Chapter 2: History of Management Total Questions: 149 (36 True/False; 100 Multiple Choice with 2 Scenarios; 9 Short Answer; 4 Essay) TRUE/FALSE 1. Management ideas and practices have actually been used from the earliest times of recorded history. ANS: T PTS: 1 TOP: AACSB Reflective Thinking DIF: Easy KEY: Creation of Value 2. For most of humankind’s history‚ people have commuted to work. ANS: F For most of history‚ people have worked in or near their homes and have not commuted. PTS: 1 DIF: Easy
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UPS and HP: Value Creation through Supply Chain Partnerships Executive Summary United Parcel Service (UPS) and Hewlett Packard (HP)‚ both global leaders in their industries‚ strategically aligned themselves to capitalize on their ability to competitively provide superior services to their customers. UPS‚ a global distribution company and HP an information technology firm signed a contract solidifying a three year partnership in the early
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Honesty Testing Case Dressler‚ G. (2008) Honesty Testing at Carter Cleaning Company Jennifer Carter‚ president of the Carter Cleaning Centers‚ and her father have what the latter describes as an easy but hard job when it comes to screening job applicants. It is easy because for two important jobs – the people who actually do the pressing and those who do the cleaning-spotting – the applicants are easily screened with about 20 minutes of on-the-job testing. As with typists‚ as Jennifer points
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System.StringBuilder was designed with the purpose of having a mutable string where a variety of operations can be performed. 9.What’s the advantage of using System.Text.StringBuilder over System.String? StringBuilder is more efficient in cases where there is a large amount of string manipulation. Strings are immutable‚ so each time a string is changed‚ a new instance in memory is created. 10.Can you store multiple data types in System.Array? No. 11.What’s the difference between the
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1. INVENTORY/SERVICE CRISIS FOR HP DESKJECT PRINTERS There are a number of causes of the inventory/service crisis described in HP: • The first cause was the demand variability of printers. For example‚ the demand for model A in Europe had the monthly standard deviation of 32.4 while the monthly mean was 42.3. Combined with increasing pressure from resellers that forced HP to offer the resellers flexible distribution‚ fluctuations in demand resulted in the high levels of safety stocks and high
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HP-UPS: The main cost difference in two scenarios should be the following: Cost Without UPS With UPS Inventory High Low Trans-shipment Low High Exchange rate impact Low High Interest Impact High Low Base material cost Low High Lost sales High Low Obsolescence High Low If the costs increase in transshipment‚ exchange rate and base material cost is more than that reduced through inventory reduction(combined should have less variation than separate individual)‚ interest
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1. Describe clearly the accounting changes Harnischfeger made in 1984 as stated in Note 2 of its financial statements. Prior to 1984‚ the Corporation used principally accelerated methods for its U.S. operating plants. The cumulative effect of this change‚ which was applied retroactively to all assets previously subjected to accelerated depreciation‚ increased net income for 1984 by $11.0 million or $.93 per common and common equivalent share. The changes as defined in Note 2 are as follows:
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2007 Executive Summary Hewlett-Packard (HP) is one of the largest technology companies in the world. Founded in 1939‚ HP employs nearly 88‚000 worldwide‚ supports 540 sales and administrative offices‚ and distributes to more than 120 countries. HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers‚ businesses and institutions globally. The company offers IT infrastructure‚ global services‚ business and home computing‚ imaging and printing. The case study reflects the appraisal of HP’s high performers
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arms concurs with the low cost strategy of BYD. Question 3 NO‚ because other nascent Chinese battery companies use only low cost strategy and they have no R&D department‚ the market is fragmented between them and there is no dominant company. Using both low cost and high quality (because of R&D department‚ vertical integration and using of manpower instead of robotic arms) allows BYD to be reliable and to dominate the market in China. Question 4 Yes‚ because Wang has both a short term and a
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the damage they had done to the Aboriginal population‚ as hessian is not completely secure‚ it is a weak fabric. 4. Scene 2 (A): Oh‚ Errol a) What is the significance of Gladys’ success when answering the Pick-A-Box questions? Gladys’ success in answering the trivial questions
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