Operations Management: Sustainability and Supply Chain Management, Twelfth Edition

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• J R Simplot, 179

• Jackson Manufacturing Co., 437

• Jagoda Wholesalers, 130–131

• Japan/Japanese. see also Toyota Production System

  • collegial management structure, 170

  • Deming Prize, 218

  • earthquake damage, 472

  • 5Ss, 639

  • Gemba or Gemba walk, 651

  • kanban, 647–649

  • keiretsu networks, 448–449

  • SEATO and, 34

  • Takumi, 219

• JC Penney, 453

• Jidoka, 650, 651

• JIT. See Just-in-time

• Jo-Ann Stores, use of GIS system, 353

• Job characteristics, 413–414

• Job classifications, 412

• Job design, 412–415. see also Methods analysis

  • core job characteristics and, 413–414

  • definition, 412

  • Hawthorne Studies and, 413

  • job expansion, 413

  • labor specialization, 412

  • limitations of job expansion, 414

  • motivation and incentive systems and, 415

  • psychological components of, 413–414

  • self-directed ...