Author Question: Soccer shoes that the plant can make is 250. Monthly Product Running Soccer Capacity (Hours) ... (Read 131 times)

vicotolentino · **on:** Jul 6, 2018

soccer shoes that the plant can make is 250.

Monthly Product
Running Soccer Capacity (Hours)
Design 5 3 750
Manufacture 1.5 1.5 400
Profit per unit 20 16
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Question 2

Refer to Additional Case 1.1. Which of the following would most likely improve employee work habits at Caplin?

Additional Case 1.1
Managers at Caplin Company are having a strategic planning session with the director of HR. They are discussing the fit between the company's overall management philosophy, organizational structure, organizational culture, and the firm's current HR strategies. During the meeting, the management team asks the HR Director for a profile of the current workforce. The HR Director reports that the workforce used to be 85 white, 50 male. Now it is 50 white, 50 minority with twice as many women as men. Supervisors still tend to be white males.

The management team discusses how to control costs, improve quality, and create distinctive capabilities. Several ideas are raised, discussed, and tabled; some topics are assigned to an individual for further exploration. Managers comment that some workers arrive at start time, take 30 minutes before initiating any work, and begin to pack up for the day 30 minutes before quitting time. Managers also indicate that employees do not seem concerned about working hard or about building quality products.

As the meeting draws to a close, the team briefly discusses the firm's commitment to the surrounding community. As a cost-cutting measure, the firm eliminated its support of an adult literacy program last year. Company facilities were used for conducting reading classes. The management team decides that the firm should reinstate the program and appoints the HR Director to notify the local literacy council.

A) Offering telecommuting opportunities to all employees
B) Making adjustments to the firm's organizational culture
C) Outsourcing most clerical jobs to overseas firms
D) Implementing a focus strategy

elizabethrperez · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 6, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Answer: TRUE
Explanation: The maximum number of soccer shoes that can be made is found by dividing the maximum number of hours that can be spent in design by the number of design hours that it takes for each design, or 750 3 = 250.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: B