Past Year Questions OPM 530 COMPILATION OF PAST YEAR QUESTIONS OPM 530 – INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT JAN 2012 – OCTOBER 2006 CHAPTER 1- Introduction to Operations Management and Productivity JUN2012 a) Define productivity and elaborate on any four (4) importance of productivity to an organization. (10 marks) b) Discuss any five (5) challenged faced by today’s operations managers (10 marks) APR 2011 a) Define operations management with the aid of appropriate diagram. b) Discuss any
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Past‚ Present‚ and Future Juanita Bright GEN 480 January 2‚ 2013 Professor P. Gobin Past‚ Present‚ and Future In this three-part paper I will reflect on my personal and professional growth during my program of study at the University of Phoenix. In part one‚ I will reflect upon where I was in my personal and professional life when I started the University of Phoenix program. Part two I will evaluate the growth I experienced during my University of Phoenix program of study. Finally
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then humankind has been developing at an exponential rate. Truly amazing and useful devices‚ such as the steam engine and telegraph‚ were invented. In the last 100 years‚ many inventions and innovations have been created that make society’s life better‚ and four devices stand out as the most useful: the jet airplane‚ the television‚ the laptop computer‚ and the cell phone. The first most useful invention is the airplane‚ invented in 1903 by the Wright brothers. The airplane has transformed not
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The book Silencing The Past is about how people “silence” the past through selective memories to benefit us in the present. We pick out certain events and either dramatize them or play them down to the point of no importance. This paper is about both our played up dramas and our forgotten realities. In the first chapter of the book the author Michel-Roth Trouillot he brings up the story of the Alamo. He shows the reader how the same story can be viewed in completely different ways. He starts by
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In 2005‚ Steve Jobs had a commencement speech about connecting the dots‚ he said “you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.” Now while I am looking back in my past‚ I found out myself really clear about how it related to my decision today. My childhood was associated with fold games. Blind man’s buff‚ cat and mouse game‚ dragon snake‚ hide and seek‚ marbles were games I usually played after school with kids in my neighborhood. The world in my mind was
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Mythology the Past and Present Nike is the winged goddess of victory according to Greek mythology. She sat at the side of Zeus‚ the ruler of the Olympic pantheon‚ in Olympus. A mystical presence‚ symbolizing victorious encounters‚ Nike presided over history’s earliest battlefields. A Greek would say‚ "When we go to battle and win‚ we say it is Nike." Synonymous with honored conquest‚ Nike is the twentieth century footwear that lifts the world’s greatest athletes to new levels of mastery and achievement
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World Civilization 2 How do the events of the past affect your life and how will a study of the past help you better understand the mentalities of today? Events in the past are very essential to individuals and even the society. Events in the past have many ways on impacting a person`s life. History can help one to understand the people and the society in which they live‚ also why things are they way they are presently‚ and more importantly it can help as a learning experience. History offers
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Relationship of the Past in My Antonia “Some memories are realities‚ and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again”; this quote by Willa Cather expresses the relationship that the past can have on humans. Some would argue that the past has no role in My Antonia‚ almost as if the overall lesson of the novel had gone right over their head. Willa Cather has written the whole novel in flashback form‚ and this has a great effect on the reader. She is trying to show that you can
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Africa’s Golden Past “Africa’s Golden Past” was a very interesting article I’ve read. I’ve learned about the different countries in Africa. I’ve learn the many different art forms Africa have for example‚ languages‚ of different sorts‚ wars that occur in our great Motherland‚ and great achievements of Kings. I learn about different cultures that Africa has to offer. There were many parts of Africa that was very wealthy with gold. After reading through “Africa’s Golden Past” I believe argument
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Past and Current Trends Daniel Muldoon Psy/425 May 20th‚ 2013 Barbara Nosal Past and Current Trends Illicit drug use in the United States has been around for many years. Just because it has been around for this long does not mean that it is good for the people. This type of illegal activity has been known to bring around violence‚ gangs‚ prostitution‚ and other illegal activities. To see how the use of illegal drugs has evolved‚ one must look at the past trends of drug use and the current
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