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This 10 page paper shows the student how to design a research questionnaire to gain information form employees. In this case a car supplier has only a few suppliers and need to find more. The questionnaire is designed to gather information about potential new suppliers based on employee knowledge. The paper then shows how these results can be presented. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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10 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TS14_TEsupresh.rtf
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difficult problems. The company has developed into an efficient company comparable in terms of efficiency with the companies operating in Japan. However, there is a major weakness, there is an
heavy reliance ion external suppliers for high quality parts. In many models, for examples, Porters Five Forces model looks at different influences on of which is the influence of suppliers.
The danger is a break in this supply chain will be difficult to remedy in the short term, and to remedy this weakness there needs to be alterative so suppliers
do not have the same level of influence or control. The research is designed to identify different potential suppliers, those who are either able to meet the current strict quality
controls by meeting the inspection requirements for the vendors or by having attained QS9000; 2000 if this accreditation is held then it can be assumed the company is meeting the
required standards level. To assess this the use of the existing knowledge fo the workforce may be a sutable target for the surveys (Curwin and Slater, 1996)
The research is a questionnaire which is being circulated to employees to help identify potential suppliers that will meet the current supply standards and save the
company time in contacting only those companies that already meet the criteria. The survey is as follows 1. What department within NUMMI do you work for? This question may be
phrased as either a multiple choice is the student is aware of the different departments, or as an open ended questions, both of these will allow for classification. 2. What
suppliers of car parts are you aware of, who do not already supply any car parts to NUMMI, please give any contact details you have. Name of supplier Any contact
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