"Work System Design" - Please respond to the following:
- Describe one of the worst jobs you believe you have encountered, and speculate on why people are still attracted to this job. Create a redesign plan for this job which focuses on improved productivity.
- Evaluate a compensation system of your choice in terms of how the compensation reinforces the behaviors needed to meet the company’s objective. Next, propose three improvements to the compensation system based on your evaluation.
"Project Management" - Please respond to the following:
- Using the four steps in network planning techniques, select a personal project that you have recently completed or are in the process of completing. Determine three to five challenges that could affect the estimated completion time.
- Defend the determination of crashing a non-critical activity in your personal project network. Provide specific examples to support your rationale.
"Inventory Management" Please respond to the following:
- Analyze the purpose of inventory management as it applies to operations management, and then evaluate the advantages and disadvantages evident in the use of the ABC classification system.
- Suggest a situation in which safety stock must be utilized, and then determine how the organization should decide on the reorder point when using this methodology.
"Aggregate Planning" - Please respond to the following:
- Illustrate, using one example, a situation that utilizes aggregate planning, and then determine which level (chase or hybrid) should be used by the organization in the situation you have illustrated. Provide specific examples to support your rationale.
- Compare and contrast two or three aggregate plans for companies with tangible products against aggregate plans for companies with nontangible products. Provide specific examples to support your rationale.