MGMT 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Business Process Reengineering, Operations Management, Lean Manufacturing
16 Sep 2016
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3 important things that happened with the industrial revolution. 1: true division of labor- labor divided into multiple groups (you have your own skills) Communication problems, it"s not my job qa wasn"t self-managed. 2: they started replacing human and animal labor with machines. Economies of scale variable cost and you replace it with a fixed cost. Large companies spread because you can spread fc over many products (about 100yrs) 1. 2billion people in china, 1/5 live on farm. 3: interchangeable parts if they"re all the same they should all work the same (whitney) 100 years old. Hawthorne studies: productivity increases when they"re being watched, they felt important. Started to shed light on the importance of the worker. In 1946-47 us had 70% of the total manufacturing capacity in the planet! They didn"t care because there is no one that can compete with them. Japan doesn"t really have natural resources, they get them from our enemies.
