Please submit Case $5$ Harwood Medical Instruments here by end of day Sunday

For each case, you will give a brief background on the company, state the problem and your recommendations $($or solutions depending on the case$).$

The case describes a company whose manager is concerned that the operating profit measure included in the company$$s bonus plan was too narrowly focused. He implemented a new bonus plan that reduced the weighting of importance placed on operating profit and that included more measures, including on$-$time deliveries, sales returns, patent applications, scrap and rework costs, and customer satisfaction.

Please answer the following questions for this case:

$1.$ What was the purpose of the change?

$2.$ Calculate the bonus earned by each manager for each $6-$month period and for the year $2010.$

$3.$ Evaluate the new plan. Is there any evidence that it produced the desired effects? What changes to the new plan would you suggest, if any?