businesses are transforming labor into a more flexible (and variable) cost. Among such companies are Hewlett-Packard‚ General Electric‚ DuPont‚ Sun Microsystems‚ and British Airways. Discuss whether direct labor is a fixed or a variable cost. What are the pros and cons of management treating direct labor as a variable cost? Are there ethical issues to be considered here? Direct labor can be classified as a fixed cost or a variable cost‚ depending on how flexible the employer needs to be/can
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4. Risk of moderator variables during assessment A moderator variable is a variable that may affect the relationship between two other variables. As such‚ predictors and criteria for some candidates who have a particular score on the moderator variable could display different relationships than the predictors and criteria of other candidates‚ who have an alternative score on the moderator variable. Examples of moderator variables could include gender‚ age‚ length of service‚ and nationality (Spector
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Project Specifications Project Title: Variable Pitch Constant Rotational Speed Wind Turbine Project Aims This project can be divided into 3 three parts. The first part is to develop a variable pitch propeller. Then second and the main aim of this project is to design a control mechanism by which the propellers would rotate at a constant speed‚ at varying wind speeds by adjusting their pitch. This would be achieved by using wind sensors (anemometer) and a microcontroller. The sensors would
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STA1101 Normal Distribution and Continuous random variables CONTINUOUS RANDOM VARIABLES A random variable whose values are not countable is called a _CONTINUOUS RANDOM VARIABLE._ THE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION The _NORMAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION_ is given by a bell-shaped(symmetric) curve. THE STANDARD NORMAL DISTRIBUTION The normal distribution with and is called the _STANDARD NORMAL DISTRIBUTION._ Example 1: Find the area under the standard normal curve between z = 0 and z = 1.95 from z
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fixed costs into variable costs When you outsource you only pay for the products that you use. Instead of have fixed cost of stuff that aren’t being used to produce anything but still require you to produce them in order to be ready for your production process. Example when Ford own a steel mil it had the fix cost of the steel mil now that they don’t produce steel the they have the variable cost of buy steel when they need it. Need a little more about what are fixed vs. variable costs E. Commercially
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The Effect of Starch on the Activity of Amylase with pH Variable Lab Report‚ Fall 2011 East Tennessee State University Department of Biological Sciences By: Shelby Brackett Date Performed: October 10‚ 2011 Lab Instructor: Joseph Kusi Biology 1111‚ Section 018 Abstract Enzymes are very important in chemical reactions. They are used to speed up the reaction taking place. They act by binding to a specific substrate and form an enzyme-substrate complex that may put stress on chemical bonds
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KATHLEEN JOY L. BALLESTA BSBA-MM3 1. what are the international marketing variable ( controllable and uncontrollable ) that affect coke ? Much was said in the first chapter about the necessity to take into account the global "environmental" factors. These factors are those so called "uncontrollables"‚ unlike the "controllable" factors of price‚ promotion‚ place and product. They include market tastes‚ economic‚ socio cultural‚ legal‚ technological‚ competitive and political factors to
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Chapter - Section | Problem(s) | 5 – 2 | 10‚ 14 | 5 – 3 | 12‚ 32 | 5 – 4 | 18 | 5-2 #10‚14 10. Eye Color Groups of five babies are randomly selected. In each group‚ the random variable x is the number of babies with green eyes (based on data from a study by Dr. Sorita Soni at Indiana University). (The symbol 0+ denotes a positive probability value that is very small). X | P(x) | 0 | .528 | 1 | .360 | 2 | .098 | 3 | .013 | 4 | .001 | 5 | 0+ | P(x) = .528 + .360 + .098 + .013
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Variables Affecting Urine Output and Solute Concentration BIOL 204 505 Anatomy and Physiology II Author: Lab Partners: November 29‚ 2013 Purpose Three experiments were performed to determine the effect on Specific Gravity‚ NaCl Concentrations and Urine Output with the variables consisting of consuming water‚ salty chips‚ sports drink‚ diet and regular soda‚ and a control group which consumed nothing. Results Baseline Values and Chemstick Analysis Observation/Test Normal
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particular parameters of the situation”. Similarly‚ Samson and Daft (2003‚ p. 62) call contingency theory a perspective “…in which the successful resolution of organizational problems is thought to depend upon managers’ identification of key variables in the situation at hand”. Like systems theorists‚ contingency theorists adopt an integrative approach to management theory (Luthans‚
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