...Case Study “MacPherson Refrigeration Limited” Mohamed Yehia Emam (S1500733) George Gabriel George (S1501034) Table of Contents Table of contents Page 2 1. Introduction Page 3 2. Problem Statement Page 3 3. Performance Measures and Trade-Offs Page 4 4. Assumptions Page 5 5. Iterative Plan Page 5 5.1. Integer Programming Model Page 5 5.2. Integer Programming Model Considering Overtime Page 6 5.3. Integer Programming Model Considering Hiring/Firing Page 7 6. Conclusion Page 9 1. Introduction In this case study, production planning of MacPherson Refrigeration Limited (MRL) for the next year is conducted. In order to provide some background information about the company and the related production plant; there are some points to be mentioned. First of all MRL is relatively large company with a sales of about $28.5 million and for the last ten years they are in the business of producing consumer refrigeration. Secondly, the production plant which this production planning is related has an increased efficiency in the last years through process design and assembly technologies. In this report, process and results of this case study is presented. In this first part, problem which is going to be studied is presented. Following that, decision criteria and performance measures are given in order to evaluate results. Then, assumptions are made considering the business...
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...to privacy. Case 9.1: Unprofessional Conduct shows how Pettit privacy was violated. Pettit was a teacher of many years and never had a bad evaluation of her work. What she did outside of work was labeled unprofessional by the Board of Education and they chose to fire her because they believed she was unfit to teach. I disagree with them completely and they did violate her privacy. Business Ethics is defined as “the study of what constitutes right and wrong (or good and bad) human conduct in a business context” (Shaw, 2014, p. 4). Based off this definition, I believed that Pettit should not have been fired. I also believe that the Board of Education definitely violated her right to privacy and they were not justified in firing her. Pettit was a dedicated teacher for many years and she did not involve her personal life in the workplace. Because of her sexual preferences, she was judged and fired from her job. The Board of Education should not have fired Pettit is due to the fact that they had no evidence to prove that she was not doing her job correctly and her privacy was violated. Pettit was an elementary school teacher who taught children with disabilities. The case study said that “Mrs. Pettit was one of those dedicated teachers”……and “she had been working with mentally challenged children for over thirteen years” (Shaw, 2014, p. 342). Pettit did not promote her sexual lifestyles in the classroom so why did the Board of Education fire her? The Board...
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...should Rosemary address her prolem with regards to the situation with Kate as well as in protecting her assets? Point of View: Rosemary Worth, the owner of the Private Fitness, LLC Objectives: 1. to strengthen the controls of the business 2. to eliminate theft and any other kind of fraud which can harm the entity 3. to operate and earn revenues effectively and efficiently Areas of Consideration: 1. The market of their business 2. The acts of Kate 3. The goal of Rosemary 4. Protection of assets 5. Rosemary’s situation Alternative Courses of Action: 1. Fire Kate and hire one of the remaining instructors as a manager Advantages: • Possible thief will be reduced • Kate can no longer steal from the business Disadvantages: • Chance of Kate of proving that she can change and be a faithful employee would be lost • The new assigned instructor as manager might do the same 2. Fire Kate and hire a new person as a manager other than the instructors. Advantages: • The work may be organized since they focus primarily on their respective...
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...employement-at-will doctrine. Employment-at-Will Doctrine Employment-at-will doctrine means the common law rule that holds that whenever an employment relationship is of an indefinate duration, either party- the employer or the employee-may terminate the relationship at any time,for good cause or bad, in good faith or with malice(Halbert & Ingulli, 2012. p 46). John John is not protected by the employment-at will doctrine. The reason that I can fire him is because his interent blasting is a direct violation of company policy. There is no privacy when posting on the internet. When you post things on the interent you are posting for the whole world to see. John is not covered by any laws to protect him from being fired. There is also no way that he ccan contest the firing because he is violatiating the privacy of one of our most important clients. It is our duty to protect all of our client private business. Bill Bill is also not protected by the emloyment-at-will doctrine. The reason that Bill can be fired is because he is using company property illegally. You can not use company issued equipment to run your own personal business. Business is to be conducted on business assigned...
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...Ob Case Study Christiane Khoury Nov 26, 2012 MGT301 Personality and Perception Case Study 1. People are born different, with distinctive personalities and attitudes. Some are optimistic or pessimistic, active or passive, calm or agitated and so on. Such diversity in personalities, in addition to the culture that individuals are attached and raised by, affects their attitudes and thus their perception. Therefore, personality plays a role in defining people’s reactions and behaviors to events around them. In the case, “Differing Perceptions at Clarkston Industries”, the manager Susan contemplates the problem of Jack, a new employee she hired. Jack was hired directly after he left prison, given a chance by Susan who in turn passed through a similar situation in the past. Later then, Jack was accused and suspected of stealing money by his fellow coworkers who perceived such an incident on previous records that is he staying in prison. On the other hand, Susan had ambivalent thoughts and was disturbed. She perceived the problem considering Jack and avoiding muddling up with perception shortcuts such as stereotyping and Halo effect along with reflecting on the reaction of other employees to her decision. 2. In my opinion, Susan should not fire Jack for two reasons. The first reason is that Jack, as mentioned in the case, is a hard working and capable worker who appreciated...
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...the right to privacy. Case 9.1: Unprofessional Conduct shows how Pettit privacy was violated. Pettit was a teacher of many years and never had a bad evaluation of her work. What she did outside of work was labeled unprofessional by the Board of Education and they chose to fire her because they believed she was unfit to teach. I disagree with them completely and they did violate her privacy. Business Ethics is defined as “the study of what constitutes right and wrong (or good and bad) human conduct in a business context” (Shaw, 2014, p. 4). Based off this definition, I believed that Pettit should not have been fired. I also believe that the Board of Education definitely violated her right to privacy and they were not justified in firing her. Pettit was a dedicated teacher for many years and she did not involve her personal life in the workplace. Because of her sexual preferences, she was judged and fired from her job. The Board of Education should not have fired Pettit is due to the fact that they had no evidence to prove that she was not doing her job correctly and her privacy was violated. Pettit was an elementary school teacher who taught children with disabilities. The case study said that “Mrs. Pettit was one of those dedicated teachers”……and “she had been working with mentally challenged children for over thirteen years” (Shaw, 2014, p. 342). Pettit did not promote her sexual lifestyles in the classroom so why did the Board of Education fire her? The Board of Education...
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...and Perception Case Study 1. People are born different, with distinctive personalities and attitudes. Some are optimistic or pessimistic, active or passive, calm or agitated and so on. Such diversity in personalities, in addition to the culture that individuals are attached and raised by, affects their attitudes and thus their perception. Therefore, personality plays a role in defining people’s reactions and behaviors to events around them. In the case, “Differing Perceptions at Clarkston Industries”, the manager Susan contemplates the problem of Jack, a new employee she hired. Jack was hired directly after he left prison, given a chance by Susan who in turn passed through a similar situation in the past. Later then, Jack was accused and suspected of stealing money by his fellow coworkers who perceived such an incident on previous records that is he staying in prison. On the other hand, Susan had ambivalent thoughts and was disturbed. She perceived the problem considering Jack and avoiding muddling up with perception shortcuts such as stereotyping and Halo effect along with reflecting on the reaction of other employees to her decision. 2. In my opinion, Susan should not fire Jack for two reasons. The first reason is that Jack, as mentioned in the case, is a hard working and capable worker who appreciated the chance he was given. Second, disregarding if it is true or not, Jack is accused of stealing money and his colleagues are demanding he being fired immediately but...
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...states how teacher unions have had a long history that has led to high teaching standards, ensurance of student achievement and rooting out corruption in the education profession. Chen brings up in her article that unions have a strong influence and teachers that are apart of these unions are more effective teachers than those who are not. This is the main benefit for students and parents dealing with public teachers in unions and as Chen continues she seems to believe there is more problems than benefits. Teacher unions make it extremely difficult to fire or dispose of unfit or harmful teachers in today’s society. Unions protect teachers so much that receive tenure it becomes almost impossible to fire them sometimes creating situations where students are negatively affected by these bad teachers. Not only do the students have to deal with an unfit or harmful teacher but it also takes a lot of money and time for a teacher to be fired. This difficult event of firing a teacher is because of the role of tenure that teachers receive after a certain amount of years at a certain school. Chen believes that...
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...Case Study: Should He Be Fired for That Facebook Post? 1) What are the issue(s) arise in Downcity Motors? Elaborate it Insufficient in employee handbook According to the case study, Downcity Motors did not have a proper policy regarding the actions have been done by James Kenton. They have not yet updated their employee manual to cover the issue regarding the social media. The management actually has been talking about this for months, but they kept dropping down on the to-do list instead of take action regarding this issue. Do not consider the opinion of employees According to the case study, it has addressed that Kenton used to come to Susannah and Toby to discuss about the issue in the Mercedes Benz event and expressed his opinion. However, they decided to ignore their comment. Highly engaged employee like Kenton normally is enthused about their organization and care about its success. When they are less given chances to express their opinion in the organization, in the sense of participation, more likely it will demotivate the employees and employees do not feel their value to the company. Lack of two way communication in Downcity Motors Downcity Motors seems did not promote feedback channel from its employees. The organization seems using the autocratic management style where employees need to follow everything that decided by the upper management. Like Dell wants his daughter to fire Kenton with a strong word of “He got to go”. Besides, even when a particular...
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...was the earliest solid rocket fuel. China, in the late second century BC provides us with the earliest recorded mention of gunpowder. Bamboo tubes, filled with saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal, were the first form of solid rocket fuel. The bamboo tubes were tossed into ceremonial fires during religious festivals. It was hoped that the noise of the explosion would frighten evil spirits....
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...it protects teachers from being fired for various reasons, it prohibits school districts from firing experienced teachers to hire less experienced and less expensive teachers, it protects academic freedom, encourages the careful selection of effective teachers, and it allows teachers to work more effectively since they are not in fear of losing their jobs. Teacher Tenure is a job contract that is guaranteed to a teacher, after a period of two to seven years in the position, that prohibits them from being fired without a rational cause. Prior to the protection of...
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...technologies include recycling, incineration, and sanitary landfills. This will strictly discuss the problem, Methods/Technology, and Beneficial aspects of Incineration. Incineration is a waste treatment process that involves the combustion of organic substances contained in waste materials. Incineration and other high temperature waste treatment systems are described as "thermal treatment". Incineration of waste materials converts the waste into ash, flue gas, and heat. The ash is mostly formed by the inorganic constituents of the waste, and may take the form of solid lumps or particulates carried by the flue gas. The flue gases must be cleaned of gaseous and particulate pollutants before they are dispersed into the atmosphere. In some cases, the heat generated by incineration can be used to generate electric power. There are several types of incineration technologies: Rotary-kiln, Burn Barrels, Fixed grates the typical amount of net energy that can be produced per ton municipal waste is about 2/3 MWh of electricity and 2 MWh of district heating. Thus, incinerating about 600 metric tons (660 short tons) per day of waste will produce about 400 MWh of electrical energy per day (17 MW of electrical power continuously for 24 hours) and 1200 MWh of district heating energy each day. Incineration has a number of outputs such as the ash and the emission to the atmosphere of flue gas. Before the flue gas cleaning system, if installed, the flue gases may contain significant amounts of...
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...Ethical found in the case This article occur two huge ethical issues. Firstly, the workers of Prime Flight earn their tips without minimum wages. Under The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), an employer of a tipped employee is required to pay $2.13 an hour in direct wages if that amount plus the tips received equals at least the federal minimum wage, the employee retains all tips and the employee customarily and regularly receives more than $30 a month in tips. If an employee's tips combined with the employer's direct wages of at least $2.13 an hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference. http://www.dol.gov/elaws/faq/esa/flsa/002.htm Besides, Prime Flight also lay off more than 600 of its employees without compensating. The workers of Prime Flight were fired without just cause, the Act says the employer must either give you written notice that you’re going to be fired or pay the workers the wages they would earn in the notice period. These wages are called compensation for length of service, and are sometimes known as termination pay or severance pay. The employer could give them an equivalent combination of notice and compensation. In addition, if an employer fires 50 or more employees at a single location within a two-month period, special rules apply unless the terminations are part of a normal seasonal reduction in staff. The employees are entitled to more notice or pay between 8 and 16 weeks or more, depending on the total...
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...New shooting by private guards in Iraq fuels anger By Tina Susman and Christian Berthelsen October 10, 2007 Guards from a private security company opened fire Tuesday on a car that they said ignored commands to stop, killing two women and unleashing new Iraqi rage over the convoys that protect many foreigners here. The shootings in Baghdad’s Karada neighborhood, coming less than a month after Blackwater USA guards were accused of shooting to death as many as 17 Iraqis in the capital, brought an immediate response from Iraq’s government. “The Iraqi government is about to take strict measures to safeguard the lives of our people,” said the government spokesman, Ali Dabbagh, adding that no country should permit companies to “mess around” on its territory. “Iraqi people are equal to those of any other nation.” Salih Fyad, an Iraqi lawmaker with Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s Islamic Dawa Party, said the shooting would make it more difficult for the government to accept the continued operations of foreign security companies in Iraq. “I think the Iraqi government will have clear and specific demands regarding the work of these companies,” he said. “The demands are increasing to lift the immunities and hold these companies accountable.” A top spokesman for Unity Resources Group, a security firm whose head office is in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, said its guards were involved in Tuesday’s shooting. Chief Operating Officer Michael Priddin said Unity Resources, which has operated...
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...HANDLING There are three basic rules that are the foundation for the safe handling and shooting of all types of guns. These rules fully apply to the air rifles that are used in JROTC marksmanship programs. These fundamental safety rules focus on three key parts of every gun that control when and where the gun can be fired. Those parts are the MUZZLE, ACTION, and TRIGGER. Everyone should know these basic parts of a gun, whether or not they ever will be involved in target shooting, so that they can practice the rules for safe gun handling any time they are in a situation where a gun is present. • MUZZLE. The forward end of the barrel. The point where the pellet or projectile leaves the barrel when the gun is fired. A gun is aimed by pointing its muzzle at the target. ACTION. The working mechanism of the gun. Gun actions typically have a bolt or lever that is used to open and close the action so that the gun can be loaded and unloaded. TRIGGER. The trigger is part of the action or working mechanism of the gun. The trigger is a lever that projects out of the bottom of the gun. A trigger guard protects the trigger. After a gun is loaded and the action is closed, the gun is fired by pulling the trigger. Trigger Action action muzzle safety trigger CBI INTRODUCTION The sport of target rifle shooting is one of the safest of all youth sports. In 104 years of Olympic shooting, there has never been an accidental injury involving a firearm. There are several thousand JROTC teams and junior...
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