Production Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Introduction

Both Judith Carney and Rafael Marquese examine the contribution of African Slaves in the development and production of specific cash crops. Carney believes that the production of Rice in South Carolina is as a result of diffusion of agricultural culture from Africa to Americas. She argues that rice production was the culture of the West Africans far before the Portuguese explorers reached Africa in in the 14th century. Rice was the staple food among most of the West African communities. They used the mangrove swamps to create paddies and used canal irrigation to water the rice. The same methodology ...

Market Structure

In simple terms, market structure refers to the classification of the various types of markets, based on their unique features on how they allocate prices of a given product in the market. The aspect is primarily classified into two, which include perfect and imperfect market.

Oligopoly

Refers to a type of market structure where there are few sellers in a given economy with many buyers for the commodity. With oligopoly, the sellers have an influence on the commodity price in the market and can significantly affect competition. An example of a company to indicate the above case is the mobile ...

Introduction

The tire is primarily the only part of a car that is in touch with the road. A balance must strike among traction, durability, overall, energy efficiency and comfort by the tire in cars. Due to all these factors, the designing and manufacturing of a tire is a complex process as compared to what is generally perceived .
Headquartered in the region of Clermont-Ferrand, France, the Michelin Tire Manufacturer is available in around 170 countries. It has more than 112,000 employees who work in various departments of the company. The company has a total of 68 production plants in ...

Managerial context

Managerial roles and styles vary from company to company. This depends on various factors which include the type of company, the managerial level, the resources under one disposal and many others.

Three different managers were interviewed in this case. The managers included a Public Relation (PR) manager in a public relation firm, a production manager in a manufacturing firm and a human resource manager in a media house.

Managers can be at different levels depending on the nature of the company. The different levels determine the chain of command in a given company. There are basically three managerial levels. These include the top, the middle and ...

How would you measure and assess effectiveness of a production capability?

Production capability the total output that a plant or an enterprise produces in a given period with existing capital equipment. It involves the balancing of inputs for the manufacturer to match output demand. Effectiveness is the capability of producing the expected results. It also includes preservation and enhancement of assets. An effective production therefore is production that meets the desired production goal (Blanchard, 2012).

The following methods are used to measure and evaluate effectiveness of production capabilities:

- Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE): it was a measure developed by the Japanese in the 1970s under the concept of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). It is a function of production line availability, quality defect rate and process effectiveness ...

Conflict between Capitalists and Landlord

There exist diminishing returns to scale in the agricultural production due to the limited amount of land. When the world population increases, then the production of the agricultural production increases while more people are hired in the agricultural production. The surplus is distributed to the landowners (as rent), to the workers (as the wage), and the capital owners (as profit). Under the condition of diminishing returns, the agricultural production cannot increase the surplus to increase the profits, the wages, and the rent. The rent is fixed for the limited amount of land; therefore, the capital owners and the workers ...

Modern agricultural practices and technological advances have led to tremendous success in food production. Despite the success, efforts to increase the production of food have had negative and far-reaching effects on the ecosystem. The persistent decline in biodiversity is affecting food production as well as other food related services (GRiD par 8).
Biodiversity can be defined as the various forms of life on earth regarding the number, distribution and composition (species, alleles, groups, etc.) of the biota (Nair par 9). Agricultural activities have a direct and significant effect on biodiversity while the decline in biodiversity is negatively affecting food ...

Introduction

Packaging in retail serves multiple purposes. Packaging enables the products to be transported in a relatively safe manner. The packaged products are protected from the foreign material and spilling. Retailers can elect to print the packaging material. Printing the packaging material gives the retailers more options (Kerry et al., 2008). For instance, retailers can print the packaging material in order append their brand on the product (Breetz, 2015). Printing the packaging material is also done in order to comply with regulations requiring labeling of products. The method of printing that is used depends on the type of packaging material and ...

In the article entitled, “Remarks on Mediation and Production,” the authors Soren Andreasen and Lars Bang Larsen make their remark on the currently perceived role and suggested future role of middlemen. Note that these two authors are seasoned artists, writers, critics, and curators. Being middlemen, themselves, the two authors aim to defend the idea that middlemen play a more significant role in shaping the style of production – that middlemen help bring modernity and creativity in the style of production.

Outlining the said article, Andreasena nd Larsen first defined what they mean by the term, “middleman.” Accordingly, they have defined ...

A case study of Nucor Steel Corporation

Nucor Steel Corporation was founded in 1897 by Ransom Eli, an auto manufacturer who formed the REO Motor as noted in Nucor-WOW.com. The corporation is headquartered Charlotte, North Carolina and it is the largest steel producer in the United States. Particularly, the corporation operates in three segments namely the Steel Mills, Steel Products as well as the Raw Materials. It manufactures many products ranging from the steer bars and decks as well as the cold rolled bars among other products for industrial uses. Given that the company requires a lot of project management due to the coordination of the ...

Humans, as the creation myth suggests, are co-creators who were made to impact nature by modifying it through their activities. This is depicted in the material culture that rests in national parks, museums and other reservoirs of cultural heritage. As people live in an area, rather than simply making do with the conditions of the place and what it supplies to them, they adapt to it by producing new forms of material culture through technology that eventually makes the place change. This shows how humans are more than just consumers of nature who preserve and perpetuate its conditions, but ...

FacilitatorDate:

Farm subsidies provide a strategic approach of addressing the challenge of obesity in America. Some government policies in America allow production of corn in surplus to cater for the increased demand. However, most of the Americans do not take enough exercise to cater for over 50% increase in calories from cheap corn (Wilson, 2008). Obesity increased due to this factor hence production of farm subsidies provides an effective strategy of dealing because these foods have low calorie. By providing fewer calories to the body than the corn do, the subsidies undoubtedly provide the best food for the Americans in an ...

Sustainability has no clear line of definition as it means a lot different things to different people. To some, it could be a way of living with regard to the extent they can bear. Others could define it as the production styles they use in their flow of business, or a business as a whole. It could imply the responses to policies especially in the question of to what extent the environment that should be consumed over time (Ana Markulev, 2013).
Sustainability entails the ability to do an activity continuously. In sustainable development, the current needs are met without affecting the ability ...

Implementation of a Biometric Gun Control Technology

Implementation of a Biometric Gun Control Technology

Organization Background

Keystone Sporting Arms (KSA), LLC is a gun manufacturer company located in Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded by Bill and Steve McNeal who were firearm auctioneers. The two were fascinated by a Chipmunk .22 caliber rifle that was presented to them by a gentleman in 1994 during one of the auctioning days ("Keystone Sporting Arms, LLC", n.d.). The duo contacted the manufacturer who offered to sell the company but once the deal didn’t materialize, they took upon themselves to start manufacturing of riffles. With support from design engineers, trademarks experts, ...

Effect on Reducing Deficits and Stabilizing Prices

In a recent opinion editorial, American literary theorist, legal scholar, and public intellectual Stanley Fish decided to use a definition for neoliberalism provided by political thinker and writer Paul Treanor (2009). Fish stated that Treanor holds that neoliberalism is a philosophy where the existence and operation the market are valued separate from the production of goods and services, to the point of deliberately not justifying the market by its goods and services production. This creates an ethic based on the operation the market alone, and this resulting ethic is asserted as being capable of acting as a guide for all human action, substituting ...

Introduction

China is the most populous country in the world. It is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The population of this country is also growing at a steady rate. As a result, the demand for food in the country is growing with time. One of the reasons why the demand for food in China grows with time is the steady growth in the economy. As people’s purchasing power in the country increases, their eating habits change thus causing them to demand different varieties of food. Food security is important to a country’s growth and sustainability. Food security ...

Introduction

Company overview
Trans- European is a manufacturing company in England that manufactures plastic household items. The company produces more than 500 products that are sold to retailers and wholesalers all over Europe. The company can deliver products within a period of 24hrs after receiving the order invoice. However, the trend has been lagging and thus disrupting the timely delivery of products to the customers. Francis Lamouche contracted a consultation firm to evaluate the setbacks and recommend possible undertakings. The consultants evaluate both the delivery system of the products and the operations management system.

Ability to deliver products reliably to its distributors

The planning control office has been experiencing a challenge ...

In production, when the price of capital changes due to the relative change in labor than capital becomes cheaper and labor dearer. The capitalist then substitute the cheaper one for the costlier one.
Figure 11.4, 11.5,11.6
In the figure 11.4 shows the VMPL curve, which is MPL multiplied by price of the output. The curve is diminishing which shows that the amount capitalist will add to increase his revenue by hiring one more labor at different levels of employment.
The figure 11.5(a) shows that in the labor market the part of the labor that will be employed ...

Introduction

The changes in the factors of production affect the production process of various commodities in the market. The production process of every product is done with a primary aim of maximizing profit in the market. There are several factors that affect the profit formation process in an organization. It is the role of the management of any business to ensure the operations of the enterprise are flexible and efficient in the organization. The management of the business consists of different departments in an organization. Every department in an organization plays a major role in the success of the company. ...

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Integer Programming

The problem of integer programming (IP) refers to a problem in which some or all variables must take integer values. In the case when the constraints and the objective function are linear dependence problem is called an integer linear programming problem. Otherwise, if at least one non-linear dependence will be, it will be the integer nonlinear programming problem.
Of particular interest to the problems of the IP due to the fact that in many practical problems, we need to find an integer solution due to a discrete series of values ​​of the variables. In the field ...

This paper establishes some ways through which the Portland Plant can raise their productivity levels as well as increasing profitability, which is set to be achieved through various methods. These methods are going to be founded by performance objectives and eventually the paper will offer recommendations towards achieving that desired performance. It is evident from the information provided regarding the Portland Plant that there a myriad of issues that the Plant is struggling with. The Plant’s main customers, Hewlett Packard as indicated had experienced a problem with the product that they were offered from the Plant. It is ...

Introduction

A supply chain is the systematic organization of an organization’s resources, including the labour, information and efforts geared towards achieving smooth and effective distribution of products and or services from the point of supply to the intended customers. As the name suggests, supply chain is a series of connected activities, which must not be broken at any point without affecting the ultimate goal of making the product or service reach the consumer (Anning, Okyere & Annan, 2013). It therefore requires a well framed and structured design for easy management and eventual gain of profits and avoidance of unnecessary losses. ...

1 Introduction to the Brand
1.1 History
Vertu is manufacturing and Retailer Company based in the United Kingdom dealing with luxury hand-made mobile phone devices (Nuovo et al. 2008). The Nokia Company established the company in the year 1998, and its headquarters is in Hampshire in the UK. The Vertu Mobile Company serves the global market with its luxurious mobile phones (Nuovo et al. 2008). However, in the year 2012, Nokia decided to sell Vertu to Equity Group for unspecified reasons but retained 10% share of the company (Nuovo et al. 2008). Since its establishment, Vertu has created a ...

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS EXPANSION

International Business Expansion
The emergence of China as the world’s manufacturing hub happened in a much shorter span of time compared to the time it took for U.S or U.K to industrialize. China took just over a decade to double its GDP per capita and improve the living standards of its people ever since 2001, when it entered the World Trade Organization and opened up its borders welcoming investors from all over the world. There have been a host of favorable factors that made China the global manufacturing hub. Some of them include the abundant availability of cheap ...

Introduction

Stars Hollow Hat Company is a manufacturing firm that manufacturers and coincidentally looks for market for her finished good. Given this nature, the firm would thus require three major departments along which the job families shall be aligned. These include: management, production and sales. The following discourse focuses on firm in terms of the probable job families that would project the firm into greater heights of development.

Management/ administration: members of this department are charged with the supervisory role of the entire firm. They are mandated with the day to day decision making and ensure that both the process of ...

Division of labor

It a process whereby people specialize in areas of production in which they are best fitted to work. A British economist of the 17th century Adam Smith is accredited to have developed the modern model of division of labor. He proposed that division of labor has caused greater increase in production than any other factor. (Smith, 1776).This differences are experienced in greater size in more developed nations with more industry and improved technology and they are the major causes of universal opulence in these countries. For example industry is more amenable to division of labor than agriculture causing poor ...

Business, Ethical and Legal issues

Business, Ethical and Legal issues

Rob's situation with Dusty puts him in a dilemma. The community, customers and board members of the firearms company exert pressure on him to relieve Dusty of his duties owing to his past as a criminal record after the exposure by a local publication following a tip from Dusty's former crime mate T-rex. On the other hand, Dusty has been exemplary in his job and has even been an important figure in the community owing to his voluntary service. Furthermore, Rob is aware that he has reformed and has already atoned for his crime ...

The success of an individual in a leadership position depends on several factors. The strategy used as well as the level of training that a person has greatly influenced the success of their leadership. Some of the most successful business leaders globally employ strategies incorporating high degrees of emotional intelligence. Goleman explained emotional intelligence to be an important factor influencing the success of a leader (93). According to Goleman, successful leaders are self-aware, self-regulated, and empathetic, motivated, and with impeccable social skills (95). These elements of emotional intelligence also influence the strategy chosen by different leaders. This paper will ...

Four external factors that impact Toyota and its business are technology, customer needs, laws and regulation and economy. Development of a technology increases the level of competition in the market. Toyota aims to satisfy customer needs with their products and changing customer needs leaves the company with a big challenge to overcome.
Laws of the automobile industry are expected to be followed by companies such as Toyota and any mistake can lead to fines. Finally, changes in the economy can reduce the demand in the automobile industry.
Small companies do not participate in global business, because they do not ...

Introduction

Regional policy and innovation in the Asia/Pacific region has been of great interest to me since the class began studying the region. I have spent a considerable amount of my life living in this region, so the perspectives about the region that were introduced in chapters three and four gave me a new and different understanding of and perspective on the ways that innovation and policy are developed in the East Asian countries of the world. Interestingly, a more global perspective on development has really added to my interest in the region and the market forces that are moving ...

Abstract

Toyota has been the fifth largest producer of automobiles in the world by means of its unit sales, however, the over-emphasis of the company on the quantity has overlooked the quality of its vehicles. The increasing number of accidents incorporated by the vehicles of Toyota and numerous lawsuits against Toyota due to its quality issues resulting in the occurrence of accidents has questioned the integrity of the organization towards the safety concerns. In this manner, the ethical concerns prevail because the quality defects in its vehicles implies the life threatening situations for its customers. The company has faced large ...

Interactive Audiences is a unique type of essay that was written by Henry Jenkins about the perceived type and level of interaction that audiences of media productions in general have projected in the past and the mistakes in the generalizations on the behavior of the audiences that most prominent people in the field of media projections have made. Basically, the book centers around the fact that audiences are somehow being liberated by the improvements and revolutions in media technologies, that the cultural studies that dominated the industry in the 1980s and the 1990s were actually wrong—especially the one that ...

Introduction

This book details the processes and activities involved in the supply chain management. Some of the processes discussed in this book include purchasing of goods and services, processing of raw material, as well as distribution of finished products to the consumer market with the aim of meeting consumer needs. The processes of transforming raw materials into finished goods are also thoroughly discussed in this book. The author of this book explains that the supply chain is commonly found in both the manufacturing and service industry, where the degree of complexity of the supply chain varies from one industry to ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Answers to the Questions
1.The city of Santa Utopia is plagued by ever increasing rent. Worrying that seniors may not be able to afford their rent payments, a city supervisor proposes imposing rent controls. Using supply and demand framework, diagram the effects of rent controls. Will the Santa Utopia rental market face excess demand or excess supply?
In Utopia, the equilibrium price is at Pe and it has been very high for citizens. Therefore, a supervisor suggests applying rent control. If the city management applies that suggestion, the price level has to be kept under the equilibrium price. In ...

The primary objective of lean supply is to generate a system that is efficient and devoted to continuous improvement. Manufacturing firms that adopt lean supply strategies eliminate all possible causes of waste and enjoy well organized systems of production (Parker, 2007). Manufacturers have classified the lean production philosophy into four practices: just-in-time supplies, preventive maintenance of facilities, total quality management and human resource management (Dayna & Damien, 2005). These practices are vital in controlling production expenses and eliminating wastes arising from recalled products and spoilage. Just-in-time supply eliminates stockholding costs and reduces chances of waste due to storage.
Success of ...

Human population growth over the last few centuries has skyrocketed to a level previously unseen in human history. Although a wealth of new technologies now exist to make life easier and the overall standard of living higher, scientists and consumers alike are facing ever-increasing ethical questions regarding the intersection of consumable items and technology.
Food production changed forever during the Industrial Revolution, a western social, technological, and philosophical movement that spanned the late eighteenth and entirety of the nineteenth century (Underhill). Technological innovations like the cotton gin and the steam engine allowed for more effective food harvesting, while agricultural practices improved ...

Introduction

Nike Incorporation was formed in 1968 in Oregon. The company is a well known global brand producing footwear products which are designed to satisfy specific athletic uses as well as certain products which can be worn for leisure and casual purposes. The corporation has operations in more than 51 countries and has over 20,000 retail accounts internationally (Nike, 2012). Nike has 16 distribution centers outside United States and in 2011, 57 percent of its total revenue came from its international operations (Annual Report, 2011). Since Nike is a global firm, it has to face a number of challenges which include making ...

According to the World Food Programme (2012), almost 870 million people do not have the capacity to eat enough, majority of them living in developing countries. At least 564 million of the world’s hungry people currently reside in Asia or Oceania. In terms of gender, women comprise 60% of the entire number of the world’s hungry. Children have also been a victim of hunger around the globe as it fostered malnutrition and under nutrition, killing five million kids under the age of five from developing nations (World Food Programme, 2012). There have been proposals that most of the ...

Value calculation is used to determine the exchange value of goods according to the Marx's law of value while price is calculated to determine the same exchange relation but according to the Law of Equal Rate of Profit.

Abstract labor as the only substance of valuenot use value

In capitalism , the capitalist is concerned with the means of production .He purchases the labor power or the capacity of the labor to work. The capitalist doe not have knowledge or interest about the useful labor or the specific use values of the labor. He hired the worker only to produce the commodities that will be exchanged in the market. So ...

The organization is mainly in the production of food services where food and beverages are the typical production outputs. The cycle of production for the organization varies from stage to stage and entails the production phase, the processing phase, the distribution phase, and accessibility of the product, consumption of the product and the waste disposal of consumed items. The inputs are raw food products, and this is prepared to form the different cuisines served. The global village is served with food commodities from various cuisines as the final product.
The organization is open to feedback that may either be ...

Issues in Management: Critical Thinking Workplace Dispute Analysis

Issues in Management: Critical Thinking Workplace Dispute Analysis

Introduction

Cogent, critical thinking in role-playing skills assist managers in maintaining salubrious workplace conditions. This exercise assesses an application to the problem of Lauren’s case study in figuring out what happened, and remedy a dispute arising in the office. The framework for arriving at a decision rests upon four key steps, which include the following: (a) identify, (b) gather/analyze, (c) consider options, and (d) develop well-reasoned ideas. Besides the buzzword of ‘sustainability,’ perhaps the most often discussed business topics revolve around issues of ethics and communications – which often arise in the ...

Business

Analysis of the application of management concepts
The functions of management that are discussed as concepts include planning, organizing, staffing, leading and controlling organization’s resources including humans. These concepts are in place to assist organizations achieve their goals.

Planning is mainly used by organizations in choosing the most appropriate goals as well as identifying the best courses of action for reaching the goals in the best ways. Managers will involve themselves in different planning steps and activities during their work in a bid to achieve the goals of the organization. Some of the activities involved in planning include ...

Red meat, fatty foods, high-cholesterol, high-salt, high-sugar, and too many calories – these are some of the characteristics of a Western diet (Wollston, 2015). It is a fact that this kind of diet is harmful to one’s health. According to the data from the Multiple Cause of Death Files, 1999-2013, around 610, 000 people die annually because of heart disease (as cited in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2015). In addition, around 78.6 million adults in the U.S. are classified as obese. This means that 78.6 million are at risk of deadly ...

Nature and role of marketing

Marketing is a process of selling and communicating the availability of goods and products to consumers. It is an act of enticing public by giving information of the location of the products. It is an organizational function of delivery, creation and giving customers value. It is extended to customer's relationship that benefits institution in improvement of the product sale. Marketing is described as the science and art of choosing the market target. It is made possible through market analysis and segmentation. It is projected to customer understanding in their purchasing behavior. The marker is given a chance to give priority to ...

Introduction

Market capitalism refers to a market in which things like distribution, investment, and production are influenced by demand and supply forces. As such, the prices of both services and goods can be established in an economy with a price system that is free. Alternatively, it can be defined as an economic system where the industry and the country’s trade are controlled by the private sector without any sort of interference from the state. On the other hand, market socialism is one where methods of production and other economic activities are socially owned or publicly owned such as cooperatives. The essay ...

As Vice President of Supply Chain Management System I cannot help drawing the attention of company to the lean production that was founded as an interpretation of the ideas firstly implemented by Toyota production system. The concept of "Lean" united two different approaches, while aligning the improved quality, high-speed processes and a wide range of goods and services. This concept is oriented on attainment of the lower costs ensuring high quality and high speed of processes. Modern aspects of the concept “Lean” play the vital role in company logistics and its implementation.
The transportation is the source of logistic ...

U.S. flower growers induce congress to snip imports
Colombia has a comparative advantage over California in the production of cut flowers. It is because the total cost of production of the flowers in Colombia is lower compared to the costs incurred in California for the production of the same quantity of flowers. The labor costs in Colombia ensure that the available capital can be used to secure more workers thereby boosting the production levels. Also, Colombia has an advantage owing to the favorable climate that prevails in the country and goes a long mile in the reduction of other operational ...

The term technical complexity measures the extent of control an organization has over its production process. Technology has allowed for predictability and certainty on the production line as a result of mechanization. Continuous process technology is also a result of mechanization. This method of production implies that production of goods and services is an on-going process 24/7. Hence, this means that there is no room for error in a continuous process as it would lead to losses.
Technical complexity is greatest with continuous process technology because it allows for standardization and minimizes the chances of a break down. If one stage of ...

I have a long term goal to achieve in my life. To start with, being a student of business management, I really would like to use my managerial skills in my country in order to captivate a flourishing evolution in automobile industry, cars in particular. Personal satisfaction plays a key role in my career decision. Today cars are the most common mode of transport in our growing world. I, being a management student, have a little planning to run an international company that manufactures cars. I do not really believe in overnight success and in order to achieve my set goal, a lot is required of ...

Introduction

Foxconn Technology Group is a Taiwanese company that manufactures and assembles many products of Apple, including iPad and iPhone in China (Hays, n.pag.). The number of people employed by the company is over 0.1 million. However, the company has been in news recently for being alleged of unethical human resource practices and inappropriate treatment of employees. The objective of this paper is to understand the pros and cons of Foxconn issue through article review.

The paper is divided into four sections. The first section deals with analysis and evaluation of arguments in favour of the issue through an identified article. ...

Introduction

Human resources refer to the description of personnel who make up the workforce of a given organization. It is also the name of the utility within a firm that has the overall obligation of implementing strategies and programs relating to the management of individuals. The human resource in an organization is very important in ensuring the smooth running of the firm’s agenda. It is the human resource department that is charged with the implementation of various organization’s tasks and policies. The human resource department function may set strategies, create policies, systems, and standards that effectively implement these strategies in a ...

Vice president’s comments on cost and schedule variance

The concerns of Spokane’s vice president were valid because the cost and schedule variances had gone up between the second and the third month. The total cost variances for all the work packages in the second month were $14,000, a figure that went up $25,000 in the third month, reflecting a -78% surge in the total cost variances. Also, the scheduled variances indicated by the vice president were correct, as it showed that the period between the second and the third month experienced a 45% slippage on schedules. However, the information on the table is not ...

Introduction

Black berry, one of the well known mobile manufacturing companies, is expected to leave it the business of making mobiles soon. The reason is the current poor performance of the company (Austen, 2013). The company has made a deal of $4.7 billion for its privatization; however, it seems useless to solve the current problems of the company (Connors, 2013).
The company has been performing poorly for last few years in terms of its revenue, sales, profitability, and cash flows. The market share of black berry was declined to 5% in 2012 from 20% in 2009. The decline in the ...

Canada is one of the countries that use command economy. The government makes the core decisions on resource allocation for factors of production such as oil, capital, and labor. Prices are also under control by the same body. The nation is also an example of a country that uses free market economies because the law of demand and supply regulates factors of production rather than the central government. Lastly, Canada practices use of mixed economies because the government provides employment standards maintenance, protection of the environment, competition support, and a standardized welfare system.
China is among the countries that ...

Introduction

Companies found in different sectors of the economy as a result of the specificity of their activities have often been taunted for being responsible for the pollution harming almost every component of the natural environment. Consequently, the mostly unfavorable impacts of their economic activities that have a relationship with outward emissions, as well as, consumptions culminates to resource depletion, water, air and soil pollution and even the climate changes that have continually been realized on the globe. The occurrence of all the above culminates to deteriorating the quality of life and adverse consequences on the lives of the future ...

Employee Resourcing

Employee resourcing entails HR concern with a range of approaches and methods used by the employers for resourcing the organizations in a manner that enables them to meet the key organizational goals. Thus, it involves the staffing including recruitment and selection as well as retention and the dismissal. Also, it involves, performance management including the appraisal as well as the management of employees performance. Further, it involves administration functions such as policy development, documentation, and procedural development as well as management of change (Beardwell, Holden & Claydon, 2004).
However, although there is general agreement regarding what constitutes areas such as ...

If Treadmill of Production is true, how will sustainable development ever be possible in the future?

The financial capital has utilized by the treadmill production to change the controllable environmental technologies into refractory human labor. Whereas, increasing social belief is that primary resource to achieve public welfare is through economic growth. However, the interests of the treadmill are obtained through fixed capital, public institutions, and private investments that state-run to facilitate economic growth (Schnaiberg).
Moreover, these systems and investments are oriented by the government through organized and non-organized labor. Several treadmill actors have offered substantial resistance regarding social policies to promote sustainable development. On the other hand, there are opinions to preserve natural resources for ...

This article gives an elaborate introduction of the processes and activities involved in the supply chain management. The processes like procurement of the materials, processing of the materials as well as distribution of these materials to the relevant destinations and customers. The processes of transforming raw materials into finished goods are also well catered for in this article. The article shows that the supply chain is commonly found both in the manufacturing and service industry where the degree of complexity of the supply chain varies from one industry to another as well as between firms. The article shows that ...

The Just in Time is a managerial concept that finds a way into the setup of the company through the subsystem of inventory management, and the whole productive mechanism modifies itself in order to craft a leaner and better manufacturing culture that drives on the basis of collaboration and teamwork. The integration of Management Information System (MIS) is a necessity that the company needs before applying shredded model of production. However, the suppliers have to have partial access to records of the organization, and upon reaching critical deficiency of the components and subparts those collectively create the final product, the system will automatically ...

Introduction

The process in which there is a decline of manufacturing in the region or society; for example, when a company closes down its production facilities due to being under pressure from the foreign competition. It is an economic and social change that happens due to the removal of many industries. Marx’s and Row thorn’s theory of de-industrialization is considered one of the earliest definitions, which say that it happens due to technological innovations . With the invention, work that is more physical is increased and with that, the capital increases. The machines then replace the labor and the rate of ...