Discuss the topic of productivity in short. Is the United States still productive and/or competitive in manufacturing from a World Class standpoint? Please support your answer. Make sure you check out the Week 1 Web Links before you attempt to answer this question. Why Europe lags behind the United States in productivity?
Duke has been a successful used-car dealer for 25 years in the same location, operating as a proprietorship. In those 25 years, he has expanded his operation and become the largest independent car dealer in a city of 85,000 people. The few people in town can boast of a business reputation better than Duke's. As he says "I've alw
Another benefit of JIT is that it gives a firm the flexibility to customize products for customers as well as easily and quickly adapt to changes in trends and technology because they don't hold raw materials and components, but also because a firm tends to have good relationships with their suppliers. Agree or disagree? P
Virtually all functions of the firm impact an MRP system. For instance, purchasing performance affects delivery, changes in capacity (i.e., labor, maintenance, breakdowns) impact throughput, sales impact the master schedule as do financial issues such as capital expenditure for capacity, engineering performance such as meeting s
Translate the following sentence into a standard-form categorical claim: "The only organic products are chemical-free products."
See attached This lab provides data to use for solving the number of kanbans required for four components at the ABC Company. Use MS Word to copy your answers. Scenario/Summary Situation: Solve the number of kanbans required for four components at the ABC Company using the table below. Component W Component X Component
Discuss the following statements and determine which of the claims say the same as which others. Give reasoning for your conclusions. a. If you haven't been tested, then you cannot give blood. b. If you can give blood, then you haven't been tested. c. You can give blood only if you've been tested. d. Nobody who's been
Johannes van den Bosch Sends an Email Joseph J. DiStefano After having had several email exchanges with his Mexican counterpart over several weeks without getting the expected actions and results, Johannes van den Bosch was getting a tongue-lashing from his British MNC client, who was furious at the lack of progress. Van d
Problem Set 4 Instructions Solve problems 5-12, 5-14, and 5-18. Save your responses in a Word file. 5-12: Develop a four-month moving average forecast for Wallace Garden Supply and compute the MAD. A three-month moving average forecast was developed in the section on moving averages in Table 5.3. see attached for d
Discussion on case: Brady Training I need help trying to address the following: How do you account for Bill's behavior during and after participation in the training? Should Bill stay with Brady or take a job with one of the other companies he has interviewed with? ********************************** The Brady Train
ADM has a warehouse located next to a railroad track. They buy truck loads of grain and warehouse the grain until they get enough to load a train. Once the grain is loaded on to the train it is sent to the Mississippi delta to be loaded in to a Panamax dry bulk ship for export to China. You have been hired by ADM as
What role does argumentation play in group work? What does it accomplish and how?
Discussion: The appropriate disciplinary actions needed are not always apparent to those involved. That is one reason our textbook will be a wonderful reference book and a great start to your professional library. The manager who wants to be fair and just is one who gives great thought before administering discipline. Case s
Explain how goals and rewards can motivate individual and group behaviors and outcomes. Recommend at least 2 types of individual goals and rewards, as well as 2 group goals and rewards that an organization can implement to motivate employees.
This is a case study in preparing for analysis purposes, to study on Security of information in commercial or business organizations. *This is a general approach, with no specific size of organization or industry type. 5 topics to cover: (1) Definitions of human, technical and physical information assets at potential r
Self Assessment Discuss the following as it relates to you. Summary Self-Evaluation:address the following points: 1. Do I enjoy bargaining? Do I enjoy being in situations of conflict, and/or do I enjoy attempting to persuade others to my point of view? Why? 2. Do others see me as a good bargainer? Am I seen as st
Wimpy, a character in Popeye cartoons, offers to 'gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today'. Why might Burger King find this to be an unattractive offer?
How do mortgages and bonds work?
Select a company and determine the type of suppliers it has and then indicate the criteria that you think the company might use to evaluate and select suppliers. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using part-time workers, subcontracting work, and building up inventory as strategies for meeting demand.
Too often, individuals will jump right into developing a research proposal with little to no thought of planning. That approach does not maximize the potential of the research to be usable and of value to the overall body of knowledge in the particular discipline or profession. To develop a research proposal, it is imperativ
When a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 crashed over Iowa, a subsequent investigation suggested that the planeâ??s hydraulic systems did not provide enough protection. The DC-10 had three separate hydraulic systems, all of which failed when an engine exploded. The engine threw off shreds of metal that severed two of the lines, and the
Job rotation has many positive aspects especially when an employee is seeking to transfer to another location or is in line for a promotion. Discuss the positive and negative aspects of the downward move associated with job rotation. What would you do as a training performance improvement specialist to put a positive spin on wha
1. What is the relationship between classical management, behavioral management and decisional sciences? Which style should I follow and why? 2. How is the government going to impact me with their laws regarding human resources? What is the most important law I should know and why? 3. What is a value chain? How would I
What are some key financial policies that a non profit organization does (or should) have in place? Why are they important?
Identify any instances of pseudoreasoning in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the pseudoreasons are irrelevant to the point at issue. 'Listen, Higgins. I need your vote in the next department electi
Identify any instances of pseudoreasoning in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the pseudoreasons are irrelevant to the point at issue. 'The police asked the neighbors on both sides of the Owens's hom
Need assistance answering the following questions: 1. What role do the measurements of unemployment and inflation have on the management of an organization? 2. What analyses might a manager do to learn more about a specific industry? Please provide at least three examples. 3. What role does trade have pertinent to how
Evaluate the types of information systems, computer hardware, and software and computer networks and determine which is most essential for a contemporary business. Explain your rationale. Determine the most likely security or ethical issues affecting the information system(s) or your current (or future) workplace. Make at le
Case on Work System Design (see case details below): 1. Discuss the ways in which Dr. Bay can use the data he collected. 2. Recommend ways the administrative assistant's jobs can be changed to make better use of their time and be more supportive to the facility. 3. Assess the benefits and consequences of each
http://www.inc.com/magazine/19981015/1114.html http://www.inc.com/magazine/19980401/908.html After looking at these articles, answer the following questions: a) How are the sources of "bad" ideas different from sources of "good" ideas? b) What make a bad idea? How does this compare to a good idea? c) What are the