Past Year Questions OPM 530 COMPILATION OF PAST YEAR QUESTIONS OPM 530 – INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT JAN 2012 – OCTOBER 2006 CHAPTER 1- Introduction to Operations Management and Productivity JUN2012 a) Define productivity and elaborate on any four (4) importance of productivity to an organization. (10 marks) b) Discuss any five (5) challenged faced by today’s operations managers (10 marks) APR 2011 a) Define operations management with the aid of appropriate diagram. b) Discuss any
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Case study: an ethical dilemma involving a dying patient. Abstract Nursing often deals with ethical dilemmas in the clinical arena. A case study demonstrates an ethical dilemma faced by healthcare providers who care for and treat Jehovah ’s Witnesses who are placed in a critical situation due to medical life-threatening situations. A 20-year-old‚ pregnant‚ Black Hispanic female presented to the Emergency Department (ED) in critical condition following a single-vehicle car accident. She exhibited
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When it comes to animal research I feel there are to major dilemmas that arise that play a major role in how we determine the research methods as ethical or not: (1) do certain non-human species have changed consciousness and (2) to what extent do the animals suffer or experience death and how that influences their overall “well-being.” I pose these to issues because as rational‚ logical creatures we are capable of answering these two questions for ourselves and discuss our thoughts and feelings
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Running head: ANALYSIS OF ETHICAL DILEMMA FROM CURRENT EVENTS Analysis of Ethical Dilemma from Current Events Lilly Fernandus Grand Canyon University Ethical Decision Making in Health Care NRS 437 V July 16‚ 2011 Analysis of Ethical Dilemma from Current Events Nowadays‚ ethical dilemmas are an integral part of the health care system. It takes place when there are different opinions on moral claims. We get to a conflict when there is good evidence to indicate that a certain act
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One of the most challenging moral/ethical dilemmas to resolve occurs when the patient’s autonomous choices conflict with the nurse’s duty to look out for the patient’s best interests. The scenario presented to me describes a conflict between a patient who refuses to bathe and a nurse whose duty is to provide the patient’s care. Because of the patient’s physical condition and inability to get out of bed‚ they require a two-person bath involving lifts. The patient refuses to bathe at the time scheduled
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that I have a choice in this matter. I can’t sit idle while you and that twit from financial analysis allow this report to go forward. You both know that these numbers have no foundation in fact.” The report‚ titled “Endangered Species: The pulp and Paper Industry in the Upper Peninsula‚” laid out the industry’s response to the new government proposals to put effluent controls ion the discharge of wastewater from pulp and paper mills in environmentally sensitive regions of the province. One
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Web-Based Training Verses Instructor-Led Training Justina Miller COM 101 Chari Davenport June 18‚ 2003 In my department‚ we offer two types of training for automotive dealers. The first type is our Web-Based Training (WBT)‚ and the second is Instructor-Led Training (ILT). These training courses have many similarities‚ such as learning objectives‚ total content‚ layout‚ structure and flow. They differ‚ however‚ in how each course is delivered‚ when the learning takes place‚ and the cost of
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comes to young children. Older children can hold onto more information in their working memories than can younger children can (Cobb‚ 2001). Although there have not been many studies on children’s memory versus time‚ there have been studies based around children’s memory in general. In one such study‚ a researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia found that children’s increased speed of recall accompanies the improvement in short-term memory (Cowman‚ 2005). This is important because
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Adelajda Zhgaba Medical Ethics PHL 211 Ethical considerations in chemotherapy treatment for cancer patients 1. Would it be ethically concerning to accept refusal of chemotherapy treatment from cancer patients‚ more importantly from teenagers diagnosed with this disease? According to the National Cancer Institute‚ approximately 12.7 million people are diagnosed with cancer each year and 7.6 million of them die from this disease. People usually undergo chemotherapy‚ radiation therapy‚
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reign of apartheid had lasted for a period of 45 years‚ and now the TRC was asking them to simply forget the wretched past. In the meantime‚ all the perpetrators of crimes from the era where walking away scot-free. To me‚ it just does not seem fair that these villains of such hate crimes can just walk away‚ and leave all their crimes unaccounted for. In addition‚ the blacks were not even able to receive any monetary form of compensation for all their years of segregation and ill treatment. Moreover‚ the
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