In: Operations Management
1. An organization can use a tool that allows members of workgroups and teams to share information, improve communication and assist with efficiency and performance. These tools that have become even more popular with the current pandemic are known as:
a. collaboration software b.clearinghouse c.work centers d.telecommuting e. media correspondence
2- Two managers given the same information about a problem may see the solution differently because of their expertise and experience with the situation. This is an example of?
a. selective perception b.verbal intonation c. interdependence d. intuition e. noise
3- Any time a customer completes a satisfaction survey about their shopping experience, they receive a "$10 off your next purchase" coupon. This represents:
a. a standard decision. b. cognitive dissonance. c. a nonprogrammed decision. d. experience. e. a decision rule.
4- You are the manager at a large manufacturing plant. Last year you authorized the expenditure of $500,000 for what you thought was a promising new project for the company. So far, the results have been disappointing. The employees running the project say that with an additional $300,000 they may be able to turn things around. Without your approval of extra funding, there is little hope. Although persistence may seem irrational from the organization’s point of view, you make the decision to authorize the additional spending because you do not want to admit error and expose your mistakes to the board of directors. No one wants to appear incompetent. This is a clear example of ______________
a.miscommunication b. escalation of commitment c. information overload d.misperception e.crisis communication
1. An organization can use a tool that allows members of workgroups and teams to share information improve communication and assist with efficiency and performance. These tools that have become even more popular with the current pandemic are known as:
a. collaboration software b.clearinghouse c.work centers d.telecommuting e. media correspondence
Ans: To saying about the above we need to know the current corona virus pandemic it’s expected to fundamentally change the way of many organizations operate for the foreseeable future. As per the govt.and the business in the world tell those with symptoms to self quarantine and everyone else to maintain social distancing, remote work is our new reality. So the question is the Manager, Leaders and the workers ho to do their shifts? The scale and the scope of what a company seeing with the quantity of employee and asking them to work from home very quickly is unprecedented. So organizations are not ready for this and they need to set up for this.
Company need to requisite technology or access the applications, Copany need to identify these persons those have laptop and make sure they have all the apps so that they can do the work from the home very easily. Direct managers have to very quickly ensure and monitoring that every employee has full access, So no one feels left behind.
A. collaboration software: Collaboration software or groupware means its a software designed to help people working on a common talks to attain their target or to attain their goals. Collaboration software is a board concept that overlaps considerably computer supported co-operative work,whic are conceived as any form of human organization that emerges any time that collaboration takes place. its divided into 3 categories :-
1. Communications 2. Conferencing 3. Co-coordinating.
B.clearinghouse : We need to focus on six activities 1. Determining focus areas 2. Defining promising practice 3.collecting practices 4. Establishing a expert review process for accepting practices 5. Disseminating the practices 6. Evaluating the activity.
Its purpose is to reduce the risk of a member firm failing to honor its settlement obligations. A Clearing house is a financial institution formed to facilitate the exchange of payments, Securities or derivatives transactions.
C.work centers: Work centre is a section of the production facility where all the associated process all the tasks.
D.Telecommuting : Its a work arrangement in which employees do not need to travel to any place for work,he she shall done the task just communicate with the concern peoples.
E.media correspondence : It’s a form of a communication in business its mostly exchanged through physical letters or telegraphs. Now a day’s its expanded by the digital media like emails, text messages, documents exchange through social media and digitally processed agreements.
2- Two managers given the same information about a problem may see the solution differently because of their expertise and experience with the situation. This is an example of?
Ans: Problem solving skill is a essential job skill for a manager or any position in every organizations
There are four stages 1. Define the Problem 2. Brainstorm alternatives 3. Choose the best strategy 4. Implement your solution.
As Albert Einstein says “You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.
Improving your problem solving skills will give you distinct edge both in a management job and in other positions within your company.
If the managers are solving the problem differently with their expertise and the experiences its a clear example of that the manager are Creative thinker, Active listening, analysis, research, communication, dependability, decision making, Team building.
3- Any time a customer completes a satisfaction survey about their shopping experience, they receive a "$10 off your next purchase" coupon. This represents:
a. a standard decision. b. cognitive dissonance. c. a nonprogrammer decision. d. experience. e. a decision rule.
Ans : Customer satisfaction survey also known as CSAT , its a term used in marketing. Its a measure how products and services supplied by a company meet or surpass customer expectation . Customer satisfaction is defined as the number of customer or percentage of total customer whose reported experience with the firm its products or its services (ratings) exceeds specified satisfaction goals.
A.a standard decision means effective decisions
to achieve key goals. It is a standard approach for describing and
modeling decisions within organizations.
B.cognitive dissonance: Its a situation involving
attitudes beliefs behaviors. This produces a feeling of mental
discomfort leading to an alteration in one of the attitudes.
Beliefs or behaviors to reduce the discomfort and restore
balance.
c.a nonprogrammed decision: Its decisions are novel, unstructured decisions that are generally based on criteria that are not well defined.
D:experience: Experience is the effects or influence of an event or subject gained through involvement in or exposure.
E.a decision rule: Decision rule is a procedure the the researcher uses to decide whether to accept or rejects.
4- You are the manager at a large manufacturing plant. Last year you authorized the expenditure of $500,000 for what you thought was a promising new project for the company. So far, the results have been disappointing. The employees running the project say that with an additional $300,000 they may be able to turn things around. Without your approval of extra funding, there is little hope. Although persistence may seem irrational from the organization’s point of view, you make the decision to authorize the additional spending because you do not want to admit error and expose your mistakes to the board of directors. No one wants to appear incompetent. This is a clear example of ______________
a. Miscommunication b. escalation of commitment c. information overloads d.misperception excises communication
Ans: its a clear example of miscommunication, it’s a lack of alignment of the organizations.