Discussion board from this week:

Explain how manufacturing companies can design jobs that provide the optimum balance between efficiency/low-cost and human development. Demonstrate your understanding of job design from this week’s readings. What does scripture specifically have to say about this? Take your stance using a Biblical worldview.

This weeks study ———————–

Work Design and Measurement

This week we will look at the design of work systems as it involves job design, work measurement, and compensation.

Job design is concerned with the content of jobs and work methods. In the past, job design tended to focus on efficiency, but now there seems to be an increasing awareness and consideration of the behavioral aspects of work and worker satisfaction. Current concern about productivity has thrust job design into the limelight. However, the jobs usually associated with high productivity are often the same jobs that are the greatest source of worker dissatisfaction, creating somewhat of a paradox for job designers.

Analysts often use methods analysis and motion study techniques to develop the “ efficiency” aspects of jobs, but these do not directly address behavioral aspects. Nonetheless, they are an important part of job design. Working conditions are also a notable aspect of job design, not only because of the behavioral and efficiency factors but also because of concern for the health and safety of workers.

Location Planning and Analysis

Location decisions confront both new and existing organizations. Growth, market shifts, depletion of raw materials, and the introduction of new products and services are among the reasons organizations are concerned with location decisions. The importance of these decisions is underscored by the long-term commitment they typically involve and by their potential impact on the operating system. The primary location options available to existing organizations are to expand an existing location, move to a new location, maintain existing facilities while adding another facility in a new location, or do nothing.

This week we will look at the major influences on location decisions: location of raw materials, labor supply, market considerations, community-related factors, site-related factors, and climate. Foreign locations may be attractive in terms of labor costs, abundance of raw materials, or as potential markets for a firm’s products or services. Problems organizations sometimes encounter in foreign countries include language differences, cultural differences, bias, and political instability.

We will also look at common approaches to selecting a location.

Objectives

By the end of this week, students will be able to:

• Explain and discuss how manufacturing companies can design jobs that optimize efficiency/low cost and human development.
• Develop and discuss job design concepts from a Biblical perspective.
• Define, recall, and identify terms and concepts associated with controlling processes, decision-making in operations management, Pareto, outsourcing, revenue management, competitive strategy, reliability, product design, product families, Kano model, efficiency, utilization, capacity planning, systems, job design and enlargement, methods analysis, operation cycles, and location analysis.
• Explain ethical issues that pertain to operations management.

Operations ManagementMcGraw-Hill Education; 13thedition (February 15, 2017) by William J Stevensone-copyTextbook with Connect access code: ISBN13: 978-1259948206

Read: Stevenson, Chapters 7-8

**** I will only need the 2 responses !

125-200 words each

Using your research to either add to or challenge their position.

At least one reference each.

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