...Assignment # 1 Operations Management (MS 492) Case Study 1 Hightone Electronics, Inc (HEI) George Gonzales, operations director of Hightone Electronics, Inc. (HEI), sat quietly at the conference table overlooking the lobby of the corporate headquarters office in Palo Alto, California. He reflected on the board meeting that had just adjourned and the challenge that lay ahead for him. The board had just announced their decision to start an Internet-based division of HEI. Web-based purchasing in the electronics industry had been growing rapidly. The board felt that HEI needed to offer on-line purchasing to its customers in order to maintain its competitive position. The board looked to George to outline the key operations management decisions that needed to be addressed in creating a successful Internet-based business. The next board meeting was just a week away. He had his work cut out for him. Hightone Electronics, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California over 50 years ago. Originally, the company provided radio components to small repair shops. Products were offered for sale through a catalog that was mailed to prospective customers every four months. The company built its reputation on high quality and service. As time passed, HEI began supplying more than just radio parts, adding items such as fuses, transformers, computers, and electrical testing equipment. The expansion of the product line had been coupled with an increase in the number and type of customers the...
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...CREATURE CARE CLINIC (A) BA2020 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT CHAPTER 1 PG. 26 LeAnne Baker Creature Care Animal Clinic has a few major flaws in how they are currently operating. Dr. Barr had a great vision but unfortunately her customers have slighty different needs. Dr. Barr needs to adjust her hours and set up an inventory management system and place one person in charge of inventory. This will help reduce expiration waste, duplicate items, out of stock issues and of course cost. She may need to hire a person or two to even out the work load. With a few minor adjustments I think that Animal Care Clinic can adjust to meet the customers needs. 1) Since Operations Management is the central core of every business, it is necessary to ensure all aspects are being properly managed. The role of operations management is to transform a company’s inputs into the finished goods or services. Inputs include human resources (such as workers and managers), facilities and processes (such as buildings and equipment), as well as materials, technology, and information. (Reid & Sanders 2010). Based on this Dr. Barr has multiple operation management problems in controlling, planning and organizing her business. Dr. Barr does not have appropriate staffing and hours to service what her customers need and when. She also has an inventory control issue or lack of inventory control all together. The office manager or assistant should be put in charge of inventory to control stock and...
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...Ch. 1 Creature Care Animal Clinic (A) 1. Identify the operations management problem that Dr. Barr is having at the Clinic. a. Dr. Barr is having scheduling problems, the lack of technology for their inventory systems, and not using the operations systems correctly 2. The schedule Dr. Barr set up worked well at the clinic where she was a resident. What are some of the reason why it might not be working here? b. Some reasons why the scheduling isn’t working are because it isn’t based on when the clinic is the busiest during the day. Also that Dr. Barr doesn’t have a full understand of how her business operates. 3. Identify some of the reasons why the clinic is having inventory problem. c. The clinic is having inventory problems is because the clinic needs to have better technology. With that newer technology Dr. Barr could avoid unexpected situations and know what the clinic has in the inventory. 4. What should Dr. Barr have done differently to avoid some of the problems she is currently experiencing? d. Dr. Barr should set up a system for the inventory to make sure inventory isn’t low or too high. She should also change the schedule around to make sure she has enough staff working during the busiest time of day. Also if Dr. Yen can’t work every Saturday with Dr. Barr then she should fire someone who can help her on Saturdays. The last thing Dr. Barr could do to avoid some problems is to give people different tasks to do when the clinic...
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...In the Vet Clinic Question 1 a) Name and describe three (3) ways an animal may show you that they are stressed. A great many people who live with canines perceive a percentage of the "greater" pieces of information that a canine's on edge, 1. Uncomfortable, or out and out frightened -groveling, 2. whimpering, and a tucked tail, to name only three.more unobtrusive signs. They for the most part don't reflect all out frenzy, however they let you know that all's not exactly right 3. On the off chance that we can interpret our pooches' 4. Leashing the skin behind while walking non-verbal communication, we can ransom delicate puppies before they get overpowered. Furthermore even boneheaded, giddy sorts may discover a few circumstances excessively for them. Come to consider it, viewing them nearly may uncover that they're not such blockheads truth be told. When we perceive our canines' anxiety flags and make a move to bail them out, we're taking consideration both of the puppy and of ourselves. I regularly recollect a maturing puppy named Jack whose people recognized that he generally withdrew from their little child's methodology. They don't thought anything of it, so Jack's rehashed nonaggressive flags that he despised kiddy-style taking care of didn't traverse. b) Name and describe three (3) ways an animal may show you that they are comfortable. Some solace practices show up over a few taxa (e.g. autogrooming), while others may be...
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...Creature Care Animal Clinic Dr. Julia Barr has a veterinary clinic in which she is running six days a week. This is a passion of hers to do what she enjoys doing by taking care of animals. Dr. Barr has hired another doctor to help with her growing business. Dr. Barr and Dr. Yen works throughout the week but alternates shifts on Wednesday’s and Saturday’s because Wednesday’s are their late nights and Saturday’s they stay open half a day. Dr. Barr has hired three nurses, a hiring manager and an office assistant. Dr. Barr business is in disarray due to not forecasting, not organization efficiently, nor managing inventory well. If the structure of the firm is not changed soon in my opinion it will fail very soon. Dr. Barr’s operation management was not researched well at all. 1. Identify the operations management problems that Dr. Barr is having at the clinic. It looks like Dr. Barr has a formal system of inventory management that was working well in the past but it has quickly got out of hand. They are over stocking medications that are expired, overstocking products that they already have in stock and on many occasions ran out of stock of products and had to rush deliver items and in certain cases had to run to the drug store to purchase bandages and probably other items. Dr. Yen and Dr. Barr are still rotating Wednesday’s and Saturday’s but Wednesday evening are very slow were as Friday’s they are so busy that all staff usually has to stay late and Saturdays are busy as...
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...thousands of mistreated animals. Since animals do not have a voice of their own, they cannot defend themselves. Animal cruelty is immorally disturbing which is why these poor, innocent creatures deserve more rights. Providing care and protection should an ethical and moral obligation, because as you should see not enough is being done. Animal cruelty is often broken down into two main categories, either active or passive. Passive cruelty, or acts of omission, is animal neglect. Examples are starvation, parasite infestations, dehydration, allowing a collar to grow into an animal’s skin, inadequate shelter in extreme weather conditions, and failure to seek veterinary care when medical attention is needed. Active cruelty, or acts of commission, implies malicious intent in which a person has deliberately and intentionally caused harm to an animal. This behavior is often associated with sociopathic behavior and tendencies. Another disturbing behavior is a paraphilia called bestiality, also known as zoophilia. In a simple sense, bestiality involves intercourse with an animal and includes oral genital contact of any kind between humans and animals. Shockingly, this act is legal in several states. The common sexually abused animals are: cats, dogs, sheep, cows, hens, rabbits, goats, ducks, horses, bulls, and fish. All these animals are accessible, which is why they are commonly abused. Bestiality is considered abuse because it is forced sex. Some animals are owned for only one...
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...MB601 People Organization and Society Facilitator: Dr. John Cullen Submission Date: 17th January 2014 Word-count: 5400 Student Name & ID: Danni Zeng 13250034 Declaration I declare that this assignment which I submit in partial fulfillment of the assessment requirements on MB601 is my work, attributes relevant quotes and/or ideas to the respective authors/owners of such quotes/ideas, adheres to the Harvard style of referencing, and has not been submitted as an assignment elsewhere. [pic] Table of Contents Introduction - 2 - The initial consideration of what my vocation should be - 2 - An informed exploration of my vocation involves: - 7 - A critical reevaluation of the vocation I have ideated - 11 - A purposeful plan to help me achieve my vocational plan - 14 - References - 17 - Introduction The aim of this project is to envisage and test my vocation plan. In order to achieve that, in this paper, I will first conduct a close analysis of my vocation decision with reference to my personal profile. Afterwards, a relevant research including literature review and interviews of people who undertake similar professions will be carried out to examine if the vocation meets my expectation. Finally, after considering potential impediments and strengths, a strategic and purposeful plan of helping realizing my vocation will be made. It should be noted that finding one’s vocation could be a lifelong process. The vocation decided in this paper is based on...
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...Ethical Treatment of Animals I. Introduction Animals have played an important role in many aspects of this world; some look upon these roles with favoritism, some with disgust. Animals give live birth and are considered different from humans by some people because of their behavior. Some animals are consumed as food by humans and other animals or trapped for their furs. Many times people get animals as pets and neglect them. Some animals are pulled out of their habitat and are used as research yet; some humans think they don't deserve any rights because they are animals. A. Thesis Statement Throughout this paper I will examples of possibilities that can be used to change the life of an animal in the food industry, as a pet and as research, we need to help them have a better life even if we are going to use them as food and pets. II. Body paragraph #1 - Topic Sentence #1 On today's factory farms, animals are crammed by the thousands into filthy, windowless sheds and confined to wire cages, gestation crates, barren dirt lots, and other cruel confinement systems. A. Supporting Evidence PETA made a investigation at Agriprocessors in 2004 revealed almost 300 instances of inhumane slaughter, in which cows' sensitive faces were shocked with electric prods, fully conscious cattle had their tracheas and esophagi ripped from their throats with meat hooks or knives, and they writhed in pools of their own blood, trying desperately to stand up for up to three minutes as...
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...behavior with a student, Lurie loses his job at the university and must move in with his daughter, Lucy, in the country. Throughout the novel we see many references to animals, especially in relation to Lurie. Because he is the narrator of the novel, these animal references lead the reader to believe Lurie is describing himself through these animals. Lurie uses descriptions of animals as a way to describe how he feels about himself. We see Lurie go from a sexually charged predator, to a strange beast who has been hunter, to a dog-man, and then finally to a helpless dog who is ready to be put out of his misery. David Lurie is a predator at the beginning of the novel. He is a man searching for sex, and for the most part he is successful at it. His first sexual interest he introduces us to is Soraya, a prostitute who he has been going to see for a long time. Lurie describes them having sex by comparing them to snakes engaged in intercourse, "lengthy, absorbed, but rather abstract, rather dry, even at its hottest" (Coetzee 5 ). Being the narrator, this shows the reader how David views himself, as well as Soraya, as cold, scary, almost evil, creatures, like snakes. Snakes give off a very negative emotion because they are dangerous animals, and this comparison leads us to believe David too must be a dangerous animal. Soraya eventually tries to cut ties with David, but David being the predator he is cannot let his prey go. He is able to find Soraya’s home phone number and when...
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...Have you ever seen a type of animal or plant and realized that they didn’t belong there? You knew it looked rare and unique, but it didn’t belong in the habitat. What you saw are known as invasive species. An invasive species is a living creature that has negative effects on our economy, environment, or health, but is brought here by human assistance or by self-migration. They can also be called “introduced species, aliens, exotic, nonindigenous, and nonnative” according to Daniel Simberloff (3). As a contrast, he defined a native species along the lines of “a species is native to a region if it evolved there or if it evolved elsewhere, but arrived in the region of its own, usually thousands if not millions of years ago and without human assistance”...
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... While the researcher did not know the procedure that was followed to dehorn these calves, the textual analysis did not show the procedure in a good light. During textual analysis, the researcher examined sources on topics related to cosmetic and convenience surgeries in animals. To find sources, the researcher searched relevant topics in West Virginia University’s library database. Once search results appeared, the researcher examined those sources that appeared to be the most up-to-date and thorough. The researcher also...
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...Unit 9 Final Project HU – 245 - 10 Professor Ronald Wade Erin Broker 8/30/2009 Kaplan University Unit 9 Final Project Introduction Ethics is the area of study that deals with morality and how we make decisions about how we behave as individuals and how our actions reflect our values and conduct towards one another. This class focused on two viewpoints that helped us define morality and how to apply it in new ways of thinking and reasoning when dealing with issues in our lives: consequential reasoning and non-consequential reasoning. Through an evaluation of my collected works, I will attempt to show an improvement in the areas of analytical skill building, knowledge acquisition, and practical application that are the key objectives of this class. The objective of these three skill areas was to help us better understand how to think ethically and to understand why others think the way they do and how to come to a better understanding of a difference of opinions on various subjects. Analytical Skills Analytical skill building helps to improve your critical reading, writing and thinking skills. In unit 2 Case Study B, I evaluated a situation where an employee was upset with his employer’s treatment of its employees. In analyzing the situation, I was able to come to an understanding of how best the company should respect Mr. Lopez’s rights and moral dignity as an employee by using consequential reasoning: A company should take whatever steps necessary to...
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...become relaxed a person would become emotionally and behaviorally disturbed, therefore the bleeding, purifying and other techniques were meant to heal the person. In France after the revolution, Philippe Pinel was a director of the larger Parish Hospital for women. He treated his patients by providing them with assistance to regain their reasoning. His program was very successful. William Tuke opened a similar institution in York at about the same time. His colleagues and he believed that mental illness was just a state of the person’s mind and so it was built to house only 30 people but only a third of that number participated in this program. This time of treatment was called the moral treatment because patients were treated with human care that would help them return to their normal life. In the United States, physicians who were treating the insane were called alienists because it was believed that this disorder was the cause of becoming alienated. By 19th...
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...INTRODUCTION What if killing is legal? Would you remain in your house, or start to hide and run for your very precious life? According to Rawls Principle of Justice, many different kinds of things are said to be just and unjust: not only laws, institutions, and social systems, but also particular actions of many kinds, including decisions, judgments, and imputations. Do you think first before you act? Are you sure that your action does not violate the rights of others? Well, as a person, there are lots of things need to be consider as an unjust action. One example that is said to be unjust in our society is killing. When we say KILLING, it is the act of depriving someone or something's life. When you kill, you’re taking away their rights, not only right to live, but even small things such as right to smile, right to be free and right to love. You are not allowing them to continue their journey and mission as a human. In short you’re ending everything on them. Killing involves decisions and judgments. Judgment if you really going to kill him/her and decisions in deciding how will you kill or what is your way of killing. In every society in our world, it has been set in our minds that killing is prohibited. Once you killed someone or anyone, law will put you to imprisonment for you to pay the sin you've done and the consequences of it. But let me point these things out, even though all of the human race know that killing is forbidden, still there are instances of killing all around...
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...Wellington College, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Religious Studies AS Level Edexcel Unit 2: Investigations Abortion A study guide and anthology Contents Introduction A modern controversy: the case of George Tiller (BBC) p. 3 Definitions and technical language p. 6 Methods used p. 7 Family Planning Association fact sheet p. 8 Religion and the Sanctity of Life The Sanctity of Life p. 12 A critique of the Sanctity of Life: Jonathan Glover p. 14 Christian perspectives: Methodists and Catholics p. 16 ‘Ensoulment’, soul, and the sacredness of life p. 18 Religious views in conflict: liberalism and conservatism p. 19 Philosophical Problems in Abortion An argument against abortion p. 20 Personhood p. 21 A ‘person’ as rational and self-conscious: Peter Singer p. 24 Moral rights: the foetus and the mother p. 26 A woman’s right to an abortion: Judith Jarvis Thomson p. 28 ‘Why abortion is immoral’: Don Marquis p. 29 Anthology of Texts Unit 2 model answers: ethics (Edexcel) ‘Why abortion challenges us all’: Rowan Williams ‘Contraception and abortion within Protestant Christianity’: Gloria Albrecht ‘Virtue theory and abortion’: Rosalind Hursthouse Appendix: sample exam questions and level descriptors Notes Pages A Modern Controversy: the Case of George Tiller Profile: George Tiller (2009) To some anti-abortionists George Tiller, who...
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