Operations Management Chapter 1 – Operations and Productivity PowerPoint presentation to accompany Heizer/Render Principles of Operations Management‚ 7e Operations Management‚ 9e © 2008 Prentice Hall‚ Inc. 1–1 Outline Global Company Profile: Hard Rock Cafe What Is Operations Management? Organizing to Produce Goods and Services Why Study OM? What Operations Managers Do How This Book Is Organized © 2008 Prentice Hall‚ Inc. 1–2 Outline - Continued The Heritage of Operations
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need for maintaining continuity and survival. Motivating the staff leads to broaden their skills to meet the organizational demands. The need for achievement always results in a desire for employees to do extra effort to have something done better and have the desire for success. Motivation creates a productive employee who save time and effort. Thus‚ the motivated employee volunteers to do more than what is expected and more successful achievement than others. Such employee could be a good resource
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March 2001 Edited by Dr. Alastair Hicks‚ Bangkok‚ Thailand. Published by the Asian Productivity Organization 1-2-10 Hirakawacho‚ Chiyoda-ku‚ Tokyo 102-0093‚ Japan Tel: (81-3) 5226 3920 • Fax: (81-3) 5226 3950 E-mail: apo@apo-tokyo.org • URL: www.apo-tokyo.org Disclaimer and Permission to Use This document is a part of the above-titled publication‚ and is provided in PDF format for educational use. It may be copied and reproduced for personal use only. For all other purposes‚ the APO ’s permission
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has been regarded as a means toward economic stability and progress. The increase productivity of the workforce is due mainly to the increase in the education and training of the people. The success and development of the country would greatly depend in the productivity of its human resources – which is considered as one of the vital asset of the nation. And to have a good and competent manpower resource; quality education and intensive training are necessary for the students to become skilled
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10 steps to improve productivity By Roger Thomas of Methods Workshop Introduction The general level of efficiency in this country is around 35-45% this leaves great potential for improvement. Efficiency levels should be 75 -85%‚ and if achieved the industry will be impregnable. With a short span before China’s quotas are lifted real productivity improvements are essential! The 10 steps: 1. Management commitment. 2. Training and empowerment 3. Fabric saving 4. Work Study 5. Times and methods 6. Measuring
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What is quality? Quality is a measure of how good and satisfying a product is to the consumer. The ISO standard explains quality as "the totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bears its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs." Meaning that the quality of a product/service is defined in matter of the features it presents to the customer and the rate of satisfaction it is providing to its user/consumer. The quality depends not only on its features it depends on the
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quality management history‚ gurus‚ TQM theories‚ process improvement‚ and organizational ’excellence’ The history of quality management‚ from mere ’inspection’ to Total Quality Management‚ and its modern ’branded interpretations such as ’Six Sigma’‚ has led to the development of essential processes‚ ideas‚ theories and tools that are central to organizational development‚ change management‚ and the performance improvements that are generally desired for individuals‚ teams and organizations. These
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MANAGEMENT OF QUALITY Introduction Quality refers to the ability of a product or service to consistently meet or exceed customer requirements or expectations. Different customers will have different requirements‚ so a working definition of quality is customer-dependent. In order to rebuild its economy after the Second World War‚ Japan focused on quality improvement‚ making it a national imperative. This took place during a time when quality was not uppermost in the minds of business organizations
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802008629 BUS 9551 SFB May 11‚ 2012 Improving Higher Education Cost Efficiency with Technology and Program Accountability Executive Summary: In the last two decades college costs have risen by 429 percent‚ a rate higher than the increase rate for health care (Sheets‚ 2012). To encourage colleges to increase value and efficiency‚ the government is offering $55 million in grant money to colleges which can reduce costs for students (Cooper‚ 2012). In the past twenty years‚ cost reduction solutions
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EFFECT OF POSTPONEMENT ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF AN ORGANIZZATION Introduction:- Over the past few decades‚ logistics activities have gained increasing strategic importance for almost every company all over the world. Fixed costs of production have increased‚ consumer demands have become more complex and are harder to predict‚ both in time and place. Technology is rapidly changing around the world every new day there is a new and advance technology and product life cycles have shortened while product
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