Operations Management (The Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin Series Operations and Decision Sciences) [Import] [Paperback]

Schroeder (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 520 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 2nd Ed edition (December 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072498919
• ISBN-13: 978-0072498912
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,014,088 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good supplementary text, January 25, 2006

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Michael Emmett Brady "mandmbrady" (Bellflower, California ,United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Operations Management: Contemporary Concepts and Cases with Student CD-ROM (Paperback)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars poorly written, October 20, 2009

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This review is from: Operations Management (Paperback)

In no other textbook have I seen a whole page completely filled by so many words. One page, for example, has 12 straight paragraphs with no subject headers and nothing in the margins telling you anything and one word highlighted without providing a definition. Then on other pages, they stick these random handshake pictures throughoout the text margins. It vaguely defines x and r charts but doesn't even show one. The examples given in the text are not explained at all. poorly written.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Lacks direction, September 10, 2008

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Dylia (MN, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Operations Management: Contemporary Concepts and Cases (Paperback)

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.