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Operations Management First Quiz Answer all questions below. Each Roman Numeral question (I, II, III) counts tnhirty-three points. Explain three important differences managers should be aware of when managing a company that primarily produces services to customers compared to another company that primarily produces manufactured items. (Your answer should be at least one paragraph long and not longer than three paragraphs). The manager of a crew that installs wood floors has tracked the crews output over the past several weeks. Each worker works 40 hours per week, and earns 15 per hour. The wholesale cost of lumber to the company is 9 per square foot, and the company charges its customers 20 per square foot of flooring installed. Week Crew Size Lumber Used (sq. ft) Flooring Installed (sq ft) 1 4 480 420 2 3 371 325 3 2 250 238 a. Calculate labor productivity for each of the weeks. What can you infer about the relationship between crew size and productivity b. Suppose that in addition to labor cost and wholesale lumber cost, the firms overhead is 100 of its labor cost. Calculate multifactor productivity for each of the weeks shown. Explain why measuring productivity is important for either (or both) a business and a non-profit institution (such as a government agency). Y, dXiJ(x( I_TS 1EZBmU/xYy5g/GMGeD3Vqq8K)fw9 xrxwrTZaGy8IjbRcXI u3KGnD1NIBs RuKV.ELM2fi V vlu8zH (W uV4(Tn 7_m-UBww_8(/0hFL)7iAs),Qg20ppf DU4p MDBJlC5 2FhsFYn3E69 45Z5k8Fmw- dznZ xJZp /P,)KQk5qpN8KGbe Sd17 paSR 6Q
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