When Implementing a Lean System

question 50

Multiple Choice

When implementing a lean system:

• A) managers can mitigate some of the effects of worker stress by judiciously using safety stocks and emphasizing material flows rather than worker pace.
• B) management should base the reward system on production volume.
• C) the plant layout is the only environmental characteristic that need not be analyzed.
• D) it is critical to develop a master production schedule that changes frequently as forecasts change.

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Definitions:

Latency

In psychoanalytic theory, a period of childhood development characterized by the sublimation of instinctual drives; it is considered a phase of relative psychological calm.

Oral Stage

The first phase in Freud's psychosexual development theory, where an infant's pleasure centers are in the mouth, leading to behaviors like sucking and biting.

Fixated

The psychological state or condition of being obsessively focused or attached to a person, thing, or idea.

Latency

The period of delay or the time between the initiation of an action or process and its effect or outcome.