The General Manager (Scenario)

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The General Manager (Scenario)
Jamal is the general manager of a production facility. In a routine day, Jamal might meet with city officials or civic leaders about environmental issues, due to the plants presence in the community. After these meetings, he will then meet with the plant's functional managers to discuss the concerns expressed by the city representatives. Other times, Jamal might meet with the production manager, Basma, and the human resource manager, Rana, to discuss a complaint filed by one of the employees in a production department. Jamal might also spend time on the Internet looking for new technologies that can be used in the production processes of his plant.
-When Jamal gains information from city officials or civic leaders to learn how the plant's operations may be affecting the environment, he is performing which management role?

• A) monitor
• B) entrepreneur
• C) resource allocator
• D) leader

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Definitions:

Economies of Scale

The economic benefits that companies gain from their size of operations, usually with the expense for each produced unit going down as the production volume goes up because fixed expenses are distributed across a larger number of units.

Range of Output

The spectrum of production output levels within a manufacturing or production process, from minimum to maximum, based on capacity, demand, and resource availability.

Diseconomies of Scale

Phenomena that occur when a company or business grows so large that the costs per unit increase, leading to inefficiency and increased per-unit costs.