements
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3 Basic manufacturing cost categories: Direct Materials Cost: The materials that go into final product are called raw materials. Direct Labor Cost: The term direct labor is reserved for those labor costs that can be essentially traced to individual units of products. Direct labor is sometime called touch labor‚ since direct labor workers typically touch the product while it is being made. Manufacturing Overhead Cost: Manufacturing overhead‚ the third element of manufacturing cost‚ includes
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There is no universal category of Childhood. Discuss. To have a universal category of Childhood‚ all first hand and second hand experiences of Childhood must be the same to a certain degree. The term “universal” demands that all definitions and takes on the term must be the same without any equivocation. The interest in the concept of Childhood in terms of Sociology has increased massively since the 1980’s (Mayall 2002‚ James et al. 1998‚ Prout 2000‚ Lee 2001). Many Sociologists have analysed Childhood
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race‚ class‚ or even gender? The book To Kill a Mockingbird is written by Harper Lee in 1960. This book focuses on a trial in Maycomb that talks about the social categories found there. Race‚ class‚ and gender are huge categories that even affect people today in 2016 in America. Therefore‚ in Maycomb‚ one can observe the social categories such as race‚ class‚ and gender and how they can affect such a small town. First‚ race is a key determining factor in Maycomb in how one is treated in their community
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Operational Management Operations management is defined as a systematic transformation process that converts a set of inputs into useful outputs. 1.1 Definitions: An operations system is defined as one in which several activities are performed to transform a set of inputs into a useful output using a transformation process. These inputs and outputs can be tangible‚ as in the case of raw materials and physical products‚ or intangible‚ as in the case of information and experiences. Viewed
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Categories of Reducing Stress Life isn’t always a bouquet full of roses on a sunny day. In fact‚ it tends to mix in a little bit of rainy days and maybe even some dead leaves. This is what stress can do to a person’s life. It can take the best day and turn it into the absolute worst. People also spend so much time worrying and giving in to the pressure that they forget that stress can be completely absent from life if some effort is put forth. There are three different categories of great ways to
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Ch3 – O.M 1) Strategic decisions are those which: A) Only involve senior managers B) Require the input of external consultants and management accountants. C) Seek to move the whole organisation towards its overall long-term goals D) Define the position of a business unit with respect to its operational capabilities 2) The determination of performance priorities is normally influenced by: A) The specific needs of the company’s customer
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