Shopping Centre College Essays Samples For Students

Operations Management for Garden Gallery

Introduction
Working for Garden Gallery (a commercial shopping centre) for three years as a Strategic Communications Expert has allowed me the opportunity to interact with all the departments in the organization and to observe the mechanisms and the processes involved in the operations management system. Likewise, while developing the internal communication flux within departments of the organization or for various processes, I had the opportunity to observe and evaluate in – depth the operations performance measurement system used in the organization. Based on my evaluation I have identified that the operations performance measurement system (meant to generate operations performance improvement) currently ...

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- A 95% confidence interval for the mean income of shop assistants in a certain city is found to be (£12,000, £15,000). Explain briefly what this means. Would a 99% confidence interval be better than a 95% one? Justify your answer.
ANS – It means that there is 95% probability that the value of the parameter i.e. individual incomes of different shop assistants shall lie within the range of £12,000 to £15,000. Yes, 99% confidence level is better than a 95% one as it increases the probability of the incomes of different shop assistants to lie within the defined ...

1(a) What is meant by the term random sample (line 34)?

The term random sample means a part of a population chosen for investigation without following any specific scientific pattern. The elements of the sample are chosen without following a definite pattern.

1(b) State the formula for calculating ‘market share’ percentage (line 50)?

Market share percentage=

1 (c) Tom believes that the level of spending per visit by his customers will stay the same in 2011 and 2012. Based on the information in the case study, how many customers is he anticipating in 2012?

Number of customers expected=8350 customers.

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