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Unit 7_ Operations Management
Unit 7_ Operations Management
Management
Learning Objectives
Understand the history of operations management
Define Operations management
Discuss the importance of operations management
Understand the duties and functions of operations managers
Understand the relationship between operations and productivity
Identify new trends and topical issues around
Operations Management as an evolving management field.
Identify the different challenges that an operations manager
encounters with the ever evolving field of Operations
Management
Discuss operations in the service sector
Distinguish between goods and services
Understand the difference between productivity and production
Discuss the factors affecting productivity
Explain how productivity may be improved
What is operations management