According to the text, outside agriculture, the average wage for women is about
_________ that of men's. - ANSWERCore Technology
____ production represents mechanization and standardization one step beyond
those in an assembly line. - ANSWERContinuous process production
The management systems in both unit-production and continuous-process
technology are characterized as - ANSWEROrganic
The heart of ____ is not machines, but employee involvement. - ANSWERLean
manufacturing
The awesome advantage of the digital factory is that: - ANSWERThey link
manufacturing components that used to stand-alone. Thus robots, machines,
product design, and engineering analysis are coordinated by a single computer
system
Woodward's classification of technology (into three clusters of organizational
technologies) was based on a scale that measured - ANSWERTechnical complexity
1.Small batch and unit production
2.Large batch and mass production
3.Continuous process production
Which one of the following basic technology groups relies heavily on the human
operator and is not highly mechanized? - ANSWERSmall batch production
A retail store such as Macy's would be an example of a ____ organization. -
ANSWERProduct
The frequency of unexpected and novel events that occur in the conversion process
refers to: - ANSWERVariety
Perrow is most concerned with which of the following? - ANSWERVariety and
Analyzability
The systems that automate the organization's routine, day-to-day business
transactions such as data from sales or purchases from suppliers are called: -
ANSWERTransaction processing systems (TPS)
The initial applications of information technology by organizations were in the area
of: - ANSWER...