Operations Management: Productivity

Operations management _________________.

• involve in obtain funds and tracks the finance performing

• is the set of activities that transforming inputs into outputs

• creates demand and get customers

• involve the management of employee from recruitment to retirement

Below are the roles of operations manager EXCEPT _________.

• planning on capacity, locations, products & services,make or buy, layout and do projects scheduling

• develop an incentive plan, issuance of work orders & job assignment.

• manage the inventory, control the quality, costs and productivity

• produce financial reports and develop direct investment activities

People´s need or wish to buy particular goods

• demand

• update

• range

• stock

A supply of items that a company keeps to use when it needs them.

• stock

• update

• range

• delay

Which of the following is NOT true with production process

• firms adding value to a product

• transforming raw materials into finished goods

• provision of a product or service

• providing only a product, not service

Which of these is a service?

• jogging shoes

• plumbing

• readymade dress

• birthday cake

What does productivity mean?

• productivity is how products are made

• productivity is a measure of how many workers a business has

• productivity measures efficiency

• productivity measures effectiveness

One of the benefits of increasing productivity is:

• more workers will be employed

• total production will increase with the same number of workers

• average costs will stay the same

• fewer raw materials will be needed to produce the same level of output

Labour productivity could be increased by all of the following except:

• using more technologically advanced machines

• increasing the amount of automation

• improved training of workers

• employing more workers to produce the same level of output

Which of the following is the best definition of 'an increase in efficiency'?

• higher output levels than last year

• lower total costs of production

• fewer workers employed but output level remains the same

• 10% more workers employed and output also rises by 10%