Question: After reading the case, formulate an answer on how you would move the scrap steel bars onto the rail car within the allotted time (

After reading the case, formulate an answer on how you would move the scrap steel bars onto the rail car within the allotted time (two weeks) with the assigned workers and without using any additional equipment. As the business manager, you want to profit from selling the scrap metal and, therefore, have to evaluate what you can pay the workers as an incentive to get the work done in the allotted time and also earn a profit. How many pieces must be moved in total (between 5,000 and 15,000) How would you organize the workers to minimize fatigue and time required? Based on your worker organization plan, how many pieces per hour can your workers realistically move? How many hours would you need to complete the project in two weeks? How would you schedule your workers to complete in two weeks? How would you motivate the workers to complete the job on time? How would you ensure the job gets done on time ( control)? What would the total project cost be above the $8 per hour workers are currently paid for 40 hours per week? Include overtime hours and any additional hourly pay, incentives you would pay for getting work done on time, any meals, drinks, or snacks provided, and any other costs. The $8 an hour does not come from your profit, only your extra costs, overtime hours over 40 per week, and other costs such as lunches, dinners, snacks, or bonuses. What would your net profit be after all your additional costs? You are selling the steel for $4,500. International Steel Group ISG STEELTON (International Steel Group, Steelton, Pennsylvania) As the day-shift supervisor at the ISG Steelton steel plant, you summon six college students working for you this summer, doing whatever you need to do (sweeping up, sandblasting the inside of boilers that are down for maintenance, running errands, and so forth). You walk them across the plant to a field where the company stores scrap metal. The area, about the size of a football field, is stacked with organized piles of metal. You explain that everything they see has just been sold. Metal prices, which have been depressed, have finally risen enough to earn a small profit by selling the scrap metal. You point out that railroad tracks divide the field into parallel sectors, like the lines on a football field, so each metal stack is no more than 15 feet from a track. Each stack contains 390 pieces of metal. Each piece weighs 92 pounds and is about a yard long, just over 4 inches high, and 4 inches wide. You tell the students that, working as a team, they pick up each piece, walk up a ramp to a railroad car positione

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