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MCQ of Operations ManagementQuestion 1 :Operations Management is a _____b)_____ process.a)translation;b)transformation;c)transaction;d)transition

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Question 3 :There are 5 basic organizational forms, simple,functional, divisional, conglomerate and _____a)_____?a)hybrid;b)complex;c)corporate;d)hierarchicalQuestion 4 :Organizing budget hotels within a chain bygeographical location is an example of which type of organizationalform?d)|Production Man

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Question 5 :Which of these would an operations managernotresponsible for?b)bec)|Conglomerate|H

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Question 6 :Operations can be diagnosed by volume, variety,variation and _________b)_______?a)validity;b)variability;c)value;d)varianceQuestion 7 :The size of the product range or number of servicesoffered is called _______c)______?a)variability;b)validity;variety;d)variationc)|Safety and main|validity|variabili

Question 8 :The extent to which a product or service may becustomized is called _____a)________?c)|variability|validi

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Question 9 :Services differ from manufactured products in fourways. Intangibility, Inseparability, Perishability and ______b)_________?d)|variability|validi

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Operations Management is a ___________________ process.a)translationb)transformationc)transactiond)transition

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Question 4Organizing budget hotels within a chain by geographical location isan example of which type of organizational form?Question 5

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Which of these would an operations managernotbe responsiblefor?

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Operations Management is a ___________________ process.
a. translation
b transformation
c transaction
d transition

b transformation

Operations Management is a transformation process as it changes inputs into outputs. Page reference: 21

Which of these Managers would be least likely to be considered in an operations management role within an organization?

a Production Manager
b Supply Chain Manager
c Financial Risk Manager
d Quality Manager

c Financial Risk Manager

A Financial Risk Manager would be considered least likely to be in an operations management role because all of the others have a clearly defined role where they manage facilities, information and materials. Whilst a Financial Risk Manager may manage other staff and to some extent manage customers their major role is managing information but they are not considered to be operations managers. Page reference: 12-13

There are 6 basic organizational forms, simple, functional, divisional, conglomerate, hybrid and _______________?
A complex
B virtual
C corporate
D hierarchical

B virtual

A virtual form is the missing one from the list. Complex, corporate or hierarchical are not organizational forms but are descriptions of the organisations themselves. Page reference: 07

Organizing budget hotels within a chain by geographical location is an example of which type of organizational form?

A Conglomerate
B Hybrid
C Simple
D Divisional

D Divisional

This is an example of a divisional form because the management of the operation is divided up by geographical location. Other examples of this type of organizational form are pubs and fast food chains.Page reference: 10; see Figure 1.2

Which of these would an operations manager not be responsible for?

A Safety and maintenance
B Sales and marketing
C Selecting suppliers
D Recruiting employees

C Selecting suppliers

An operations manager would not be responsible for sales and marketing, since this is usually a separate division within an organisation. Operations managers are purely responsible for planning, organising and controlling the movement of materials, customers and information within the business.Page reference: 12; see Figure 1.2

Operations can be characterised by volume, variety, variation and ________________?
A Validity
B Variability
C Value
D Variance

B Variability

The missing characteristic is variability. An example of this is the amount of customization which is available in a product or service. An example is in food service. A fast food restaurant has very limited variability whereas a fine dining restaurant will be able to offer customers food cooked to their liking and have more choice of ingredients.Page reference: 15; see Figure 1.3

The size of the product range or number of services offered is called _____________?
A Variability
B Validity
C Variety
D Variation

C Variety

The size of the product range or number of services offered is called the variety. Operations which have many different types of products or services are considered to have high variety whereas car companies, for example, may have many different models or added extras but essentially they are just one product.Page reference: 15; see Figure 1.3

The extent to which a product or service may be customized is called _____________?
A Variability
B Validity
C Variety
D Variation

A Variability

The extent to which a product or service may be customized is called the variability. Operations with high variability would include car companies who offer many different combinations of components and added extras within any given model.Page reference: 15; see Figure 1.3

According to Sasser et al. (1978), services differ from manufactured products in four ways. Intangibility, inseparability, perishability and _______________?
A Homogeneity
B Heterogeneity
C Intractability
D invisibility

B Heterogeneity

According to Sasser et al. (1978) services differ due to heterogeneity in addition to intangibility, inseparability and perishability. Heterogeneity means that the service may vary from one occasion to the next and will depend on many factors such as the location, the time taken and the perceived quality or value of the service experience. Page reference: 16-17

The Servuction model recognizes that operations can process customers through their infrastructure or through their ___________?
A performance
B procedures
C staff
D systems

C staff

The Servuction model recognizes that operations can process customers through their infrastructure (buildings, facilities or equipment) or through their staff. Often they do both. In many modern service operations the customer has increasingly taken responsibility for their own service and in effect become a co-worker though using self-service technologies. Page reference: 21-22; see Figure 1.5

Define what is meant by operations mangement

Om can be defined as the management of processes that convert inputs ( labour and energy) into outputs( goods and services

what is the nature of operations within an organization

Operations management is one of the core functions within an organization others typically being
- marketing
- human recources
- finance
- accounting

Identify six different forms of organization

there are five basic forms
- simple
- functional
- divisional/product
- conglomerate
- hybrid
Now a sixt has been added
- Virtual organization

What does an operation manager do the remaining ones?

- controlling material inputs within the system
- assuring the quality of system outputs
- desinging and developing human work systems

What does an operation manager do in terms of developing?

- developing and maintaining the systems infrastructure
- developing an denhancing the systems processes
- developing new ouputs

What does an operation manager do in terms of managing

- managing team system inputs
- managing customer inputs within the system
- managing the rate of flow through the system

What is volume?

Relates to size or scale of the output
- exp how many items are manufactured or customers served in a specifed time period

What is variety

relates to the size of product range or number of services offerd.

What is variation?

describes how the leve of demand changes over time and there by affects the volume of outputs
- this may be short term ( hourly or daily), as well as seasonal

What is variability?

the extent to which each product or service may be customized or not.

What are the similarities and diffrences between the manufacturing and service sectors of the economy

Services have four features that are supposed to dilfferentiate them from manufacturing.
- intagibility
- heterogeneity
- perishability
- simultaneteity/inseparability

What is intangibility?

This proposes that services do not physically excist but are directly experienced by the customer.

What is heterogeneity?

refers to the idea that consumers have unique experiences of services that are not shared with, or are the same as other consumers.

What is perishability?

this argues that sevices cannot be inventoried or put into stock

what is simultaneteity/inseparability

identify that services are produced at the same time, and the same space, as they are consumed.

What is the main argument that defferentiate services form manufacturing.

simultaneteity/inseparability

Customer processing operations

customers are people and asd such are able to transport themselves from one place to another and to interact eith their environment

Material Processing operations

materials are inert until they are handeld, where upon they behave in specific ways derived form their physical and chemical structure

Information Processing operations

informationis the communication of facts ir date, iften in very large quantities and in ways not visible to the human eye

what are the basic issues in relation to organizational design

- the nature of the hierarachy
- the degree of centralization
- the extent of formalization
- the level of complexity

what is hierarachy

the hierarachy determines the basic shape of an organization

what is centralization

the degree of centralization in an organization is all about how the power is distrubuted within the organization

what is formalization

this refers to how work is organized and how explicit and rigid this is
- The more formal an organizationis the more policies, procedures and ruls are written down
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what is complexity

this refers to the number of sum units within the organization and the degree if difference between them

what are the operation's four V's?

Volume
Variety
Variation
Variability

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