OPERATION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT All organizations have operations.” A manufacturing company may conduct operations in a foundry, mill, or factory. Our interest is in the management of operations, or operations management (OM), including the usual management cycle of planning, implementing, and monitoring/controlling. The driving force for OM must be an overriding goal of continually improving service to customers, where customer means the next process as well as the final, external user. § Since there is …showed first 75 words of 2298 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2298 total…number of task included in a person’s job, for example, cooking, serving, and scraping plates; it offers horizontal variety. Existence of job standards offers a guide path for avoiding problems, thereby offering more freedom for the associate to work on process improvements, which translate into still better job standards. Customers, Internal and External An obstacle in the way of learning more skills is the job classification systems, or work rules. Operations and Operating Environments