Lupa4eve’s Blog Just another WordPress.com site Skip to content * Home * About ← Hello world! F. W. Taylor’s Scientific Management Theory in Modern Day Workplace Posted on October 23‚ 2010 by lupa4eve Management can have the most remarkable effects on organization; that is why management has become an essential part of organization. According to Griffin (2001) Management may be defined as a set of activities (including planning‚ and decision making‚ organizing‚ leading and controlling)
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- 3 - N05/3/ECONO/HP1/ENG/TZ0/XX/M Paper Specific Markscheme In addition to the assessment criteria use the paper-specific markscheme below. Award up to the maximum marks as indicated. Examiners should be aware that candidates may take a different approach‚ which if appropriate should be fully rewarded. 1. (a) Explain the differences between monopolistic competition and oligopoly as market structures. [10 marks] • large number of firms (m.c) versus a few dominant firms (oligopoly) • differentiated
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Question: Consider the following short-run production function (where L = variable input‚ Q = output): Q = 10L – 0.5L2 Suppose that output can be sold for $10 per unit. Also assume that the firm can obtain as much of the variable input (L) as it needs at $20 per unit. a. b. c. Determine the marginal revenue product function. Determine the marginal factor cost function. Determine the optimal value of L‚ given that the objective is to maximize profits. Question: The Blair Company’s three assembly
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Why Clean Code Code is clean if it can be understood easily – by everyone on the team. With understandability comes readability‚ changeability‚ extensibility and maintainability. All the things needed to keep a project going over a long time without accumulating up a large amount of technical debt. optimal Responsiveness Smells Rigidity The software is difficult to change. A small change causes a cascade of subsequent changes. General Follow Standard Conventions Coding-‚ architecture-‚ design
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Economics 201A: Economic Theory (first half ) Tu-Th 12:30–2:00 150 GSPP 1 Description Economics 201A is the first semester of the required microeconomic theory sequence for first-year Ph.D. students in the economics department. The first half of the fall semester focuses on choice theory‚ consumer theory‚ and social choice. The second half will be taught by Chris Shannon and will cover general equilibrium. (A separate syllabus will be distributed for the second half.) In the spring‚ the
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how did their colonies fare between 1600 and 1750? England Where? • Virginia • Massachusetts Bay • Connecticut • Pennsylvania • New York • Maine • Delaware • New Hampshire • Maryland • Rhode Island • New Jersey • North & South Carolina • Georgia For what purpose? • Separation from the Church of England • Religious freedom • Opportunities to trade American natural resources to other countries • Wealth • Colonization • A new land of new economic opportunities Who? • Explorers • Religious
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Differences Between Keynesian Economics and Classical Economics Economics thinking has evolved over time as economists develop new economic theories to fit the realities of a changing world. Monetary and fiscal policies change over time. And so does our understanding of those policies. Some economists argue that policies that lower the unemployment rate tend to raise the rate of inflation. Others insist that only unexpected inflation can influence real GDP and employment. If the latter economists
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get one. This meant a high demand for slaves. As plantations grew‚ the need for more slaves grew as well. This significantly affected the Atlantic slave trade. WHAT LABOR SYSTEMS DEVELOPED IN THE COLONIAL AMERICAS? The post-1450 economic order affected the social‚ economic‚ and political elites in multiple ways. The merchant class was benefited because trade was growing and they were the majority of the people involved in trading which helped that class. This also helped the upper class gain more
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Learning activity 2 ch 3-U2 1. When do we consider two commodities to be complements or substitutes? It is considered both products and services as a substitute or complementary when the price of goods purchased gets increased to such a level that the consumer purchasing power will be affected less looking for a good price that is similar or lower the purchase quantities where his purchasing power allows. 2. What must be true for a good to be normal and a necessity? To be a normal product
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Argos and Littlewoods Price Fixing Arrangement 1. The oligopolistic features of the toy market are that there are two dominant retailers that dominate the market. There is a significance of advertising‚ such as them trying to dominant the price of their products. Lastly‚ there are no barriers to entry. These two firms have cost advantages due to the expansion of the company. In a perfectly competitive environment Hasbro‚ Argos‚ and Littlewoods wouldn’t have been able to have a price-fixing agreement
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