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Dr. Balbinder S. Deo
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Associate Professor
School of Business
University of Northern British Columbia
3333 University Way
Prince George, BC
Canada V2N 4Z9
BSc, MSc, PhD Industrial Engineering, University of Manitoba
MBA, PhD Business Management, PAU Ludhiana, Punjab, India
Office: Prince George Campus
Teaching and Learning Building,
Rm 10-4556
Tel: (250) 960-6462
Fax: (250) 960-6763
E-mail: deob@unbc.ca
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Biographical Information
Dr. Balbinder Deo worked in academic and industrial organizations for more than 20 years. He earned Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from University of Manitoba, Canada in addition to Ph.D. Degree in Business Management from PAU Ludhiana, Punjab, India. He joined School of Business, UNBC, Prince George campus in 2002. Prior to joining UNBC, Dr. Deo worked at University of Saskatchewan, University of Manitoba, and at Punjab Agricultural University Ludhiana. In addition to his work experience in academic institutions, he also worked on various industry related research projects related to Inco Limited Thomson, NewHolland Canada Limited, Winnipeg, International Tractors Limited, Mollins of India Limited, and Punjab Markfed and Allied Industries. At present he is working on projects such as the development of Prince Rupert Port facility (BC), logistics cluster at Prince Rupert, impact of Prince Rupert Port facility on interior region such as Prince George (BC), and other projects such as operational problems of local retail outlets.
More information on Dr. Deo's industry experience can be found in his Curriculum Vitae.
Research Interests
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).
Dr Deo published his work in Industrial Management; Industrial Engineer; Statistical Papers; Model Assisted Statistics & Applications (MASA); Academy of Taiwan Business Management Review; Effective Management, and in peer reviewed proceedings of Institute of Industrial Engineering Research (IERC); Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Conferences; International Conference on Productivity and Quality Research; and Canadian Institute of Forestry and Society of American Foresters. Industrial Management; and Industrial Engineer; are the professional publications of the Institute of Industrial Engineering (USA) and are distributed throughout the world through various chapters of the Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE). REFA, Germany (Association of Industrial Engineering in Germany) also selected his five papers for inclusion in the publication of text material for master level program (M.Sc.) in Industrial Engineering in Germany.
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Courses Taught at UNBC
Under-graduate
COMM 100 – Introduction to Canadian Business
COMM 251 – Management Science COMM 350 – Operations Management
COMM 443 – Marketing Research
Graduate
COMM 650 – Operations Management
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Sample of Publications
Other Publications can be found in Dr. Deo's Curriculum Vitae.
Youmin, D., Strong, D., & Deo, B. (2009). Communicating Cost and Performance. Industrial Management, 51(4), 22-25. Retrieved from Business Source Complete database.
Ding, Youmin, Doug Strong, and Balbinder Deo, “Function Based Standard Activity Structure (FBSAS) for measuring Productivity in Manufacturing”, published in the annual conference proceedings of Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), held at Niagara Falls, Ontario, June 06-09, 2009.
More Information: View ASAC, Vol 30
Salah Elsheikh and Balbinder Deo, “Identifying Liquid Inventory Related Holes in Retail Sector- A review”, published in Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC) peer reviewed proceedings, Miami, Florida, May 30-June 03, 2009.
Hampe, Kieth and Balbinder Deo, “Evaluation of Operations Strategy – A Productivity Measurement approach”, published in the annual proceedings of Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) conference, held at Halifax, May 24-27, 2008.
More Information: View ASAC, Vol 29
Deo, Balbinder, “Structure of Work Unit and Work systems”, published in the annual conference proceedings of Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), held at Ottawa, June 03-06, 2007.
More Information: View ASAC,
Vol 28
Hampe, Kieth and Balbinder Deo, “A Model to Evaluate a City for an In-land Port Facility”, published in the annual conference proceedings of Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), held at Ottawa, June 03-06, 2007.
More Information: View ASAC,
Vol 28
Deo, Balbinder and Doug Strong, (2005), “A Generic Costing Framework for a Simulation Environment”, published in Model Assisted Statistics and Applications (MASA) in 2005. MASA is an International Journal (IOS publication) published from The Netherlands.
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University of Northern British Columbia
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