-Name the "5" resources of any manager and explain the one that you consider is the most

important

-Explain at least three benefits achieved thanks to the industrial revolution and three benefits achieved thanks to the contributions of Henry Ford that we still have nowadays.

-How would you recognize a Blue Ocean company. Name at least three characteristics of a Red Ocean market. What would you do to transform any company from a red to a blue ocean industry?

-You are the owner of a construction company in Tallahassee, FI. Most of your employees finished high school and many of them are engineers or with a professional specialization. Nevertheless, they are used to work in a tough environment and most of their regular jobs need a high qualification. Which kind of leadership style would you use? Would you try only one leadership style?

-Explain why it is important for a manager to be able to develop others

-You are the quality manager in a small organization. Many pieces that you are producing are defective. Your company is losing market because of this problem, there are plenty of devolutions everyday. The employees are complaining about the overtime because they have to receive the defective pieces, repacking, write their codes and storage them again. The aditional time is not being paid. Many employees want to quit and it is affecting the work environement.

The maintenance of the equipment (which produces the pieces) is out of date because it is a new adquisition and the Directors consider that there is no need to invest in that yet. Nevertheless,the cost of receive the deffective pieces, the customers complaints (many of them are not coming back), the products changes and devolutions, the work environment is getting worse, the cost to hire new people, and many other problems are more expensive than the maintenance of equipment.

Name at least three symptoms and find the root of the problem. Explain your reasoning.

Propose one solution based on the root of the problem. How would yo do it?