Operations Management

Consistently touted as one of Stevenson and Hojati’s greatest strengths, Operations Management has been written both clearly and concisely. Stevenson is designed to promote student understanding of the role of operations management in successful business, which, in turn, promotes student success in class.

This text strives to achieve a careful balance in the presentation of operations management and to balance classical topics with new developments that particularly interest students.

These real-life examples balance off against both the theoretical material and hands-on experiential cases used to present the core material in the text. At the same time, the text is widely regarded for its clarity and conciseness, offering students an easy-to-navigate and understand connection between the theoretical and the practical sides of the coin. Students will learn about operations management in Canadian businesses side-by-side with their American and international counterparts, an approach that mirrors their experience in the real world outside the classroom.

Dr. Stevenson is an associate professor of Decision Sciences in the College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in operations management and management science. Dr. Stevenson is the author of textbooks in management science, statistics, and operations management. His articles have appeared in Management Science, Decision Sciences, Quality Progress, and other journals. He received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in production/operations management, from Syracuse University.

Dr. Hojati is an associate professor of operations management in the Edwards School of Business at the University of Saskatchewan. He teaches operations management and purchasing and supply management. He has taught and prepared teaching materials for the Purchasing Management Association of Canada. His articles have appeared in the International Journal of Production Economics, Production & Inventory Management Journal, and others. His research interests are in the applications of operations research techniques in operations. Dr. Hojati received a bachelor’s degree in economics and a master’s degree in operational research from London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. in management science from the University of British Columbia. He is certified in Production and Inventory Management (CPIM), awarded by APICS (the Association for Operations Management).