MAHESWARI JAIKUMAR

OPERATION RESEARCH
• Operation research involves the
study of complex human
organizations & services to develop
new knowledge about institutions,
programmes, use of facilities &
personnel with an aim of improving
the work efficiency of an
organization
• OR is the application of scientific
method of investigation of the study
of complex human organizations &
services.

• The researcher is concerned with

the activities of a group of people
with the purpose of introducing
some changes.
• The main objective of operation
research is to develop new
knowledge about institutions,
programme, use of facilities etc to
improve the work efficiency of the
organization.

• OR translates research concepts into

measurable phenomena.
 EXAMPLE

• An operational research on worker’s

perception of safety devices in a
selected industrial setting.