Deo, Balbinder
Professor
Business
University of Northern British Columbia
Canada
Biography
Associate Professor, School of Business BSc, MSc, PhD Industrial Engineering, University of Manitoba MBA, PhD Business Management, PAU Ludhiana, Punjab, India
Research Interest
The main thrust of Dr. Deo’s research work with industrial organizations is to search the technical and managerial causes of low productivity in manufacturing as well as in service operations. His hands-on experience with industrial organizations enabled him understand a wide variety of production systems, such as: assembly line; ore mining and processing; oil seeds processing; vegetative oil extraction and processing; job-shop type manufacturing systems, and project type work systems. His research interests can be categorized as; Operation Based Costing, Activity Based Costing, Productivity measurement in operations, and of organizations, Audit of operations and systems in primary, secondary, and tertiary organizations in Government and Non-Government sector, Simulation modeling and computer aided cost information system development, Green operations & Materials flow analysis (MFA).
Publications
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Deo, Balbinder, “Structure of Work Unit and Work systemsâ€, published in the annual conference proceedings of Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), held at Ottawa, June 03-06, 2007.
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Salah Elsheikh and Balbinder Deo, “Identifying Liquid Inventory Related Holes in Retail Sector- A reviewâ€, published in Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC) peer reviewed proceedings, Miami, Florida, May 30-June 03, 2009.
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Youmin, D., Strong, D., & Deo, B. (2009). Communicating Cost and Performance. Industrial Management, 51(4), 22-25.
