$2)$ Reasons to study operations management include:

A$)$ studying how people organize themselves for productive enterprise.

B$)$ knowing how goods and services are consumed.

C$)$ understanding what human resource managers do

D$)$ learning about a costly part of the enterprise

E$)$ A and D

$3)$ Reasons to study operations management include learning about:

A$)$ how people organize themselves for productive enterprise.

B$)$ how goods and services are produced.

C$)$ what operations managers do$.$

D$)$ a costly part of the enterprise.

E$)$ all of these.

$1)$ The operations manager performs the management activities of planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling of the OM function.

Answer: TRUE

$2)$ "Considers inventory ordering and holding decisions" is within the strategic operations management decision area of managing quality.

$12)$ Which of the following influences layout design?

A$)$ inventory requirements

B$)$ capacity needs

C$)$ personnel levels

D$)$ technology

E$)$ All of these influence layout decisions.

$13)$ Which of the following is NOT a strategic operations management decision?

A$)$ maintenance

B$)$ price

C$)$ layout

D$)$ quality

E$)$inventory