Explain how the law of diminishing returns and returns to scale affect a firm’s cost of production (20 Marks) The law of diminishing returns exist when increasing quantities of a variable input are combined with a fixed input‚ which eventually leads to the marginal product and the average product of that variable input will decline. Diminishing returns can affect a firms cost of production negatively in the short run. An example of this is that a business had 2 factors of production; Capital‚ which
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Running head: NAME OF CASE Name of Case Study Student Name Kaplan University MT203: Human Resources Management Instructor Name Month Date‚ Year Name of Case Introduction This is generally one paragraph. The easiest way to explain this section is to think of it like a brief overview of the topics you will be discussing in your paper. The introductory paragraph is designed to set up the rest of the paper by offering your reader a glimpse of what is to come. The goal here is to grab
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LAST NAME: _________________________ FIRST NAME___________________________ PUID________________________________Section________ Purdue University Krannert School of Management MGMT 201 – Managerial Accounting I Summer 2014 Practice Final Exam--SOLUTION This exam consists of 30 multiple choice questions on 10 pages (including this cover page) for a total of 120 points. Answer all questions. No partial credit is available for multiple choice questions. Be sure to put your answers to the
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SUGGESTIONS TO REDUCE ABSENTEEISM 1. Provide Incentives: Giving workers incentives for reduced absenteeism is not the same as rewarding or giving workers bonuses for reduced absenteeism. An incentive provides an employee with a boost to their motivation to avoid unnecessary absenteeism. The general rule of thumb is to reward workers more frequently the younger they are and the more difficult the work is to perform. 2. Non Monetary Awards: A notice board could be put up at the shop floor displaying
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Describe how groups can influence people in positive and negative ways The way that groups can influence people in positive and negative ways varies due to different factors. The factors include individual involved‚ situation and group that the person is involved with. Group pressure plays a big role in influence and can often cause someone to do something that they wouldn’t normally do. I will discuss the positive and negative influences and different roles within this essay. Roles and groups
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selecting strategies that yield a long-term competitive advantage. 2. Depreciation is an allocation of a sunk cost. This cost is a past cost and will never differ across alternatives. 3. The salary of the supervisor of an assembly line with excess capacity is an example of an irrelevant future cost for an accept-or-reject decision. 4. Past costs can be used to help predict future costs. 5. Yes. Suppose‚ for example‚ that sufficient materials are on hand for producing a part for two years.
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Chapter 2. Child Labor Laws and Enforcement The Report on the Youth Labor Force was revised in November 2000. Introduction This chapter looks briefly at the history of child labor in the United States‚ and discusses how that history influences youth employment today. It then examines the current Federal child labor provisions‚ provides a comparison of State child labor laws‚ and discusses other government programs that directly affect the employment of young workers. The chapter concludes with
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SHIFT OF US MARITIME PRIORITIES FROM ATLANTIC TO ASIA PACIFIC REGION 1. Introduction. This “Strategic Shift” essay predicts important changes in United States defence planning during 2012 and early 2013. Through a series of strategic and operational exercises made by United States Navy in the region that placed greater emphasis on the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions‚ the plan is to shift bulk of its naval assets to Asia within the next decade and increase the number of military exercises
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Does getting paid $15 an hour sound good? How about getting paid that much for flipping a burger? The Government has been talking about increasing minimum wage. It has been an increasingly controversial topic in recent years. Minimum is the lowest legal hourly wage a worker can get paid. That being said‚ waiters are paid significantly less because the government believes that their tips will make up the difference. However most of the time it doesn’t make up the difference. Minimum wage is paid to
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Analysis Essay The effects of globalization shown in How Soccer Explains The World‚ is like the response from the Industrial Revolution. Globalization is best defined as the interaction and assimilation between people‚ corporations‚ and governments. The process of globalization began when the first humans took their ideas‚ customs‚ and products out of Africa and into different parts of the world. As globalization occurs‚ there are many different effects that are both positive and negative.
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