Plant overhead $122‚000 D/L rate/hour $30 Youngstown has a traditional cost system. It calculates a plant-wide overhead rate by dividing total overhead costs by total direct labor hours. Assume‚ for the calculations below‚ that plant overhead is a committed (fixed) cost during the year‚ but that direct labor is a variable cost. 1. Calculate the plant-wide overhead rate. Use this rate to assign overhead costs to products and calculate the profitability of the four products. The assignment
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outlining the advantages and disadvantages of each. ETHNOCENTRIC POLICY The ethnocentric staffing policy refers to the strategy of a multinational company to employ managers for key positions from the parent headquarters instead of employing local staff. In the ethnocentric approach‚ the cultural values and business practices of the home country are predominant. Headquarters develop a managing and staffing approach and consistently applies it throughout the world. Companies following the ethnocentric
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TANGLEWOOD STORES AND STAFFING STRATEGY Tanglewood has a unique culture that emphasizes “straight talk‚” employee participation‚ and teamwork which helps to differentiate it from most of its major competitors. Following the recent period of rapid expansion and acquisition‚ the company must consolidate its human resources strategy to ensure that this culture is not lost. Recommendations to achieve this goal are as follows. STAFFING RECOMMENDATIONS Acquire or Develop Talent Now that Tanglewood
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STAFFING STRATEGY FOR A NEW PLANT Should the plant manager come from inside the current managerial ranks or be sought from the outside? With HCE’s current situation‚ including the riskiness of the venture‚ initially planned low margins‚ and high start-up costs‚ it would practical to get the plant the manager from inside the current managerial ranks. It will lessen the risk because they will get a person who already is inside the organization and knows the goals of the organization. It is the human
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managers are responsible for staffing operations globally. There are three main ways of staffing internationally. First‚ the company can send people from its home country. These employees are often referred to as expatriates‚ or home-country nationals. Second‚ it can hire host-country nationals‚ natives of the host country‚ to do the managing. Third‚ it can hire third-country nationals‚ natives of a country other than the home country or the host country. Expatriates cost companies‚ on average‚ $1
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Case one: Tanglewood Stores and Staffing Strategy Staffing Levels I. Acquire or Develop Talent Over seeing the information presented in the case Tanglewood should develop their talent in house‚ due to Tanglewoods strong culture and values that strive for employee participation. This would pull the workforce closer together and portray the family workforce image. Furthermore‚ it is beneficial if employees see the opportunity for advancement. It will strengthen the employee work ethics and
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Cost reduction Generally defined as the act of cutting costs to improve profitability. Cost reduction‚ should therefore‚ not be confused with cost saving and cost control. Cost saving could be a temporary affair and may be at the cost of quality. Cost reduction implies the retention of essential characteristics and quality of the product and thus it must be confined to permanent and genuine savings in the costs of manufacture‚ administration‚ distribution and selling‚ brought about by elimination
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Staffing levels in a fire department can determine the successful or unsuccessful outcome of an incident. As per Fire Engineering‚ “Over the past three decades‚ fire department response has expanded to include emergency medical services‚ terrorism response‚ hazardous materials response and mitigation‚ natural disaster response‚ specialized rescue‚ and responses to other community needs” (Wilson 89-90). In addition‚ “Minimum staffing has become one of the most controversial subjects in the history
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Staffing‚ Recruiting‚ and Outsourcing Clayton Clayton Staffing Solutions can deliver temporary mortgage recruiting solutions for lenders‚ servicers‚ investors‚ and issuers—of any size. We work with mortgage professionals across the entire range of the loan life cycle. Over the past several years‚ the mortgage industry has been in a constant state of influx. Sometimes it’s expanding‚ racing along at a phenomenal rate; other times it’s shrinking‚ slowing down to the pace of a crawl. This fluctuation
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Ronald Coase noted‚“The cost of doing anything consists of the receipts that could have been obtained if that particular decision had not been taken.” For example‚ the opportunity set for this Friday night includes the movies‚ a concert‚ staying home and studying‚ staying home and watching television‚ inviting friends over‚ and so forth. The opportunity cost of taking job A included the forgone salary of $102‚000 plus the $5‚000 of intangibles from job B. Opportunity cost is the sacrifice of
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