Review and Discussion Questions:
1) As a manager, which learning percentage would you prefer) other things being equal), 110 percent or 60 percent? Explain?
Let us examine what each learning curve would mean in a production environment, and see what would be the best answer to the above stated question. In production your employees knowledge base is from learning from doing and when I first looked at the figures I would say that as a manager I would want my employees at a 60 percent learning curve because that means that the cycle time or time to deliver might be shorter compared with the employees at the 110 percent learning curve. Although after reading Learning Curves and the Cyclical Behavior of Manufacturing Industries, I would have to say that maybe the 110 percent might not be so bad after all, of course in the paper it states that this is relative to the type of market you are in. In the article it states that if the market is in a recession than you might not want to......
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