1) Consider an incentive system that simply rewards production output. How can this system hurt an organization with a distinct bottleneck operation? What part of the organization will be hurt the most?

2) A major advantage of using SPT is the minimization of average flowtime. What is a disadvantage of the use of SPT?

3) Give an example in which more than one priority rule is used simultaneously to create sequence.

4) The flowtime of the last job in a single work center's schedule is 7 days. What is the makespan of this schedule?