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MGMT 405
Answer set 2
Week
Crew size
Yards Installed
960
702
968
500
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698
500
Ans:
(a) Productivity= Yards of carpet installed/ crew size=960/4= 240 yards/number of
crew.
Week
Crew size
Yards Installed
Labor productivity
960
240
702
234
968
242
500
250
698
232
500
250
(b) Probably even-sized crews are better than odd-sizes and a crew of 2 seems to
work best amongst the others.
2. (a) Compute the multi-factor productivity measure for each of the weeks
shown. (b) What do the productivity figures suggest? Assume 40 hour weeks
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and an hourly wage of $12. Overhead is 1.5 times weekly labor cost. Material
cost is $ 6 per pound.
Week
Output (units)
Workers
Materials (lbs)
30,000
450
33,600
470
32,200
460
35,400
480
Ans:
(a)
Worker cost
Week
Output
Overhead
cost
Materials
Total
cost
cost
MFP
(units)
12*40
30,000
2880
4320
2700
9900
3.03
33,600
3360
5040
2820
11220
2.99
32,200
3360
5040
2760
11160
2.89
35,400
3840
5740
2880
12480
2.84
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=30000/9900= 3.03
Growth productivity=4-3.83/3.83=0.044
Thus there was an increase of 4.4 % in productivity.
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Answer set 2
Q1: Long Beach Bank employs three loan officers, each working eight hours per day. Each officer
processes an
average of five loans per day. The banks payroll cost for the officers is $820 per day, and there is a daily
overhead expense of $500.
a. Compute the labor productivity.
b. Compute the multifactor productivity, using loans per dollar cost as the measure.
The bank is considering the purchase of new computer software for the loan operation. The software will
enable each loan officer to process eight loans per day, although the overhead expense will increase to
$550.
c. Compute the new labor productivity.
d. Compute the new multifactor productivity.
e. Should the bank proceed with the purchase of the new software? Explain.
Solution
a. Labor productivity is simply the ratio of loans to labor-hours:
output (loans)
input (labor-hrs.) =
3 officers 5 loans/day
3 officers 8 hrs./day = 0.625 loans/labor-hr.
b. Multifactor productivity accounts for both labor cost and overhead:
output (loans)
input (labor cost + overhead) =
3 officers 5 loans/day
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