You Own a High-Tech Manufacturing Entity

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Multiple Choice

You own a high-tech manufacturing entity. You would like to expand your operations but to do so you need to either lease or buy a $1.2 million piece of equipment for the next three years. The lease
Payments would be $475,000 a year for the three years. If the equipment is purchased, it will be
Depreciated straight-line to zero over the three-year period. The equipment will have no residual
Value at the end of the three years. Should the equipment be leased, the lessor and the lessee will
Both have marginal tax rates of 34%. The loan rate for your firm for this purpose is 8% pre-tax.
What is the break-even lease payment amount?

• A) $34,313
• B) $32,068
• C) $43,063
• D) $49,150
• E) $52,789

Evaluate the impact of employee empowerment and education on workplace efficiency and innovation.

Understand the principles and outcomes of quality management programs and their role in workplace efficiency.

Explore the effects of traditional and modern workplace structures on flexibility, employee participation, and labor relations.

Understand the historical arguments for worker involvement in productivity and efficiency.

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Definitions:

Outsourcing

The business practice of hiring a party outside a company to perform services and create goods that traditionally were performed in-house by the company's own employees and staff.

Project-Based

An approach focusing on projects as the primary method for instruction and learning.

Field-Based

Pertaining to or involving data structured in fields, often used in database or form contexts to organize information.

Office

A workplace location where professional or clerical duties are carried out.