Past Year Questions OPM 530 COMPILATION OF PAST YEAR QUESTIONS OPM 530 – INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT JAN 2014 – APRIL 2007 CHAPTER 1- Introduction to Operations Management and Productivity DEC 2013/JAN2014 a) Define Operations Management (2 marks) b) Explain any for(4) reasons why we need to study Operations Management (8 marks) JUN 2012 a) Define productivity and elaborate on any four (4) importance of productivity to an organization. (10 marks) b) Discuss any
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Destination Network Unreachable for Type of Service 12 Destination Host Unreachable for Type of Service 13 Communication Administratively Prohibited [RFC1812] 14 Host Precedence Violation [RFC1812] 15 Precedence cutoff in effect [RFC1812] 4 Source Quench [RFC792] Codes 0 No Code 5 Redirect
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____ 13. If a provision in the Florida state constitution conflicts with a provision in the U.S. Constitution a. neither provision applies. b. the provisions are balanced to reach a compromise. c. the state constitution takes precedence. d. the U.S. Constitution takes precedence. ____ 14. As a judge‚ Nora decides cases that involve principles of administrative law‚ case law‚ civil law‚ and statutory law. Common law is a. administrative law. b. case law. c. civil law. d. statutory law. 1 ____
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happen rather than describe or predict. Prediction requires “correlations” while Explanations require “causations” or understanding the cause and effect. Three conditions of establishing “causations” 1. Correlation between two constructs 2. Temporal precedence ( the cause must precede the effect in time) 3. Rejection of alternative hypothesis through testing. Two types of Explanations 1. Idiographic Explanations- are those that explain a single situation or event in idiosyncratic detail. 2. Nomothetic
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usually takes precedence over personal health‚ family and friends. And Amy and Lori’s friendship is of great importance too‚ given the long time they spent together as well as the help they offered to each other before. This supplementary information reflects what a difficult position Amy runs into. In my opinion‚ regardless how complicated or fatal the dilemma is‚ laws always come first in decision making process. Avoidance the risk of jail‚ by all means‚ should take precedence over any kind
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Wear® boot product. Since these boots are steel-tipped‚ production is more complex and take longer to produce than other standard Shuzworld products. Catherine Pang‚ Line Manager‚ provided an existing Rugged Work Wear® boot assembly schedule (precedence diagram) denoting times at each station and a layout of the production line. Justification Line balancing is the methodology of equalizing the amount of work at each workstation. The principles of line balancing are needed to improve the efficiency
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version of the Highway Code based on some ancient text or on the position of the moon. In general the 12 rules of the Indian road code are: ARTICLE I The assumption of immortality is required of all road users. ARTICLE II The following Order of Precedence must be accorded at all times. In descending order give way to: cows‚ elephants‚ heavy trucks‚ buses‚ official cars‚ camels‚ light trucks‚ buffalo‚ jeeps‚ ox-carts‚ private cars‚ motorcycles‚ scooters‚ auto-rickshaws‚ pigs‚ pedal rickshaws‚ goats
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breakdown structure of a specific construction project. Gantt charts serve as an excellent tool to show updated schedule status using actual complete shadings and vertical line representing the actual date. Gantt charts sometimes are prepared showing precedence activities and following activities and their relationships. Gantt chart advantages Using a Gantt chart offers the following advantages: * Gantt charts can be used to represent phases and activities of a project so they can be understood by
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1. Do you believe the Bush administration was correct in imposing tariffs in March 2002 on a wide range of steel imports? I believe that President Bush needed to do something to protect the US steel market. At the time that President Bush decided to impose temporary tariffs on steel imports‚ 16 steel manufactures were already operating under bankruptcy protection (Hill‚ 2005). The whole idea of the tariffs as explained by Leo Gerard‚ the president of the United Steelworkers of America‚ was to protect
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