Operations Management Course contact information • Instructor Dr. Chetan Soman Office & Phone: 4-J, 4839 e-mail: chetan@iimahd.ernet.in Objective of course: To gain an appreciation of the strategic importance of operations and how operations relate to other business functions To develop a working knowledge of the concepts and methods related to designing and managing operations Organizational Functions Finance Secures financial resources at favorable prices and provides
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studies and theories in the field of organizational behavior have given new insights into the behavior of people at work. The most important studies are the Hawthorne studies, Theory X and Theory Y, and Theory Z. The Hawthorne Studies, conducted by Elton Mayo at the Western Electric Company, was the first systematic study that recognized the significance of informal groups in the workplace and its impact on productivity. The conclusion drawn from these studies was that it was security and recognition
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ORGANISATIONAL CULTURE, This can be defined as the behaviour of humans in a particular organisation or locality and the meaning they attach to such varied behaviours. According to Ravesi and Schultz (2006) he defines culture as “a mental assumption that guides the actions of individuals and the organisation as a whole and therefore define appropriate behaviours for their actions”. There are basically four types of organisational cultures; Power culture, this is a type of culture whereby power
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1.Scientific Management Theory: Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915), the Father of Scientific Management, assumed that labor is not the cause of most problems in business and it is only the management which can provide solutions to the problems of the business. His principles were: 1. Develop a science for each element of an individual’s work to replace the old rule-of-thumb method. 2. Scientifically select and then,teach and develop the worker. 3. Heartily co-operate with the workers so as
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Introduction to Operations Management McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. What is operations? The part of a business organization that is responsible for producing goods or services How can we define operations management? The management of systems or processes that create goods and/or provide services Instructor Slides 1-2 Goods are physical items that include raw materials, parts, subassemblies, and final
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LEADERSHIP, MOTIVATION AND ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICT MOST PRESSING TOPICS IN ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR Organization behavior is the study of behaviors and attitudes of people in an organization. After all human behaviors and attitudes determine effectiveness of any organization. The approach used in studying OB is the system approach. In other words, this approach interprets people-organization relationships in terms of the whole person, whole group, whole organization, and whole social system. Its
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1751-1348.htm JMH 12,3 Management history: an umbrella model 278 Robert Morris University, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA Nell Tabor Hartley Abstract Purpose – To assist colleagues in tying current ideas to previously established practices. To generate discussion of the current relevance of students’ understanding management history. Design/methodology/approach – A review of representative
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Organizational Behaviour Introduction: However, there are some critiques of the human relations Manager plays an important role in the business management such as controlling, leading, organizing and planning. (Mullins, 2007) Planning is a process that includes defining goals, establishing strategy, and developing plans to coordinate activities. Organizing is to determining what tasks are to be done, who is to do them, how the tasks are to be grouped, who reports to whom, and where decisions
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. Introduction It is fortunately for this generation manager because they have more than century's management theory and thought to retrospect. Although modern management theory dates primarily from the early twentieth century, there was serious thinking and theorizing about managing many years before. Throughout many different contributions of writers and practitioners have resulted different approaches to management, resulting in a kind of management theory jungle and help them to face the challenge
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organizational practices in our society. It is a story about work life and the effects of bad management on the morale of the workers. It is set in a high-tech company and the central character is a technical professional in the organization who has no motivation or passion for his job. Pete works at Initech, a software company. His job consists of sitting in a cubicle crunching numbers all day long, which is enough to make anyone go crazy. Office Space depicts an oppressing, unsatisfactory view of the working
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