- Introduction about productivity and production in a hospital food system
- Discuss how productivity is measured
- find a common problem in a hospital food system such as, Low productivity levels of labor; provide 1 or 2 reference (evidence) that it is a problem
- provide reasons for why it is a problem
- use The decision making process Identification of the problem
- Development of decision criteria or statements describing the environment after the problem is solved.
- Identification of alternatives
- Selection one of a model to use in evaluating the alternatives that will solve the problem. Models with differing levels of complexity include:
- Verbal models, a spoken or written tool that expresses the relationships between variables.
- Schematic models show a pictorial relationship between or among variables. An example is a plan of a building or department.
- Iconic models are scaled physical replicas of objects or processes. An airplane model being tested in a wind tunnel is an example.
- Mathematical modelsshow functionalrelationships among variables. A math equation using variables x, y, and z is a mathematical model. Examples of each type of model will be given in class.
- Data collection to be used for each alternative's evaluation. , seeking information concerning each alternative.
- Evaluation of the data using the model selected. At this step, we put all the alternatives together and look at the results in terms of the original decision criteria established at the beginning.
- Final selection of the alternative is made at this point and implemented. We hope that this solves the problem, to be sure we go to the final step, and that is
- Evaluation of the selected alternative. After a time, we go back and evaluate. Is the problem truly solved or have we just taken care of a symptom?