Mgmt 405

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MGMT 405 Operations and Production Management

Answer set 2

(Reference chapter 2 – William J. Stevenson-2007, ninth edition)

Problems and Solutions

1. Suppose that a company produced 300 standard bookcases last week using eight workers and produced 240 standard bookcases this week using six workers. In which was productivity higher? Explain.

Ans: Productivitylast week = standard bookcases produced as output / labor= 300/8= 37.8 sbc/worker

Productivity this week = standard bookcases produced as output / labor= 240/6= 40 sbc/worker

The ouput of this week shows that it has higher productivity than last week. This answer can be improved.

2. The manager of a crew that installs carpeting has tracked the crew’s output over the past several weeks, obtaining these figures.

|Week |Crew size |Yards Installed |

|1 |4 |960 |

|2 |3 |702 |

|3 |4 |968 |

|4 |2 |500 |

|5 |3 |698 |

|6 |2 |500 |

a) Compute the labor productivity for each of the weeks.

b) On the basis of your calculation, what can you conclude about crew size and productivity?

Ans:

a) Productivity= Yards of carpet installed/ crew size=960/4=...