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Understanding Business 13th Edition William Nickels, Jim McHugh, Susan McHugh - Solutions
Outline the six steps in selecting employees.
Describe methods that companies use to recruit new employees, and explain some of the issues that make recruitment challenging.
Summarize the five steps in human resource planning.
Illustrate the effects of legislation on human resource management.
Explain the importance of human resource management, and describe current issues in managing human resources.
Why is it important to apply quality-control processes throughout production rather than evaluate products only at the end of the production cycle?
Why hasjust-in-time inventory control become a dominant production process used in the automobile industry? Can you name other industries where it would be effective?
Looking at the future of manufacturing in the United States, do you think U.S. companies are adapting to the challenges of global manufacturing?
Think of any production facility at your school, such as a sandwich shop, library, or copy center, and redesign the layout (make a pencil sketch) to more effectively serve customers (students) and allow employees to be more effective and efficient.
Discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages of producing goods overseas using inexpensive labor. Summarize the moral aspects, health risks, and ethical dimensions of this practice.
What location factors might go into the selection of a manufacturing site for McDonald’s McNuggets?
Does Tyson use process manufacturing or the assembly process? Is the production of McDonald’s McNuggets an intermittent or continuous production process? Justify your answers.
Is there any relationship between a PERT chart and a Gantt chart?
What quality standards do firms use in the United States?
What is Six Sigma quality, SQC, and SPC?
What is just-in-time (JIT) inventory control?
What relationship do materials requirement planning (MRP) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) have with the production process?
How do managers evaluate different sites?
What is facility location and how does it differ from facility layout?
What is 3D printing and what is it used for?
How do robotics help make manufacturers more competitive?
How do CAD/CAM systems work?
What is process manufacturing, and how does it differ from assembly processes?
What kind of firms use operations managers?
What is production management?
What have U.S. manufacturers done to achieve increased output?
What is the current state of manufacturing in the United States?
Draw a PERT chart for making a breakfast of three-minute eggs, buttered toast, and coffee. Define critical path.
What are Six Sigma quality, the Baldrige Award, ISO 9001, and ISO 14001?
What is just-in-time inventory control?
How does operations management differ between the manufacturing and service sectors?
What must American companies do to remain competitive?
How has manufacturing changed in the United States over the last few decades?
Explain the use of PERT and Gantt charts to control manufacturing processes.
Describe operations management planning issues including facility location, facility layout, materials requirement planning, purchasing, justin-time inventory control, and quality control.
Identify various production processes, and describe techniques that improve productivity, including computer-aided design and manufacturing, flexible manufacturing, lean manufacturing, mass customization, robotics, and 3D printing.
Describe the evolution from production to operations management.
Describe the current state of U.S. manufacturing and what manufacturers have done to become more competitive.
Do you think the corporate culture at Freshii is somewhat resistant to change or accepting of change? Why?
Is the decision making at Freshii centralized or decentralized? What does that mean for the company’s operations?
Organizations like Freshii follow some of the principles of Henri Fayol, such as the esprit de corps. What is esprit de corps and how is it developed at Freshii?
A growing number of work groups, including management, are cross-functional and self-managed. To practice working in such an organization, break into groups of five or so students, preferably with different backgrounds and interests. Each group must work together to prepare a report on the
Divide the class into teams of five. Each team should imagine your firm, a producer of athletic shoes, has been asked to join a virtual network. How might you minimize the potential problems of joining? Begin by defining a virtual corporation and listing its advantages and disadvantages. Each team
Imagine you are working for Kitchen Magic, an appliance manufacturer that produces dishwashers. A competitor introduces a new dishwasher that uses sound waves not only to clean even the worst burned-on food but also to sterilize dishes and silverware. You need to develop a similar offering fast, or
Describe some informal groups within an organization with which you are familiar at school or work. What have you noticed about how those groups help or hinder progress in the organization?
There is no better way to understand the effects of having many layers of management on communication accuracy than the game of Message Relay. Choose seven or more members of the class and have them leave the classroom. Then choose one person to read the following paragraph and another student to
Each manager/supervisor oversees multiple workers. For simplicity, include only three workers under each manager/supervisor on your chart.
The marketing director oversees four marketing managers, the production manager directs three frontline managers, and the CFO directs three supervisors.
Marketing director, production director, and chief financial officer (CFO) who report directly to the CEO.
CEO who is in charge of the entire company.
What organizational changes might you recommend to the auto companies? The airline industry? Technology firms? Fast-food restaurants?
What problems seem to emerge when an organization gets larger?
Were promotions based strictly on qualifications, as Weber suggested? What other factors may have been considered?
Were you assigned specific tasks or left on your own to decide what to do?
Did you find a division of labor necessary and helpful?
What is the difference between the formal and informal organization of a firm?
What are the major concepts involved in interfirm communications?
What are the key alternatives to the major organizational models?
What are the two major organizational models?
What are the latest trends in structuring?
What are the four major choices in structuring organizations?
What principles did Weber add?
What were Fayol’s basic principles?
What is happening today to American businesses?
What are the principles of organizational management?
Why do organizations outsource functions?
What is an inverted organization?
What is the main difference between a matrix-style organization’s structure and the use of cross-functional teams?
What management principle does a matrix-style organization challenge?
What is the difference between line and staff personnel?
What are the various ways a firm can departmentalize?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of departmentalization?
What are some reasons for having a narrow span of control in an organization?
Why are organizations becoming flatter?
What did Weber add to the principles of Fayol?
What are the principles of management outlined by Fayol?
What do the terms division of labor and job specialization mean?
Explain how organizational culture can help businesses adapt to change.
Identify the benefits of interfirm cooperation and coordination.
Contrast the various organizational models.
Evaluate the choices managers make in structuring organizations.
Compare the organizational theories of Fayol and Weber.
Outline the basic principles of organizational management.
What important questions should you ask before becoming a franchisee in a company like Domino’s?
Why do franchises like Domino’s have a lower business failure rate than businesses started from scratch?
What is the role of a cooperative?
What is the major challenge to global franchises?
What are the benefits and drawbacks of being a franchisee?
What is a franchisee?
What are leveraged buyouts, and what does it mean to take a company private?
What is a merger?
What are the advantages of limited liability companies?
What are the advantages of S corporations?
Why do people incorporate?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of corporations?
What is the definition of a corporation?
What is a master limited partnership?
What does unlimited liability mean?
What are the main differences between general and limited partners?
What are the three key elements of a general partnership?
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