Operations Management can be summed up as the strategies employed by an organization to provide a competitive advantage to optimize all decisions and processes encountered in business practices. A solid operation management team ensures that company's day-to-day activities run smoothly and will assist in maximizing revenues. A key consideration of an effective OM manager is one that makes ethical decisions during the planning, review and implementation stages of any new process to be introduced. This …
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…behavior and into the realm of illegal operation. Better organizational ethics would explore additional alternatives of deciding which employees are to be let go at the risk of alienating those that remain loyal employees. References: Aquilano, N. J., Chase, R. B., & Jacobs, F. R. (2004). Operations management for competitive advantage. (10th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill Irwin. Ethics Quality (n.d.). Ethics and Culture Management Services. Retrieved from http://www.ethicsquality.com/about.htm