1. Operations managers are responsible for assessing consumer wants and needs and selling and
promoting the organization's goods or services.
True False
2. Often, the collective success or failure of companies' operations functions will impact the
ability of a nation to compete with other nations.
True False
3. Companies are either producing goods or delivering services. This means that only one of the
two types of operations management strategies are used.
True False
4. Operations, marketing, and finance function independently of each other in most
organizations.
True False
5. The greater the degree of customer involvement, the more challenging the design and
management of operations.
True False
,6. Goods producing organizations are not involved in service activities.
True False
7. Service operations require additional inventory because of the unpredictability of consumer
demand.
True False
8. The value of outputs is measured by the prices customers are willing to pay for goods or
services.
True False
9. The use of models will guarantee the best possible decisions.
True False
10. People who work in the field of operations should have skills that include both knowledge
and people skills.
True False
11. Assembly lines achieved productivity but at the expense of standard of living.
True False
12. The operations manager has primary responsibility for making operations system design
decisions, such as system capacity and location of facilities.
True False
13. The word "technology" is used only to refer to "information technology".
True False
, 14. ‘Value added' by definition is always a positive number since 'added' implies increases.
True False
15. Service often requires greater labor content, whereas manufacturing is more capital
intensive.
True False
16. Measurement of productivity in service is more straightforward than in manufacturing since
it is not necessary to take into account the cost of materials.
True False
17. Special-purpose technology is a common way of offering increased customization in
manufacturing or services without taking on additional labor costs.
True False
18. One concern in the design of production systems is the degree of standardization.
True False
19. Most people encounter operations only in profit-making organizations.
True False
20. Service involves a much higher degree of customer contact than manufacturing.
True False
21. A systems approach emphasizes interrelationships among subsystems, but its main theme is
that the whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts.
True False
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