Who is primarily responsible for productivity in an organization? List some factors that can affect productivity and some ways that productivity can be improved. Productivity is described as a measure of the effective use of resources, usually expressed as the ratio of output to input. This ratio can be computed for a single operation, a department, an organization, or even an entire country. In an organization, the operations manager is the one primary responsible to achieve productive use
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management: A work study technique to design & organization of work inorder to get maximum output which increases productivity. There are six best ways designed to increase productivity, 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. job design and practice. Repetitive work cycles. Detailed . Prescribed task sequences. Separation of task conception from execution. Motivation based on economic rewards. Productivity : it is a measure of efficiency which summarizes value of output relative to input. The main principles of scientific
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gaining and improving decision making of organization or management processes of production. There are three applications of information and analysis, which consists of tracking behavior, enhanced situational awareness, and sensor-driven decision analytics. Tracking behavior, it is using tracking product to identify details, status, and movement among products, customers, and locations. As a consequence, companies can take advantages from this application for enhancing and develop the quality of production
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Group Assignment Topic: Productivity in Service Sector BRAC University BRAC Business School Spring 2016 Course: Production Operations Management (MSC301) Section: 001 Instructor: Md. Tamzidul Islam Assistant Professor, BRAC Business School Group Members Name ID Tasnia Jebin 12204103 Navid Anjum Khan 13104192 Rifat Shahrukh 13104047 Mohammad Muqtadir Ullah 13104061 Sadia Kamal 12204102 Atik Ilman Hossain 13104205 Date: April 4th, 2016 Question:
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What is Strategy? – Michael E. Porter I. Operational effectiveness is not strategy So in the quest to beat competition managers focus on improving quality, speed and productivity all related to operational effectiveness. But in this way, they move further away from viable competitive positions which can only be achieved by an appropriate strategy. Positioning which was once the way to go about beating competition is now rejected, since its too static. Rivals can easily copy the market position
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own quality management system. In the early 80’s, business organizations had already began to build their quality management system based upon the principles of Total Quality Management. A less known but very successful quality management system, Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) operating system is one of the successfully evolved systems. This system was developed and is practiced by United Technologies Corporation (UTC) until today. ACE primary uses the principles of productivity improvement
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Chapter 1 Operations and Productivity 1. What is operations management? a. Production is the creation of goods and services. b. Operations Management (OM): Activities that relate to the creation of goods and services through the transformation of inputs to outputs. (For both tangible and intangible activities in an organization) 2. Organizing to Produce Goods and Services c. All organizations must perform three functions: i. Marketing: generates the demand,
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FACULTY OF BUSINESS, ECONOMICS AND LAW GROUP COURSEWORK COVERSHEET Coursework Details | Module Name and Code | International Hospitality Operation Management(MAN 3092) | Coursework Title | Group Assignment | Deadline | 19/1/2015 | Word Count | | Student Details | Student URNs (7 digit number on Uni card) | 623076062043706213281 | Student Names | Phuoc Gia Khanh NguyenYiyin GanYu Oi Chi | Programme(s) | | Student DeclarationTo be agreed by Students | Please refer to the University
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OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT NAME: VIVEK SRIVASTAV SEMESTER: 2ND QuesNo.1) People’s productivity key to Indian manufacturing competitiveness: Boston Consulting Group. Namrata Singh, TNN/Mar14, 2013, 9.34 PM 1st Mumbai: People productivity is the key to Indian manufacturing competitiveness says a report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In most global people productivity surveys, not only does people productivity of Indian manufacturing sector lags developed nations such as US and Japan but
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Development 2.1 It helps to increase productivity of the employees 2.2 It helps in increasing the job knowledge and skills of employees at each level 2.3 It helps in inculcating the sense of team work, team spirit, and inter-team collaborations. 2.4 It leads to improved profitability and more positive attitudes towards profit orientation. 2.5 It helps in increasing job satisfaction. 2.6 It helps to greater productivity and quality. 2.7 It helps in improving the morale of the work force 2.8 Lead
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