I need help with a Management question. All explanations and answers will be used to help me learn.

1.Research and write a short paper illustrating how an organization uses one of the following types of facility layouts:

•Product layout

•Process layout

•Cellular layout

•Fixed position layout

What are the advantages and disadvantages in this organization? How does the layout affect process flows, quality, efficiency, time, and cost?

Answer 1:

2.Describe the layout of a typical fast-food franchise such as McDonald’s. What type of layout is it? How does it support productivity? Do different franchises (e.g., Burger King or Wendy’s) have different types of layouts? Why?

Answer 2:

3. An assembly line with 30 activities is to be balanced. The total amount of time to complete all 30 activities is 60 minutes. The longest activity takes 2.4 minutes and the shortest takes .3 minutes. The line will operate for 480 minutes per day.

a.What are the maximum and minimum cycle times?

b. How much daily output will be achieved by each of those cycle times?

Answer 3:

1. What would you consider to be some relevant factors in deciding whether to go to college? Irrelevant?

2. Same concept as above, but how about making the decision to get married?

3. Same concept as above, but how about buying a house? 

4. Same concept as above, but how about changing jobs?

It should be your original work and less than one page.

INSTRUCTIONS:  Answer both questions in no more than 3 pages total using New Times Roman and 12 font.   

1

Former DHS Secretary Chertoff under the Obama Administration commented on Trump’s proposal to build a wall between the southern U.S. and Mexico: “If you are going to look at the mission of DHS, in which priority No. 1 is security, you have to take an approach to the budget that balances all the elements of security.”  “I’ll be less polite—this proposal is nonsense.  It sacrifices real, every-day security programs on the altar of a campaign promise that will not increase security one iota.”  What homeland security programs is Trump proposing to cut to pay for the wall?  Is Secretary Chertoff right or wrong in his criticism, and why?

2

Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in 1840:  “There are two things that a democratic people will always find very difficult, to begin a war and to end it.”  Apply this observation to terrorism with your analysis and examples.