What Are the Ethical Implications of Adoption of Techniques Like

question 51

Essay

What are the ethical implications of adoption of techniques like JIT, flexible manufacturing, self-managed work teams, and reengineering? Do the benefits gained through the use of such techniques outweigh their costs?

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Definitions:

Marginal Physical Product

Represents the additional quantity of output that is produced by utilizing one more unit of a variable input, holding all other inputs constant.

Perfect Competitor

A Perfect Competitor refers to a market participant in a perfect competition market structure, where there are many buyers and sellers, and none can influence the market price.

Imperfect Competitor

A market participant that does not meet the criteria of a perfect competitor, often having some control over market prices due to lack of competition.

MRP

Stands for Marginal Revenue Product, which is the additional revenue produced by hiring or utilizing an additional unit of a resource.