tactic

Examples of tactic in the following topics:

• Strategic versus tactical operations decisions

  • Tactical operations decisions have short to medium term impact on the organization, often involve less commitment of resources, and can be changed more easily than strategic decisions.
  • Tactical decisions include workforce scheduling, establishing quality assurance procedures, contracting with vendors, and managing inventory.

• Introduction

• Routing

  • At the tactical level of supply chain activities, the transportation strategy of goods must be considered.

• Strikes

  • This is either because the union refuses to endorse the tactic, or because the workers concerned are not unionized.
  • A similar tactic is the work-in, where employees occupy the workplace but still continue work, often without pay.
  • This tactic attempts to show they are still useful, or that worker self-management can be successful.
  • Another unconventional tactic is work-to-rule, in which workers perform their tasks exactly as they are required but no better.

• Lockouts

  • Employers are generally motivated to prevent, mitigate the impact of, and undermine strikes when they occur by using a variety of tactics.
  • Unions faced with a strikebreaking situation may try to inhibit the use of strikebreakers by a variety of methods, establishing picket lines where the strikebreakers enter the workplace; discouraging strike breakers from taking, or from keeping strikebreaking jobs; raising the cost of hiring strikebreakers for the company; or employing public relations tactics.

• Skills for building positive relationships

  • Negotiation skills are necessary for managers to ensure they understand the goals and tactics of others.

• Operations Management

  • Tactical operations decisions have short to medium term impact on the organization, often involve less commitment of resources, and can be changed more easily than strategic decisions.
  • The following are some tactical decisions:
  • Strategic and tactical operations decisions determine how well the organization can accomplish its goals.

• Separating the wheat from the chaff

  • False third-party tactics makes it easy for companies to hide behind a façade of smoke and mirrors.
  • Tactics range from spouting legal threats to collaborating with police and military forces.

• Strategy: the tactical rim on the wheel

• Pricing

  • implementing the strategy through the use of a variety of tactics and procedures to set prices
  • (TT Nagle, The Strategies and Tactics of Pricing, Prentice-Han, Inc.