Discuss benefits and stumbling blocks with its implementation

Pick one of the topics below for your Individual Report:

Quality Management

• Compare, Contrast, & Synthesize
• Deming, Juran, and Crosby

Just-in-Time Delivery/Lean Manufacturing

• Discuss benefits and stumbling blocks with its implementation

Employee Work Schedules for Operations Working around-the-clock

• Discuss the Pros and Cons of the various schedules

Discuss the benefits, in terms of employee motivation, with the various behavioral approaches to work.  Compare and contrast those approaches with Taylor and Hawthorne perspectives

Discuss the Theory of Constraints and its application to operations management

Discuss Root-Cause Analysis Tools, and process monitoring, for Problem Solving

Discuss the various tools available for Project Management

• Include a discussion on scope creep

Discuss the Pros and Cons of the various approaches to workstation design, including process flow

Discuss the details of Six Sigma and the reality of its application in operations management

Compare, contrast, and synthesize the concept of internal and external customers and quality complaints