FINAL EXAMINATION Park University (Internet) MG 420 Labor Relations Instructor: William R Mueller Multiple Choice (2 points each) 1. In the United States‚ the concept that employees are entitled to a voice in the workplace because it is consistent with the fundamental doctrine of our political system is known as: a. exclusive representative b. Industrial democracy c. Participative management d. Critical industrial relations Ch. 1‚ p. 9 2. Which of the following is not
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1. In owning these different business Toyota pursuing the three kinds of corporate-level strategies discussed in the chapter. What are the strategies? Why is it pursuing each of them? The Kasugai plant is one of three Toyota factories in Japan that make prefabricated houses. Just like Toyota’s cars‚ these come with fancy‚ foreign-sounding names and plenty of options‚ such as solar roof panels and keyless entry. For those with a Corolla-size budget‚ the top-selling‚ 1‚300-sq.-ft. Smart Stage runs
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Operations Management HW#1 Benihana of Tokyo‚ HBS case (available in e-packet) Read‚ analyze‚ and be prepared to discuss the Benihana of Tokyo case. Use the following study questions as an aid in analyzing the case. a. Describe Benihana as an operating system. (Draw a process flow diagram.) List the relevant inputs‚ process‚ and output elements in three columns. b. How does the operating system support the Benihana concept? How this operating system impact Benihana’s “revenue per available
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related example has to do with a request from a customer asking that chemical handling costs that our company was currently providing be reduced. A team was assembled and scheduled to meet at the work location for five days and use a tool called Kaizen Manufacturing. This tool is applied in a shop or manufacturing environment that uses a small cross-functional team of people assembled for short period to address a specific problem. They apply simple tools to chart distance‚ movement of people
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before you move on to the interviews. So the employee is well vetted as a “good fit” prior to ever being employed at this company. In Unit 4‚ I discussed Training and Development of the Toyota employee. They are indoctrinated into the mindset of “kaizen”‚ which means continual improvement as well as set up with an individual employee plan which incorporates personality and skill sets which will evolve over the working lifetime of the employee. One point is that when Toyota hires someone‚ they intend
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Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Production System The use of the term "Lean"‚ in a business or manufacturing environment‚ describes a philosophy that incorporates a collection of tools and techniques into the business processes to optimize time‚ human resources‚ assets‚ and productivity‚ while improving the quality level of products and services to their customers. Becoming "Lean" is a commitment to a process and a tremendous learning experience should you attempt to implement Lean principles and
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Over the course of history there have been multiple approaches to management. More than a century ago a classification of management called "bureaucratic organizations" was conceived by Max Weber (1864–1920)‚ a German theorist. He introduced most of the concepts on bureaucratic organizations (Daft‚ R. 0041. Management‚ 11th ed.‚ Cengage Learning‚ p.43). In the period leading up to the development of this approach to management‚ it was common for most businesses in Europe to be family owned and
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THE ‘LEARNING BUREAUCRACY’: NEW UNITED MOTOR MANUFACTURING‚ INC. By Paul S. Adler Downloaded from http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~padler/ THE ‘LEARNING BUREAUCRACY’: NEW UNITED MOTOR MANUFACTURING‚ INC. by Paul S. Adler School of Business Administration University of Southern California Los Angeles 90089-1421 Tel: (213) 740-0748 DRAFT 3.1 April 1992 Forthcoming in Barry M. Staw and Larry L. Cummings (eds.) Research in Organizational Behavior‚ Greenwich‚ CT: JAI Press. Acknowledgements:
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best applicable to a firm in Kuwait? Please explain: Answer: Lean management is an operation system that maximizes the value added each of the company activities by removing waste and delays‚ there are 3 elements: 1 kaizen which is the term to process improvement. The key to kaizen understands that access capacity or inventory hides underlying problems with the processes that produce a service or product. Lean system provides the mechanism for management to reveal the problems by systematically
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