What do you consider to be the most important influence on Toyota’s Lean Production plan? (18 marks) Lean production is a manufacturing technique used to enhance efficiency and profitability. Its primary focus is speed of output by waste elimination. Waste is anything that does not add value to the end product. Many industries aside from manufacturing are now adopting lean principles. Lean productions consists of techniques such as Just in time (JIT)‚ Critical path analysis (CPA)‚ Kaizen and Time
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SWOTT Analysis: Candy BusinessThis paper examines the internal and external environmental forces and trends to consider when opening a candy business. This paper will look at the legal and regulatory forces of a sole proprietorship and social external trends to consider. The internal forces and trends that will be analysis are strategy‚ structures‚ goals‚ culture‚ and leadership. Legal and regulatoryThis business is going to have a sole proprietorship which means that the candy shop will be owned
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5. Should it be illegal for a pregnant woman to consume alcohol? Consider the legal and health ramifications of your answer. They say one glass of red a wine is good for your health; however is it also healthy for women that are pregnant? Doctors surprisingly agree with the fact that woman can take a moderate amount of alcohol while being pregnant. Their recommendation of moderation is for the expecting mother to only consume 1-2 alcoholic beverages a day. They have done many test studies to
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WHY DOES PLATO COMPARE ORDINARY HUMAN EXISTENCE TO THAT OF CHAINED PRISONERS IN A CAVE? Plato in his famous Allegory of Cave compared the ordinary human existence to that of chained prisoners in a cave. According to Plato‚ we are all stuck in a false reality in this world like prisoners in a cave. His cave theory still applies today in the sense that the people are influenced and controlled by the world around them. They do not want to realize or seek the truth; instead they wish to live
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King Lear is throught the whole play a man who is a sinner and the victim of the evil deeds of those who surround him‚ those he keeps most close mostly are the worst sinners against him. He thinks he does the right good things but has to find out that almost everything he did out of meaning well by the people he considered as the good ones at the time he did it were the wrong moves. When Lear realizes that his moves seem to have been wrong he tells Kent and the Fool during a storm that he is "a
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Discuss the two approaches: Suffragette and Suffragists. Which do you consider the most effective? Women’s suffrage in the United Kingdom was a national movement that began in 1872. Since the 1860s‚ women had been campaigning for the right to vote. Although women had made gains in areas such as education‚ real change could only come through by having a say in parliament. In the course of this movement‚ two parties were formed to fight for the rights of women: the Suffragettes and the Suffragists
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In The Ethics of Belief by W.K Clifford this philosopher states that it is wrong in every situation ever to believe anything based on insufficient evidence‚ as it is wrong for someone to simply believe something to be true based solely on the sincerity of their convictions or by stifling their doubts. He states that if the origin of the belief is not founded on proven fact then the believer is guilty of an untrue/false belief as a result of not taking the time or having the patience to investigate
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Is it important for a manager to consider Equity Theory when striving to improve an employee’s job satisfaction and motivation? Understanding what motivated employees and how they were motivated was the focus of many researchers following the publication of the Hawthorne Study results (Terpstra‚ 1979). Five major approaches that have led to our understanding of motivation are Maslow ’s need-hierarchy theory‚ Herzberg ’s two- factor theory‚ Vroom ’s expectancy theory‚ Adams ’ equity theory‚ and
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Garrett Dewbre Dr. Good English 2343 28 February 2013 Lost in a Dark World: John Milton’s “When I Consider How my Light is Spent” Being blind would be an incredibly hard thing to endure‚ and an even harder situation to describe to other people. In John Milton’s 1652 poem When I Consider How my Light is Spent the author uses imagery‚ symbols‚ and extended metaphors to express his feelings of going blind and how it relates to the serving of his god. In exploring the use of his imagery you
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Boillard – Pay Decisions Case Study 1. What factors should Allen and Smith consider when setting the wage for the purchasing agent position? What resources are available for them to consult when establishing this wage? (include 2 citations from the text) Allen and Smith should consider the internal and external factors when setting the wage for the purchasing agent position. The internal equity refers to the perceived fairness of the pay structure within a firm (Gomez-Mejia‚ Balkin‚ & Cardy‚ 2013
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