Treetop Forest Products Ltd is a sawmill operation in British Columbia‚ Canada‚ that is owned by a major forest products company but operates independently of headquarters. It was built thirty years ago and was completely updated with new machinery five years ago. Treetop receives raw logs from the area for cutting and planing into building-grade timber‚ mostly 2-by-4 and 2-by-6 pieces of standard lengths. Higher grade logs leave Treetop’s sawmill department in finished form and are sent directly
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Statement of the problem The packaging team at Treetop Forest is experiencing many problems. Their productivity is decreasing and affecting the rest of the departments negatively. The unsupervised employees are slacking off‚ are not motivated and are adopting norms that are not fitted with the company. Inventory costs and the risk of damaged stocks are also increasing. The quality of the appearance of the finished products is also decreasing‚ resulting in a loss in the market share in the industry
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TREETOP FOREST PRODUCTS Treetop Forest Products Inc. is a sawmill operation in Oregon that is owned by a major forest products company but operates independently of headquarters. It was built 30 years ago and completely updated with new machinery 5 years ago. Treetop receives raw logs from the area for cutting a:q.d planing into building-grade lumber‚ mostly 2by-4 and 2-by-6 pieces of standard lengths. Higher grade logs leave Treetop’s sawmill department in finished form and are sent directly to
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Treetop Forest Products Treetop Forest Products is experiencing several key problems within the packaging department. Packaging productivity has been in a decline over the past two years and effecting the rest of the departments negatively‚ all other departments are up significantly but unable to reach their total potential due to backups and quality issues in packaging. The employees are minimally supervised to times of a total lack of supervision‚ this is resulting in poor work performance
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Explicit norms are rules that are clearly stated. Implicit norms are hard for people with difficulty with socially-based learning. Roles within groups are different tasks that different people perform and the specific accomplishments each is expected to attain (Baron‚ Branscombe & Byrne‚ 2009‚ p. 384). An example of an explicit role is a professor for a class. The students in the class play the explicit role in the course. The professor’s role is to guide and nurture their students. An implicit role
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Instructions: Treetop Forest Products Ltd is a sawmill operation in Oregon‚ USA‚ that is owned by major forest products company but operates independently of headquarters. It was built thirty years ago and was completely updated with new machinery five years ago. Treetop has one general manager‚ sixteen supervisors and support staff‚ and 180 unionised employees. The mill is divided into six operating departments: boom‚ sawmill‚ planer‚ packaging‚ shipping and maintenance. And packaging department is
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they should wear and what they should bring to the barbeque. In response the Australian who invited them says ‘Wear what you want‚ and bring something to drink‚ and some meat‚ it’s a barbeque‚ it’s very laid back’. So the student dresses in a kilt (no underpants)‚ brings a bottle of whisky‚ and a freshly skinned cow haunch. The Australians are surprised and can’t understand why the Scottish student has dressed like he has and brought what he did. An understanding by both parties of group norms
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FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS Package design must meet five groups of functional criteria: in-home‚ in-store (or warehouse)‚ production‚ distribution and safety‚ and legal. In-home requirements usually dictate that packaging be easy to use and store‚ remind users when and what to repurchase‚ reinforce consumers’ expectations of the product‚ and tell them how to safely and effectively use the product. In addition‚ increasing numbers of consumers expect packaging to be recyclable and environmentally sensitive.
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INtroduction Packaging is now generally regarded as an essential component of our modern life style and the way business is organized. Packaging is the enclosing of a physical object‚ typically a product that will be offered for sale. It is the process of preparing items of equipment for transportation and storage and which embraces preservation‚ identification and packaging of products. Packing is recognized as an integral part of modern marketing operation‚ which embraces all phases of activities
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Product packaging plays an important role in the marketing mix Packaging plays an important role as a medium in the marketing mix‚ in promotion campaigns‚ as a pricing criterion‚ in defining the character of new products‚ as a setter of trends and as an instrument to create brand identity and shelf impact in all product groups. The findings of many other research projects are supplemented by the survey carried out by IRI (Information Resources Inc.)‚ which provides information about this subject
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