Operations Management

Ok, I looked at them. It wasn't stated whether I should do anything more than look. The positions were for Cross Dock Expert, IT Operations Management and an internship for Supply Chain/Operations Management.

By definition, management and research are quite different. Research deals with the theories and practice of management from an external perspective. The researcher is the observer, analyst and thinker. By contrast, operations management is internal, where the manager is directly responsible for the act of management, rather than gaining information about operations to be processed via research methods. The researcher studies; the manager does. Management means to allocate resource to enact a transformation process.

In a fast food restaurant, the labor (transforming) produces meals (transformed), taking what is theoretically food and transforming it into something that people eat. In a hotel, labor (transforming) transforms the space (transformed), as it is the rooms that are the...
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