The Nature of Operations Management In your PART B – Report please make sure to address the following: – For the Part B – Report, it is required to examine a Job Description for an Operation Manager’s position.
You are required to select an advert for an Operation Manager’s role: you may select an advert from any online recruitment agency. You MUST include the job advert as an Appendix to your Report. – Using appropriate theory, literature, techniques, and approaches that you have encountered in the module, discuss the following: • What is likely to be the operational challenges that the successful candidate would face? (20%) • How would you address the main issues? (80%) An advisable structure for Part B – Report is the following: Create a titled Introduction that outlines the nature of Operation Management with specific use of theoretical frameworks/ resources. Finally, your introduction may be concluded/ end with the purpose of the Part B i.e. ‘finally, this paper seeks to identify possible operational challenges of the operational manager of the advert XYZ…. etc.’ The introduction may be approximately 400 words limit. The main body of your Part B – Report (approximately 2300 words limit) could be divided into sub-chapters while exploring the operational challenges that the successful candidate would face as well as identify and explain how you would address the main issues. Please REMEMBER to support your ASSERTIONS with appropriate theoretical information especially while identifying possible challenges as well as recommend ways in which you could have addressed the main issues. Finally, feel free to utilize appropriate theory, literature, techniques and approaches that you have encountered in the module i.e. JIT/lean, quality planning and control agile strategies etc. Conclude your PART B – Report with a conclusion of approximately 300 words. In a separate page after your conclusion please include the reference list of ALL the resources used and text-cited in the PART B – Report. Your references do not count in the word limit of the PART B. Appendices (REMEMBER TO INCLUDE THE advert for an Operation Manager’s role)
