True or False: Production runs can be scheduled in one or two shifts. True False

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True or False: Production runs can be scheduled in one or two shifts. True False True or False: Hiring the Needed Complement will always eliminate a Second Shift. True False True or False: Management should strive to increase Turnover. True False True or False: Increasing Capacity tends to reduce the number of workers on Second Shift. True False True or False: Increasing Training Hours tends to both increase and decrease the Needed Complement. True False are incurred when production runs increase and teams match hiring to Needed Complement. Separation costs Recruiting costs Overtime costs Training costs Assuming the Productivity Index is greater than 100%, adding Overtime will the Productivity Index. Increase Decrease Not change True or False: Worker training is entered by the dollar. True False Teams Recruiting Costs if they wish. can eliminate all of their can eliminate half of their can eliminate all but the $1, 000 base cost per new employee Generally, will be incurred when production levels decrease and/or Automation levels increase. Training costs Recruiting costs Separation costs Overtime costs

Explanation / Answer

Q1. True.

Subject to availability of worker complement, production runs more than the capacity of first shift, are scheduled to the second shift.

Q2. False.

Hiring the needed complement eliminates overtime, second shift is more desirable than overtime, because the workers have higher efficiency and being fixed workers, there's no turnover.

Q3. False

High Turnover is bad for business from stability perspective as well as it incurs the cost of hiring and training employees.

Q4. True

By increasing capacity, larger production runs can be scheduled in the first shift. So the number of workers is reduced in second shfit. Any excess production runs can be scheduled in second shift.

Q5. False

Increasing the training hours only decreases the needed complement, because of increase in the efficiency and providitivity of workers.

Q6. Recruiting costs are incurred when production runs increase and teams match hiring to Needed Complement. This is because additiona Worker Complements are required to match the increased production run.

Q7. If productivity index is at 100%, then adding overtime will decrease the productivity index.

Q8. False

Worker training in entered in hours and not in dollars

Q9. C.

There's a $ 1000 based base cost per recruitment, which cannot be elminated. Recrtuiment spend can be eliminated to 0

Q10. C. Separation costs

Separation costs will be incurred because Needed Complement will decrease with reduction in production levels as well when automation levels increase.

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