Operations Management
Operations Management
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ISBN: 9781259667473
Author: William J Stevenson
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 1.6, Problem 1RQ
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The case deals about the importance of the manufacturing sector. The employment opportunities and development of the service sector does not mean that the manufacturing sector is not important to the economy. Technological innovation and outsourcing decreases the employment opportunity in the manufacturing sector.

The case strongly states that manufacturing sector is the source of innovation and the innovation would generate job in the future.

To determine: The importance of losing manufacturing jobs to the nation.

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The importance of losing manufacturing jobs to the nation is as follows:

Service sectors are important for many countries, as more than 70 percent of the employment opportunities of the countries is depends on the raise of service based industries. It continues to increase in future. Hence, service sector is crucial.

However, the improvement of service sector is based on the manufacturing sector, as the service sector is the dependent of manufacturing sector directly and indirectly. In addition to that, manufacturing sectors holds the large percentage of exports.

Losses of manufacturing jobs would result in loss of service jobs.

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