Question: 17. Consider the following management decision problem: you have 4 employees A,B,C, and D that must be reassigned to new jobs J1, J2, J3, and

17. Consider the following management decision problem: you have 4 employees A,B,C, and D that must be reassigned to new jobs J1, J2, J3, and J4 (which they can all "sort of" do, with different training and quality costs) - and you must decide which employee should do which job (i.e., you need to make an assignment which has the least total cost for the company). Below is the cost matrix showing what the costs would be for assigning each employee to one of the jobs. You want to minimize the total cost for an assignment of the employees each to one job, i.e., to minimize i (cost for ith Employee to do job J(i) ) where (i) is the label of the job that ith employee is assigned to.

J1

J2

J3

J4

A

64

59

62

69

B

58

77

58

58

C

79

64

74

70

D

67

60

63

70

A should do

B should do

C should do

D should do

Total cost of the optimal decision =

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