MGT 613
MGT 613
Employee empowerment is a new way of managing organizations towards a more complex and
competitive future. A TQM strategy is deemed to fail if empowerment of employees is absent. The
progression of practices aimed at improving product and service quality, starting from basic inspection,
advancing through statistical quality control, and evolving into comprehensive total quality management
(TQM) systems that emphasize continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.
Dimensions of Total Quality Management (TQM) Element of Total Quality Management (TQM)
Quality conscience of poor quality = 1. Business loss 2. Lability: bills, salaries, 3.productivity: loss
productivity 4. Cost: cost increase.
What would happen if customer’s expected quality and perceived quality do not match? Explain by
giving an example.
Customers expect certain things from certain companies so that is called costumer expected quality.
Everyone has perception of service quality The perceived quality is the quality after the perceptions of
costumer.
Quality Guru
The guru quality are given more respect and recognize as key contributors to quality management.
Dimension of quality
Movement of truth
Each customer contact (between service provide or customer contact) is called movement of truth.
An organization has the ability of either satisfy or dissatisfy them when you contact them.
How would you illustrate the problems that you may encounter in scheduling the service operations?
Scheduling service systems presents certain problems not generally encountered in manufacturing
systems. This is primarily due to: 1. The inability to store services 2. The random Scheduling nature of
customer requests 3. Flight schedules 4. Control costumer services 5. the workforce.
QFD can strongly help an organization focus on the critical characteristics of a new and existing product
and services from a separate view-point of customer market, market segment, company and technology
development needs.
Six Sigma Management concepts find greater appreciation and application in recent times. The Six
Sigma Management characteristics include:
1. Define
2. Measure
3. Analysis
4. Improve 5. Control
Define aggregate planning. Discuss its role in FMCG department of a departmental store.
Aggregate planning is the process of developing, analyzing, and maintaining a preliminary, approximate
schedule of the overall operations of an organization. The aggregate plan generally contains targeted
sales forecasts, production levels, inventory levels, and customer backlogs.
Capacity Options: The common capacity options primarily focus on. 1. Hire and layoff workers 2.
Overtime/slack time 3. Part-time workers 4. Inventories 5. Subcontracting 6. Maintain a level workforce
What is meant by independent demand and a firm can meet such type of demands?
Gantt charts are of various types. Give a brief description about al least two types of Gantt charts. 3
marks
Gantt chart - used as a visual aid for loading and scheduling Two types of Gantt chart
Load chart – A type of Gantt chart that shows the loading and idle times for a group of machines or list
of departments
Schedule chart – A type of Gantt chart that shows the orders or jobs in progress and whether they are
on schedule or not.
What wou`ld be the annual ordering cost, if annual demand is 300 units where the order size is 250
units and ordering cost is Rs. 10 per order?
Annual ordering cost = no. of orders placed in a year x cost per order = annual demand/order
quantity x cost per order annual demand= 300 order quantity=250 cost per order= 10 =300/250x10 =
12 Annual ordering cost is 1