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Role Of Behavior In Operations Management

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OPERATION MANAGEMENT CIA-1 ASSIGNMENT

Behavior in operations management: Assessing recent findings and revisiting old assumptions

SANJANA K KALLUR
1528152
MBA ‘N’

TITLE OF THE PAPER: Behavior in operations management: Assessing recent findings and revisiting old assumptions

AUTHOR(S): Elliot Bendoly, Karen Donohue, Kenneth L. Schultz

JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Operations Management

Year of publication: Received 1 May 2005; received in revised form 27 October 2005; accepted 27 October 2005

WEB LINK: https://www.utdallas.edu/negcent/seminars/donohue/Donohue-JOM.pdf

Abstract
A perspective on why the behavioral research is critical to the operations management (OM) field is provided in this paper and what prior research …show more content…

Introduction
There are many latest tools and techniques that are simple and easy to apply.
Despite this, often there’s a disconnection between the concepts introduced in class and actual thumb-rule followed. This gap is due to either lack of awareness by OM decision maker or lack of applicability of the tools. The 3 issues that can impact the operational success are lack of trust between supply chain partners, incentives misalignment and natural risk aversion.
A framework is provided for thinking about the behavioral assumptions that are used in operational model. 3 assumptions are divided into 3 categories: Intentions, Actions, and Reactions. This allows in systematic questioning of the underlying OM model assumptions and their implications on performance. This paper discusses the benefits of using behavioral experiments.

Research methodology …show more content…

Supply chain management
Issues related to bullwhip effect is focused by the experimental work in supply chain management. Bullwhip effect is a phenomenon where orders received at each level of the supply chain increase in variation as one moves further from the final consumer.

Major findings and results
Behavioral issues may arise in areas like product development, quality management, procurement and strategic sourcing, and supply chain management. Operational management theory that concerns the institutional and interaction effects is beginning to emerge in these areas. Experiments are the important tool used to test the game theories results in OM. Tests of the reaction and action assumptions are associated with operational management settings. While experimental research continues Action category continues to dominate and reaction to gain momentum. The literature review falls under 3 types:
(1) Industrial experiments: here real workers perform authentic tasks
(2) Laboratory experiments: here subjects take part in authentic tasks
(3) Situational experiments: here subjects are expected to answer questions based on certain situations.

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