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Chapter Eight Homework Assignment

Chapter Eight Homework Assignment

Q Hello Everyone: Please answer the following questions in at least two complete sentences. 1.-10. Go to page 262 in the textbook. Answer the ten Check Your Progress Questions. 11. Look at Figure 8-3 on page 255. It takes 185 seconds to make a Big Mac. What would you do differently to make a Big Mac faster so you can improve your efficiency? 12. Look at Table 8-3 on page 255. What three things can airlines do to give better customer service? 13. If you were the President of Nassau Community College, what three things would you do differently to improve the quality of the college? 14. How can Subway use technology to make a sandwich faster?

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1. When there is every activity formulated for ensuring resources of the organization to be transformed completely into the organization’s products as well as the organization’s services, it is known as operations management. The administration of every such activity is also involved in the process of transformation and is an integral component of operations management. 2. In case of operations, there is a specific process for the production and creation of every intangible product of the organization. In case of operations, there is also a specific process for the production and creation of every tangible product of the organization. In case of production, there is representation of every activity as well as every process for the production and creation of every tangible product of the organization. In case of manufacturing also, there is representation of every activity as well as every process for the production and creation of every tangible product of the organization. 3. Every required resource has to be allocated by every service provider. Every required resource has to be allocated by every manufacturer. Operations has to be controlled as well as scheduled by every service provider. The same things have to be done by every manufacturer as well. When productivity is measured, a service provider and a manufacturer will measure it differently. The need for labor is also different for both. The uniformity of outputs is also different for both. The uniformity of inputs is also different for both. Every output for every service provider is consumed differently in comparison with every output for every manufacturer consumed differently. The nature of every output for both is also different. 4. There can be a single individual involved in the process of planning products in small business enterprises/organizations. There can also be just another individual added to assist this single individual in such organizations. However, there can be different departments of planning products in big business enterprises. This is because there can be specialization of different functions of planning by such enterprises. Planning products must be done by making every member of the organization engaged so that there can be knowledge gained about ways to make customers satiated. Moreover, there can be knowledge gained by every organizational member to learn to reach and accomplish organizational targets.