MGMT 405 Operations and Production Management Answer set 2 (Reference chapter 2 – William J. Stevenson-2007‚ ninth edition) Problems and Solutions 1. Suppose that a company produced 300 standard bookcases last week using eight workers and produced 240 standard bookcases this week using six workers. In which was productivity higher? Explain. Ans: Productivitylast week = standard bookcases produced as output / labor= 300/8= 37.8 sbc/worker Productivity this week = standard bookcases produced
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supermarket and by whatever things we want‚ not depending on season or time. That this is only possible‚ because food production has adjusted to the customer’s desires is often forgotten. Food is produced cheaper and cheaper‚ so that people can buy as many things they want and also as variable they want. For us this appears to be an advantage but we have to think about the other side. The production is often really harming our environment with the amounts of greenhouse gas emissions or the way animals are
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companies. Use of these marks is not intended to imply endorsement‚ sponsorship‚ or affiliation. Edited in accordance with University of Phoenix® editorial standards and practices. Course Syllabus Course Title:|PHL 251 – Critical Thinking| Course Schedule:|07/11/2004 - 08/08/2004| Course Location/Times/Newsgroup:|University of Phoenix - Milwaukee Campus20075 Watertower Blvd . Brookfield‚ WI ‚ 53045| Required Text:|All materials can be found on resource‚ which can be accessed through the University
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by private individuals. Usually‚ we have organizations within the economy where one is profit oriented and its main business objective is to make profit from the revenue it tends to make by the end of a certain period‚ therefore‚ nothing from the extra money made will be used to develop the business‚ instead‚ the profit will go to the owner of the business‚ adding to that the owner can be giving some of the profit to its employees as a way of motivation according to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs which
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Accepted 5 February 2011) This study was aimed at the large scale production and application of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) biopesticide in Bangladesh agriculture from locally available cheap raw materials. B. thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki HD-73 (reference strain) and two other indigenous isolates of B. thuringiensis namely Bt-Soil-47 and Bt-Insect-1i demonstrated satisfactory growth of sporulation and endotoxin production in a medium prepared from de-fatted mustard-seed meal (oil cake) as
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of timber production is more considerable and alternative systems to clear-felling (large areas of woodland cut down at the same time) are used. Coppicing (management based on regeneration by regrowth from the cut stumps) can be used for some hardwood species‚ such as willow‚ hazel and ash‚ and causes least disruption on the forest ecosystem. set aside’ land schemes’ This scheme is set to encourage land owners / farmers to allow areas of land previously used for food production to return
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on a course. Everyone has an opinion‚ and there is a lot of debate about where each activity should fit. Often‚ of course‚ there are many places to put some activities‚ so we may decide to classify only dominant types of processing. In each case ask what is being processed (material‚ information‚ customers) and how is it being transformed to give value-added. The downside of this approach is the time it will take: allow at least half an hour for about 20 activities filled in. 3. Which of these micro
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African Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 7 (20)‚ pp. 3749-3752‚ 20 October‚ 2008 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJB ISSN 1684–5315 © 2008 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper Ethanol production potential of local yeast strains isolated from ripe banana peels A. A. Brooks Department of Microbiology‚ University of Calabar‚ P.M.B. 1115‚ Calabar‚ Nigeria. E-mail: brooks.akan@yahoo.com. Tel: 08037956762. Accepted 16 May‚ 2008 The ability of different yeast strains
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In production concept marketers believe that customers will favor products that are available and in expensive‚ while Product concept makes marketers believe that the customers will favor products with most quality‚ features and performance. Under production concept‚ product gets cheap but under product concept‚ product usually gets expensive. Both of these concepts can lead to marketing myopia‚ but still useful in some situations. Products like ‘sun chips’ can follow the production concept‚ because
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involved the pretreatment of milk follow by the homogenization‚ heat treatment‚ cooling to incubation temperature‚ inoculation with starter‚ fermentation ‚ cooling‚ post fermentation treatment‚ chilling and lastly packaging for commercial yogurt production. In this experiment‚ the making of yoghurt followed the batch process. The 1000ml of UHT milk is mixed with some milk powder to increase the content of milk solid non fat in the milk in order to improve the texture with the help of protein functionality
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