Answer:
Factors to consider:
1. Specialisation role
2. Complexity of sales process
3.Tenure
4.Geographical coverage
5. Sales Representative leadership
6. Support network
7. Internal Bureaucracy
8. Value add of managers
Factors not to consider;
1. Market share
2. Production process
3. Distribution process
4. Personal affiliation, race or religion
Explanation:
When considering a company's span of control, which simply means the number of junior staff a manager should manage, it is important to note factors relating to geographical coverage, a wide coverage can create difficulties in supervision to a manager. Consequently reducing the span of control.
Specialisation also help in ensuring the manager is an expert in the area he or she supervise. Experienced manager with good understanding of the tasks, good knowledge of the workers and good relationships with the workers, will be able to supervise more workers
The complexity of a sale process can affect a manager's supervision performance. if the sale process for example require an online payment to a final user who may not be physically available. Supervising such sales requires adequate training.
Other factors like; Tenure, Sales Representative leadership, Support network, Internal Bureaucracy, Value add of managers are paramount in determining span of control. However, market share, production process, distribution process and personal affiliation, race and religion should not affect the span of control.
Answer:
From maintenance to department B will be allocated 85,333 dollars
Explanation:
We distribute maintenance over personnel and operating and then,
we distributed the accumulated in personnel over the operating department:
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<em><u>For the given question it would be:</u></em>
total maintenance-hours: 800 + 960 + 640 = 2,400
<u>allocation of maintenance:</u>
320,000 x 640/2400 = 85,333
Answer:
. All countries can gain from trade if they all specialize in production according to comparative advantage
Explanation:
Comparative advantage is when a country produces a product at a lower opportunity cost when compared with its trading partners.
Absolute advantage is when a country produces more quantities of goods and services than its trading partners.
A country can still have comparative advantage in production if opportunity cost is increasing once it's opportunity cost doesn't become greater than that of its trading partners.
A country can have comparative advantage without having absolute advantage.
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I think A. Because I think it is very important to meet new people and getting to know them.
