Operations Management: Contemporary Concepts and Cases with Student CD-ROM | 
 enlarge | Author: Roger Schroeder
Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 124791
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 538
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.2
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0073230588
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.5
EAN: 9780073230580
Publication Date: November 7, 2005
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Condition: CD included. Markings Throughout. Shows wear. Orders shipped within 1 business day.
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Product Description
Operations Management: Contemporary Concepts and Cases, is an ideal book for the instructor seeking a short text with cases. This book employs a cross-functional perspective, appealing to non-majors and practical for use in an MBA level course in operations management. The size and price of the book also make the text attractive for the cross-functional curriculum where students are required to purchase more than one text. The cases offer variety in length and rigor; and several are from Harvard and Darden. This mix makes the book appropriate for both undergraduates and MBA students.
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 A good supplementary text January 26, 2006
Michael Emmett Brady (Bellflower, California ,United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Schroeder has written a very good broad,introductory text that can be effectively used in three different ways.The book can be used as an introduction to operations management for non business or liberal arts majors.The second way that the book can be used is as a supplement to the Knod-Schonberger book or the Stevenson book.The management case studies section at the end of the book is excellent .However, it is not recommended that this book be used as a core textbook in a formal operations management course in a business department curriculum unless the instructor intends to supplement the students reading with numerous technical handouts.For instance,a handout on basic cost-volume analysis must have already been digested by the student before he could make any sense out of the example or exercise problems in chapter 12(Facilities and Aggregate Planning). Shroeder may have assumed that the reader of his text will already have completely mastered many/most of the basic operations management tools and techniques.This should be the case in graduate level courses;the book would be a useful supplement in MBA courses.
Pretty good choice October 7, 2008
Muhammad Y. Hashim
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The condition is good and the time to be delivered was just like promised before, in fact, the seller replied my email each time i asked question like is this really book that i want, ISBN, the year, edition and so forth.
Nice choice after all.
 Lacks direction September 10, 2008
Dylia (MN, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I purchased this book as it was required for an operations management class (undergrad). Therefore, because of this, I had no choice in the purchase. Having said that, the book itself is terribly written. It bolds words that it doesn't ever properly define--as if it expects you to know the meaning to begin with or wants you to try to muddle out the meaning from the poor context. It also refers back to those undefined words and says, 'As defined in the previous paragraphs.' It does not define those words in the back of the book either, leaving you with a vague feeling that the book should have been edited better or at least not cost quite so much. The greatest assumption in this book seems to be that you already knew the information, which is, of course, impossible if you have never taken any classes about operations management. In short, unless you are forced to purchase it, it is not worth reading.
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