Setting the broad direction / long-range goals of an organization
What is strategic planning?
100
A production process where a minimum of materials inventory is kept on site, and materials are delivered as close to the time of production as possible.
What is just in time inventory?
100
A barrier to working internationally related to difference in language, customs, social values and religion.
What is sociocultural differences?
100
Maximizing the effectiveness of the workforce, getting the most out of each dollar spent on an organizations human capital.
What is human resource management?
100
Good Luck!
What is you got this!
200
Can I accomplish this task? If I do, what is my reward? Is the reward worth it?
What are the questions people ask before committing effort to a task according to Expectancy theory?
200
A decision made by operations managers that determines were a facility should be located and what criteria the location is based on.
What is location strategy?
200
This is the main focus of Operations Management in the service sector.
What is designing, executing and monitoring services delivered to customers.
200
This is the process of determining what a job is (that is, what tasks it involves and what is required to perform those tasks)
What is job analysis?
200
Good Luck!
What is you got this!
300
Effort, education, skills, personality, seniority
What are inputs of the equity theory
300
A decision made by operations managers that determines what equipment, technology, and processes are needed in order to produce a good or service.
What is process and capacity design?
300
A culture that derives meaning primarily through the spoken and written word.
What is low context culture?
300
The law that provides the broadest protection from discrimination by employers (i.e., protects the widest range of people)
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
300
When a country imports more goods and services than it exports.
What is a trade deficit?
400
Determining organizational vision and goals and creating action plans for reaching those goals.
What is the planning function of management?
400
An area of operations management which works with external partners to procure raw materials in order to produce a product, and deliver the product to the market.
What is supply chain management?
400
The degree of equality/inequality amongst people in the country's society, and the degree to which inequality is accepted/expected
What is power distance?
400
The process of determining the right person with the right skills, etc. for the job.
What is initial selection?
400
Managing the day to day processes - training, motivating and evaluating employees.
What is first line management.
500
Manage interruptions well, do many things at once, people dictate schedules, time is viewed as fluid.
What are characteristics of people from polychromic cultures?
500
This is what operations management functions convert resources into.
What are goods and services? (What are products?)
500
Importing, exporting, outsourcing, locating branches/offices/plants in other countries, etc.
What are ways to do business internationally?
500
KSAO's
What is knowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics
500
Conceptual skills
What is the most important skills for top managers?