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Essay Instructions: Productivity Improvements





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Besides making decisions about which piece of equipment to buy or which process to use, productivity is also analyzed in terms of Productivity Measure or ratio of Outputs / Inputs. For example, for the EBBD, one productivity measure that could be used is Shipment productivity. The outputs to consider are the number of items that are shipped during a week, and the inputs would be the number of hours worked by the shipping crew during that same week. So the Shipment productivity would be: Items Shipped / Hours Worked. Instead of items shipped, you could use the number of pounds shipped as the output.
1.Consider Shipment productivity. Think of one way that you could improve shipment productivity and explain.
2.Think of one other Productivity Measure you might use at the EBBD and explain how you would calculate it. And then how would use it to improve productivity?

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Essay Instructions: I need a term paper about "Productivity in the workplace". It should discuss issues that hinder employee productivity in office and manufacturing work environments and then discuss remedies to the productivity problems. The paper needs to be 7 pages in length and have at least 5 sources. I also need a bibliography page. The paper should be in MLA format. I have a few resources that I will fax to you.
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Essay Instructions: 1. Productivity

After two quarters of increasing levels of production, the CEO of Canadian Fabrication & Design was upset to learn that, during this time of expansion, productivity of the newly hired sheet metal workers declined with each new worker hired. Believing that the new workers were either lazy or inefficiently supervised (or possibly both), the CEO instructed the shop foreman to "crack down" on the new workers to bring their productivity levels up.
o Explain carefully in terms of production theory why it might be that no amount of "cracking down" can increase worker productivity at CF&D.
o Provide an alternative to cracking down as a means of increasing the productivity of the sheet metal workers. Fully explain your alternative in terms of production theory.


2. Master Card

Master Card had a series of cute commercials that list a series of accounting items and costs leading to a priceless product. Cell phones are often advertised as being free. In economics, it is said that nothing of value is either free or priceless, everything has a price. Take something from your experience, that is allegedly free or priceless and use the concepts of accounting costs, economic costs, explicit costs, implicit costs, opportunity costs and sunk costs to explain why it is neither priceless nor free.

Essay Instructions: List, define, and provide an example of the schedule(s) of reinforcement a manager can use to improve productivity.