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The installation of production improvement option D which boosts worker productivity by 50%
by using robots to assist in producing footwear - (answer)is a more economically attractive
means for reducing labor costs per pair produced production facility in North America than for a
production facility in the Asia Pacific
Which one of the following actions is least likely to increase labor productivity by an amount
that is large enough to result in lower labor costs per pair produced at a particular plant? -
(answer)Increasing worker base pay by the allowed maximum of 15% each and every year until
the company's base pay compensation per employee exceeds the total compensation per
employee ($/year) of all other companies in the industry
Which one of the following options is usually an appealing way to try to increase a company's
ROE? - (answer)Repurchasing share4s of common stock
Which one of the following has little bearing on whether profitable opportunity exists to install
additional new or refurbished production equipment in the upcoming decision round? -
(answer)How many companies in the industry have expanded their production capacity since
Year 10
,Which one of the following is a way to improve the S/Q rating of branded pairs produced at a
particular production facility? - (answer)Increasing per model expenditures for enhanced
styling/features
If a company's actual results for revenues , net profits, EPS, and ROE turn out to be worse than
projected, then it is usually because - (answer)the competitive efforts exerted by rival companies
to capture sales and market share for themselves in one or more geographic regions proved
stronger than company managers anticipated, given the updates of the regional average
competitive efforts that company managers made in the
A company cannot effectively differentiate its branded footwear from the brands of rivals and
thereby attract more buyers by - (answer)refraining from bidding on contracts to supply private
label footwear to chain retailers
The most competitively effective and very likely most profitable long-term approach to reducing
or eliminating the impact of paying tariffs on pairs imported to a company's distribution
warehouse in Europe-Africa is to - (answer)build and equip a production facility in Europe-
Africa and then expand it as may be needed to supply all (or at least most) of the pairs the
company intends to try to sell in the Europe-Africa region
,Production improvement option B (with capital costs of $1.6 million per million pairs of
production capacity and annual depreciation costs of 10%) that reduces production run setup
costs by 50% each year makes the most economic sense in which one of the following
circumstances? - (answer)Company managers expect to produce 350 models/styles and 6 million
pairs of branded footwear on an ongoing basis at a 6-million pair capacity facility in the Asia-
Pacific-annual production run setup costs for 350 models of branded footwear are $9 million
Which one of the following has a direct negative impact on a company's image rating -
(answer)decreases in the company's global average S/Q rating for branded footwear
Which of the following actions is not one of the optional initiatives that a company can include
in its social responsibility strategy to boost its image rating over the long term? - (answer)using
enviromentally friendly or green materials in producing athletic footwear
Which sets of actions are unlikely to help a company achieve a differentiation based competitive
advantage over some/many of its rivals? - (answer)Raising worker base pay by 10% or more
each year
One of the lessons about competing in a globally competitive marketplace that comes from
playing the BSG game? - (answer)competition is dynamic and always evolve
, company's management team to abandon efforts to win contracts to supply private label footwear
to chain retailers - (answer)it believes the company has a good prospects to profitability sell all
of the branded pairs it can produce
Pursuing a strategy of social responsibility and corporate citizenship - (answer)helps increase a
company's image rating/brand reputation
Which statements about striving to reduce labor costs per pair produced at each of company's
production facilities - (answer)Achieving labor costs per pair produced at a particular production
facility
which one of the following actions is usually a dependable and appealing way for manger to try
to boost their company's EPS - (answer)repurchase shares of the company's common stock
The Time Series competitive Efforts section of the CIR which provides every company's
management team with a means - (answer)drawing conclusions about what level of competitive
effort
The managerial value of regularly consulting the data in the Year to Year Performance Highlights
report has to do with the data provided being the quickest and best way - (answer)review the