JOURNAL 3
Each week, you will work on one aspect that will help you prepare for the course and reflect. Consider this journal as study notes. This journal will provide an opportunity to capture new ideas from knowledge gained and record your thoughts throughout the course. This will also give you an opportunity to record questions you may wish to research further in preparation for other assigned work. Please remember that copying and pasting your own notes without revising is a form of self-plagiarism.
Begin your post with the label: Unit 3: Product Design and Service Design
Research the following topics related to product design and service design:
- Benchmarking
- Reverse engineering
- Specification
- Queue
- Goods
In a Word document, compose three paragraphs describing the topics: one paragraph per selected topic, based on your simulation activities, course material, and additional research you conduct online. Then, submit to the appropriate Journal Dropbox.
DB4
Facility Design
Operations managers must be concerned with more than final outcomes (the final product or service delivered). They must be involved in determining the processes used to develop and create the final product and how they can be created or manufactured within the current capacities of the organization.
Successful organizations appear complex because they are made up of a multitude of different departments with each having a specific responsibility in the creation and delivery of the final product or service.
For this Discussion, you will need to conduct research on capacity and facilities before you can prepare a complete response to the questions asked. Start this research by reviewing the Web Field Trip resources below.
Web Field Trip
The below relate to your Discussion topic for this week. Please spend some time reviewing these websites, and the document linked below before you compose your response.
Store design & construction. (2016). http://supermarketnews.com/news/store-design-construction
Phillips, T. (2016). Phillips enterprises, Inc. Food market designs. http://www.foodmarketdesigns.com/
How to Layout Your Supermarket
Discussion
Be sure each of the questions below are addressed individually, and be careful not to combine your questions and answers:
- Identify a supermarket/grocery market to discuss for this Discussion topic.
- What departments within the market tend to be co-located (adjacent to one another)? Do you believe the co-location is planned? If so, why?
- What departments within the market tend to be distant from one another? What purpose is accomplished by separating these departments so far apart from each other?
- Why is the layout of the supermarket so important to the overall delivery of the products and services provided?
- What recommendations would you make to the layout of the supermarket to make the layout more effective or efficient?
JOURNAL 4
Each week, you will work on one aspect that will help you prepare for the course and reflect. Consider this journal as study notes. This journal will provide an opportunity to capture new ideas from knowledge gained and record your thoughts throughout the course. This will also give you an opportunity to record questions you may wish to research further in preparation for other assigned work. Please remember that copying and pasting your own notes without revising is a form of self-plagiarism.
Begin your post with the label: Unit 4: Facility Design
Research the following topics related to facility design:
- Capacity
- Economy of scale
- Layout
- Cycle time
- FMS
In a Word document, compose three paragraphs describing the topics: one paragraph per selected topic, based on your simulation activities, course material, and additional research you conduct online. Then, submit to the appropriate Journal Dropbox.
DB5
Human Resource Management – Leadership Activity and Self-Assessment
An operations manager manages processes and procedures.
An operations manager must also be a strong and confident leader. In this Discussion, consider what the leader side of the operations manager looks like and consider what leadership attributes the operations manager must have to be effective. Also, assess your current leadership skills on the same criteria.
To find this out, view the videos listed for this activity and/or conduct research in the Library on this topic. Review and synthesize the information provided with the information that you find on this topic. Your answers must demonstrate your understanding of the concepts and principles identified within the textbook, course information, and activities, but also from independent academic quality research to solve these challenges. Remember to cite each source that you use!
- RapportLeadership. (2008, June 27). Leadership and rapport building [Video]. YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGKkeXf5y8E&feature=related
- UCLA. (2008, September 26). Jack Welch on leadership and the state of corporate America, UCLA [Video]. YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1D8vDpPbG0
As a professional, you should have the ability to discern if information/knowledge is authentic and credible. You should be able to decide if information/knowledge has relevance or has resonance. Discuss what attributes/qualities/skills an operations manager has to have in this role (operations manager) to be effective and successful in the organization.
JOURNAL 5
Each week, you will work on one aspect that will help you prepare for the course and reflect. Consider this journal as study notes. This journal will provide an opportunity to capture new ideas from knowledge gained and record your thoughts throughout the course. This will also give you an opportunity to record questions you may wish to research further in preparation for other assigned work. Please remember that copying and pasting your own notes without revising is a form of self-plagiarism.
Begin your post with the label: Unit 5: Human Resource Management
Research the following topics related to human resource management:
- Contemporary trends in human resources
- Empowerment
- Compensation
- Diversity
- Job design
In a Word document, compose three paragraphs describing the topics: one paragraph per selected topic, based on your simulation activities, course material, and additional research you conduct online. Then, submit to the appropriate Journal Dropbox.
