OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT So What Is Operations Management? So What Is Operations Management? So What Is Operations Management? • Managing and directing activities of all forms is crucial in organizations • Accomplished by designing efficient and productive processes‚ and by effectively allocating resources What Makes a Successful Operations Manager ? Success Factors · · · · · · · · Quantitative proficiency The ability to identify and control risk Strong organizational
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Warren Bryan 3/5/12 Book Review: Capitalism & Freedom Author: Milton Friedman Milton Friedman’s Capitalism & Freedom is one of the most important books regarding economics of the 20th century. His thoughts laid the groundwork for the emerging modern conservative movement‚ which was an evolution of the 19th century beliefs surrounding liberalism. Friedman’s major themes of his most famous work consist of the roles of competitive capitalism‚ as well as the role that government should
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The Book Hot Flat and Crowded written by Thomas Friedman is a book that shows many problems both with the United States and the world today. Each of these problems has the potential to forever change the world. In fact‚ some of them have already made significant changes. Hot describes the climate change or global warming that the world is experiencing. Flat explains the globalization of marketplaces that is occurring. Crowded depicts the rapid population growth that is occurring which is causing
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Introduction This essay is about Milton Friedman theory relevant to political economy. He lived (1912-2006) ‚ was the twentieth century’s most outstanding advocate of free markets ‚ at that time Keynes’s theory was dominating and he challenged that approach ‚ In 1976 he won the Nobel Prize in economics for his achievements in the field of consumption analysis‚ monetary history and theory ‚his theory is to bring inflation under control and restrict growth in the money supply ‚
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Milton Friedman suggests that businesses should only be responsible for making profits. If a business stays within the law‚ it is encouraged to do anything and go to any means necessary to maximize the bottom line. Other aspects such as customer happiness‚ impacts on society should not be its main concern. Porter and Kramer on the other hand suggest that we can create shared values in other words we can create economic value simultaneously by creating societal benefit and vice versa. Theoretically
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but also the reality tells that the time has changed. News can be spread worldwide in seconds through the Internet‚ and it can easily gather “Generation Q”‚ written by Thomas L. Friedman‚ and “The Generation of Generation Q”‚ written by Rob Fishman‚ share a common topic about behaviors of the current young generation. Friedman calls the young generation as Generation Q -- the Quiet Americans and criticizes that the generation is being too quiet. Fishman‚ however‚ expresses contrary opinion in his article
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Is Globalization a Good Thing? Globalization‚ as Friedman states‚ helps the world grow together as the advancement of technology has allowed poor nations to grow economically. On the contrary‚ Sen mentions that there needs to be institutional reforms for globalization to have a lasting effect on the world as a whole. Along with Sen‚ Florida argues that the world is spiky because of the wide disparity between rich and poor. With these three well accounted opinions in mind‚ I believe that Globalization
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dangerous to an economy as seen in many events of the past. On the other hand‚ too much government control can be detrimental to an individuals pride‚ as it renounces principles of freedom. Keynesian economic principles contradicts those of Milton Friedman‚ as he believes that in times of inflation or recession‚ intervention is necessary to preserve stability within society.. Balance is necessary in a economy to avoid fluctuations and increase the prospect of sustainability. Therefore‚ in order to
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permanent income hypothesis‚ proposed by Milton Friedman in 1957‚ is that people base consumption on what they consider their “normal income”. In doing this‚ they attempts to maintain a fairly constants standard of living even thought their incomes may vary considerably from month to month or from year to year. As a result‚ increase and decrease in income that people see as temporary have little effect on their consumption spending. Friedman asserts that consumption is determined by long term
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Poor people do not have weaker work ethics or lower levels of motivation than wealthier people (Iversen & Farber‚ 1996; Wilson‚ 1997). Although poor people are often stereotyped as lazy‚ 83 percent of children from low-income families have at least one employed parent; close to 60 percent have at least one parent who works full-time and year-round (National Center for Children in Poverty‚ 2004). In fact‚ the severe shortage of living-wage jobs means that many poor adults must work two‚ three
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