Operational Effectiveness and Efficiency via Lean Thinking Robert Moyler California Miramar University December 18, 2013 Abstract The purpose of this study is to explore the lean thinking system across operational processes of organizations. This paper hopes to examine lean thinking methods and some alternative approaches to discovering the most effective process and best practices for efficiency across multiple layers of any organization as it transforms raw materials into a finished product
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three-year, three-phase project that culminated in a valid and reliable instrument that was copyrighted in 1979. Educators in 23 states have used the Organizational Health Instrument as a diagnostic tool for improving leadership and organizational effectiveness. The Organizational Health Instruments (OHI) consists of 80 item statements, eight for each of the ten dimensions. All members of a work unit respond to these questions. (To provide confidentiality of responses, data are collected in a group setting
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EFFICIENCY & EFFECTIVENESS I am trying to figure out how I missed this very important point in my business life. What is the difference between efficiency and effectiveness? I am thinking that maybe I didn’t miss it but perhaps it’s buried somewhere in the back of my brain. However, the required reading in Section 1.3 brought it back to the forefront in my mind, and made the distinguishing features of the two terms very clear, or did they? With efficiency being defined loosely as “doing
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Organizational effectiveness is a tool manager’s use to measure how effective they; and their organizations are at achieving outcomes and creating value. Organizational effectiveness can be very difficult to measure in an organization. Why? The answer is because organizations can be diverse and very large. Also one organization can have multiple goals and perform many activities at the same time. Managers must decide which indicators they want to measure in order to determine the effectiveness of their
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CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIORS, EFFICIENCY, AND CUSTOMER SERVICE PERCEPTIONS IN TAIWANESE BANKS HsiuJu Rebecca Yen Department of Business Administration College of Management Yuan Ze University 135 Far East Rd. Chung Li, Taiwan Email: hjyen@saturn.yzu.edu.tw & Brian P. Niehoff Department of Management 101 Calvin Hall Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506 Phone: (785) 532-4359 FAX: (785) 532-7024 e-mail: niehoff@ksu.edu Running Head: OCB and Effectiveness MIDWEST ACADEMY
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CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIORS, EFFICIENCY, AND CUSTOMER SERVICE PERCEPTIONS IN TAIWANESE BANKS ABSTRACT Organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) describe actions in which employees are willing to go above and beyond their prescribed role requirements. Prior theory suggests and some research supports the belief that these behaviors are correlated with indicators of organizational effectiveness. Studies have yet to explore whether relationships between OCB and organizational effectiveness are generalizable
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time you put into them are your inputs. Efficiency is a measure of how well you do those things. If you are able to get more outputs from the same inputs, you are said to have increased efficiency. Effectiveness is a measure of doing the “right things.” Highly effective individuals and companies act in ways that move their highest priorities forward on a regular basis. * Productivity = Output / Input * Efficiency = Doing things right * Effectiveness = Doing the right things In order to
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member ratings of effectiveness are positively related to the boundedness and stability of the team and information processing and negatively related to information acquisition. Manager ratings of effectiveness are positively related to boundedness and stability, information processing and information storage and retrieval. Team member ratings of efficiency are positively related to information processing and negatively related to information acquisition. Manager ratings of efficiency are positively related
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Camelot College Programme : CMI Management and Leadership Unit Title : An introduction to managerial styles Unit Number : 4001 Unit Level : Level 5 Module Tutor : GOWHER MALIK Learner’s name and statement of authenticity: Learner’s Name: TALHA AZAM Learner’s ID: Date handed-in: I certify that the work submitted for this assignment is my own. Where the work of others has been used to support my work then credit has
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Efficiency and Effectiveness of Waqf Institutions in Malaysia: Toward Financial Sustainability Maliah Sulaiman Email: maliah@iium.edu.my Department of Accounting, Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences International Islamic University Malaysia Jalan Gombak, 53100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Muntaka Alhaji Zakari* Email: alhajizak@gmail.com Department of Accounting, Kulliyyah of Economics
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