The managers at microfab meet and realize that they have huge costs associated with training new employees, difficulty finding someone who can take the place of lost employees, and lower productivity than they would prefer from each employee. what can they do to address this issue?
a. decrease the amount of control managers have over employees
b. decrease the number of tasks each employee performs
c. increase the number of tasks each employee performs
d. increase the number of employees under each manger
e. train the new employees themselves

Is exploiting a distinctive competence or improving efficiency for competitive advantage. (a) cooptation (b) coalition (c) competitive intelligence (d) competitive aggression (e) smoothing

Statistical process control charts: a. indicate to the operator the true quality of material leaving the process. b. display upper and lower limits for process variables or attributes and signal when a process is no longer in control. c. indicate to the process operator the average outgoing quality of each lot. d. display the measurements on every item being produced. e. are a graphic way of classifying problems by their level of importance, often referred to as the 80-20 rule.

Mesa company produces wooden rocking chairs. the company has two production departments, cutting and assembly. the wood is cut and sanded in cutting and then transferred to assembly to be assembled and painted. from assembly, the chairs are transferred to finished goods inventory and then are sold. mesa has compiled the following information for the month of february: cutting department assemblydepartmentdirect materials $ 73,000 $ 13,000direct labor 73,000 108,000applied manufacturing overhead 159,000 171,000cost of goods completed and transferred out 233,000 255,000required: 1, 2, 3, & 4. prepare journal entries for the transactions in the cutting and assembly departments of mesa company. (if no entry is required for a transaction/event, select "no journal entry required" in the first account field.)