Emerald Article: How women entrepreneurs lead and why they manage that way Dorothy Perrin Moore, Jamie L. Moore, Jamie W. Moore
Operations management is in regard to all operations within the organization responsible for creating goods and services that organizations pass to their customers. This function is at the heart of all organizations, giving the means of achieving their aims and reason for their existence. These activities include: managing purchases, inventory control, quality control, storage and logistics. A great deal of focus in operations is on efficiency and effectiveness of such a process.
The operations management can be defined as the systematic processes which convert inputs in to finished goods or service by adding the value. The operations management is very important in modern days as the competitiveness among the businesses very high. Therefore most of the organizations do have a special functional unit for manage the operational activities of
Operations Management refers to the management of the design, execution and control of operations which then turns resources into tangible goods and / or services. Global sourcing is a major part of operations management. Businesses should try to find the cost efficient location to manufacture their goods. If manufacturing, delivery and wages of employees are cheaper in a certain country, operation facilities should be located at the country to save money. Operations management is also in charge of researching and developing new ideas to sell.
The accessibility of businesses through social media and the web have made many entrepreneurs able to reach consumers throughout the world they would otherwise not be able to do business with. Women have often found themselves underperforming in the workforce and as traditional small business owners in comparison to similarly employed or self-employed men (Huarng et al., 2012). However, there has been little research investigating the extent to which these new social media, web, and digital marketing technologies and their strategies benefit women entrepreneurs of already profitable small businesses in comparison to men who employ similar strategies. A descriptive quantitative study is needed to investigate the use of social media, web, and digital marketing technologies in the businesses of successful women entrepreneurs in comparison to similarly successful men entrepreneurs by studying the effects of their digital strategy by concentrating on their digital analytical data on similar digital and social media platforms and measuring that data. This study plans to provide data that will help determine whether profitable small businesses are effected by gender on the Web 2.0 and help close the gender gap.
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This chapter provides a definition of operations management. The role and importance of operations in an organization are described, along with operations decisions that are made. The differences between manufacturing and services are described. The history and current trends of operations management are discussed, including the impact of information systems. Finally, the interaction between operations and other business functions are described.
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It involves planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling all the resources needed to produce a firm’s goods and services. Because operations management is a management function, it involves managing people, apparatus, technology, information, and all the other resources needed in the production of goods and services . The Transformation Role of Operations Management We say that operations management performs a transformation role in the process of converting inputs such as raw materials into finished goods and services. These inputs include human resources, such as workers, staff, and managers facilities and processes, such as buildings and equipment they also include materials, technology, and information. In the traditional transformation model outputs are the goods and services a company
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