Module 11, Session 2
Handout 2

Scenario

You are the employer of a skateboard company called North American Skateboard Company. You are in the process of reorganizing the work area. Currently there are nine employees who assemble the skateboards. You are moving them to another room.

You need to consider the following in order to determine whether you can hire more workers or whether you need to lay off workers according to the space available:

1. Square feet of the current room and square feet of the new room

2. Square feet of work area needed for each of the workers
3. Differences between the square footage of each room.
4. Availability of new space to accommodate the workers.

When given specific information about the work area, pupils will come to

the conclusion that there is not enough room for all workers. At that

point, they need to be given additional information to make a decision about

which employee to let go: hours each employee works per week, salaries, and production rates.

5. Hours each employee works per month and per quarter
6. Production of each employee
7. True Production: work production- rejects
8. Salary: month, quarter

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