Operations Management

Author: Liu Xiaobing
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: The key characteristics of operations management are its purposefulness and strong practicality. This textbook emphasizes the integration of theory and practice through case studies of corporate operations management and incorporates various types of reflective questions to guide readers in thinking about both theory and application. The purposefulness of operations management is reflected in creating and producing products that meet diverse human needs while fully conserving resources. The practicality lies in the fact that different enterprises have different foundational conditions and varying management goals at different stages of time. This textbook focuses on demonstrating the integration of theory and practice through case studies of corporate operations management and designs different types of reflective questions to guide readers in thinking about theory and application. It is recommended that both teachers and readers also combine actual problems encountered in their work and familiar case studies of corporate operations management to read and deepen their understanding of the textbook, which will yield better learning outcomes.