Question 1

Calculate the change in labor productivity if the bakery increased production from 300 loaves to 380 loaves on Friday.On all days,three employees work eight hours at a rate of $8 per hour each.How can this be explained?

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Question 2

Mr.Tubbs wants to determine the capital productivity of his manufacturing firm.He produced 750,000 units last year and had $500,000 invested.

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Question 3

Discuss the importance of interchangeable parts for P/OM.

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Question 4

Define and discuss productivity.

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Question 5

Define and discuss multifactor productivity.

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Question 6

How can you register (or show) productivity improvements without actually achieving the growth through internal improvements.

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Question 7

Bruce Whitten's company manufactures Bruce's Delight Catfood.His small company grossed $35,000 on its exclusive line of food.Labor costs to manufacture his three gravy variety flavors was $16,350 for the year,using part-time employees only.What was his labor productivity for the year?

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Question 8

Discuss the elasticity-productivity tie between operations management and marketing.

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Question 9

Ms.Compton's manufacturing plant wants to examine her productivity for last year in several ways.The cost for all her product outputs was $325,000.Her total inputs for resources expended were $199,000.She manufactured a total of 500,000 products and invested capital of $150,000.What is her multifactor productivity? What is her capital productivity?

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Question 10

Discuss P/OM prior to the Industrial Revolution.

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Question 11

Calculate daily labor productivity for a local bakery if 300 loaves of bread are baked and three employees work eight hours at a rate of $8 per hour each.

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Question 12

What is lean production? Who is credited with its invention?

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Question 13

How is flexibility related to productivity?

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Question 14

How can bureaucracy be seen as a stabilizing force in organizations?

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Question 15

Discuss some of the various hypothesis proposed to explain the inability to sustain stable productivity growth in a turbulent era of new technological developments by nations.

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Quiz 2: Productivity and Strategic Planning