Teachers' Guide: Production

The theory section covers the following theories:

• job / batch / flow production
• labour / capital intensive
• costs
• efficiency

The worksheets are on the following topics:

1. job / batch / flow production, location and production organisation
2. investment decisions - ARR, payback period and net present values
3. human resource management - Maslow, McGregor, Herzberg and Taylor, organisation charts, span of control, training and labour turnover
4. costs - direct and indirect, costing techniques - full, marginal and absoprtion, efficiency

The photos and questions are on:

1. production methods - capital or labour intensive
2. costs, factors of production and efficiency
3. production techniques and efficiency
4. sub-contracting and supplier relationships

The further work looks at:

• quality control - TQM etc.
• decision making - critical path analysis and decision trees