1) You manage a fabrication department. Your department needs to machine 1,000 brackets to be delivered to the assembly department for the assembly line which will begin working in 72 hours at 6 am. You will hire temporary help to fabricate the brackets. One unskilled candidate can be trained and get the job done in 72 hours @ $12.00 per hour. Another candidate who already has the skills can do the job in 40 hours @ $25.00 per hour. The most important consideration is that the brackets are delivered by 6:00 am when the assembly line starts up.

Make a list of all your alternative hiring decisions, the pro's and con's,and cost efficiency and effectiveness of each alternative.

2) You manage a production department from Monday to Friday with a day shift and a night shift, 20 employees each. There is a refrigerator in the break room for the convenience of those who want to keep personal food and beverages for lunch and snacks. Your day shift supervisor sends you a memo complaining about the night shift's disposing of the day shifts property left in the refrigerator. At the same time you receive an email from the night shift supervisor complaining about the day shift's storing food and left-overs for days which leaves little room for the night shift to use the refrigerator. You also receive a note from the Saturday cleaning service. It mentions that there are a number of old spills, old food, and containers in the refrigerator from the previous week. The note also states that the refrigerator will not be cleaned because they do not want to be liable or blamed for any missing food, food containers, drinks or other property left by employees.

First, submit a list of all your alternative resolution decisions and the pro's and con's or each decision.

Second, pick one of your alternatives and write policies or procedures for its implementation.

1)Submit your lists of alternatives, and

2) Submit your chosen alternatives which must include policies and procedures for implementation of your chosen alternative.