Active Model Exercise

Active Model 10.1, “Level Strategy,” appears in MyLab Operations Management. It allows you to evaluate the effects of modifying the size of a constant workforce.

A screen shot shows a level strategy spreadsheet with the cost and capacities, workforce level, and the production plan and an inset accompanying bar graph representing the production plan.

Questions

  1. If we use the same number of workers in each period, what happens as the number of workers increases from 15?

  2. If we use the same number of workers in each period, what happens as the number of workers decreases from 15?

  3. Suppose the hiring cost is $1,100. What happens as the number of workers increases?

  4. Suppose the overtime cost is $3,300. What happens as the number of workers increases?

  5. Suppose the undertime cost is the ...

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