On Friday, 1st of October, we discussed one of the groups(ours) previous work with Mr. Sen and I learned that there were some points I misunderstood. I was a bit confused through out the lesson because I found it hard to follow Mr.Sen's questions because he was trying to make us think over and over by asking lots of questions. But closer to the end everything was clear to me.
Firstly we were asked what quality stand for and everyone had a different opinion. We all thought that quality could be measured and gave examples from the Mercedes Benz company. However it turned out that we were all wrong because quality is hard to measure, it is not as easy as we described it to be. The only way to measure it is to have a criteria and depend on it, but it is important to have different criteria for things we measure.
Secondly, I learned that I was wrong with the term of specialization, even though I knew what it meant the questions we were asked did not match with what I had in my mind. Mr. Sen told us that even though specialization increased efficiency it had some disadvantages. He gave examples from different kinds of sectors and explained how people could get bored about doing the same thing over and over. We ended up deciding that specialization would both increase and decrease efficiency, so it had to be done in the right way.
The last thing I learned from Fridays class discussion was that efficiency equaled outputs divided by inputs and it was the same thing with productivity. Both words have the same meaning and one can be used for the other at the same purpose. It was embarrassing not to know that they were the same :)
As a whole the class was really fun and interesting. Even though it seems that I am going to have hard times about following all the questions, it is good to know that there is a challenge waiting for me.
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