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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.
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 crews output
over the past several weeks, obtaining these figures.
1 4 960
2 3 702
3 4 968
4 2 500
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5 3 698
6 2 500
Ans:
1 4 960 240
2 3 702 234
3 4 968 242
4 2 500 250
5 3 698 232
6 2 500 250
(b) Probably even-sized crews are better than odd-sizes and a crew of 2 seems to
work best amongst the others.
3.(a) Compute the multi-factor productivity measure for each of the weeks shown.
(b) What do the productivity figures suggest? Assume 40 hour weeks and an hourly
wage of $12. Overhead is 1.5 times weekly labor cost. Material cost is $ 6 per pound.
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1 30,000 6 450
2 33,600 7 470
3 32,200 7 460
4 35,400 8 480
Ans:
(a)
Overhead
Worker cost Materials Total MFP
Output cost
Week cost cost
(units) 12*40
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(c) Multi-factor productivity dropped steadily from a high of 3.03 to about 2.84
4. A manager checked production records and found out that a worker produced
160 units while working 40 hours. In the previous week, the same worker
produced 138 units while working 36 hours. Compute the workers productivity.
(b) Did his productivity increase, decrease or remain the same? Briefly explain.
(a) Current productivity= produced units as output/ labor hour=160/40=4 unit per
hour
(b)
Growth productivity=4-3.83/3.83=0.044
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