Management Ch 15 T/F
Employee reward system is important
T
work in progress inventories are made up of partially created products
T
Automation is type of operation technology that is used only in operational management
F
Current thinking about the relationship with productivity and quality is that there is an indirect relationship between the two factors
F
Firms with JIT inventory would be wise to have one essential supplier
F
Operations management is a function exclusive to the manufacturing sector of the society
F
Procurement can be defined as managing operations design and control, as to improve efficiency and effectiveness
F
Sue just received an assignment to use robots to move work in progress from one workstation to the other. In other words, Sue is developing a computer aided design
F
quality is relevant for services but not for products
F
Habitat for humanity builds single family homes, it uses a cellular layout
F, that's fixed
Acceptance sampling cannot be handled by statistical example
T
Applebee's- ...is part of work in progress inventory
T
During the decline of the manufacturing sector, tremendous growth in the service sector kept the US economy from declining at the same rate
T
More jobs have been created due to increased automation than have been lost
T
Quality is both a relative and absolute concept
T
Teresa is computing total productivity, she needs to quantify style, it is difficult to express all the quantities in common terms
T
The American society for quality control defines quality as totality of features to satisfy needs
T
The cellular layout is a relatively new approach to facility design
T
Waiters at the Benet record orders on their cell phone, this is an increasing example of technology in the service sector
T
When operations management is coordinated with other management, a type of control activity can be created
T
When you finish visiting a financial planner you provide her with ... then she turns it into a plan. She is practicing operational management
T
quality and productivity are central issues in managing organizations
T
