Identify the critical operations decision areas in an organization and discuss the responsibilities of an operations manager while addressing these decisions.

The main responsibility is to manage activities pertaining to production or efficiency.

Explanation:

The responsibilities are broadly classified into Process, Design, plan, control, performance improvement.

Process: The operation manager plays major role in deciding which type of process to be followed so that the organizational goals are reached.

Plan: Huge decision making skill is used in this phase. Because if planning is perfect then half of the work is done.

Control & performance improvement: It is the responsibility of the manager to control the entire operation and also to take decision and find methods to improve the performance.