Operations Management
BMGT 203-RNC
Page 1 of 8
Assignment #1 –
DUE OCTOBER
@&, midnight,
Instructions: DUE AT MIDNIGHT – OCT. 27
TOTAL 60 Marks – 8% of Grade
1. Submit your responses in the Blackboard Assignment area. Late
assignments subject to 20% penalty per day and will not be
accepted after 5 days late.
2. Provide your solution in one MS WORD document.
3. Provide your final answers in format provided. You are required
to support your answers showing calculations where
appropriate. This is important as part marks may be awarded if
your final answer is incorrect but calculations are provided.
4. Your answers to questions are required to be in sentence format
with proper grammar and spelling.
Do all questions in this assignment. TOTAL 60 MARKS
Please note the Humber College policy on plagiarism.
There are 7 questions in this assignment and you must
do all 7.
Operations Management
BMGT 203-RNC
Assignment #1 –
DUE OCTOBER
@&, midnight,
PLACE YOUR ANSWERS IN THE AREA INDICATED
1. A company in South Korea makes bicycle wheels. They make 10,000 per day
with the following resources:
a) Labour: 600 hours per day at $6.50 per hour
b) Raw Material: 1,000 kilograms of rubber per day at $1 per kilogram and
1,000 kilograms of aluminum per day at $2 per kilogram
c) Energy: $4000 per day
d) Capital costs and overhead costs: $15,000 per day
a) What is the labour productivity per labour-hour. 4 Marks
b) What is the multifactor productivity for these bicycle wheels? 4 Marks
c) If energy costs can be reduced by $1000 per day what is the percent change in
multifactor productivity? 2 Marks
