Business-Facing Processes Are Invisible to the External Customer but Essential

question 29

True/False

Business-facing processes are invisible to the external customer but essential to the effective management of the business and include goal setting, day-to-day planning, performance feedback, rewards, and resource allocation.

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Definitions:

Labor Service

The work performed by employees for employers, contributing to the production of goods or the provision of services in exchange for wages.

MRP = MRC Rule

The principle that to maximize profit (or minimize losses), a firm should employ the quantity of a resource at which its marginal revenue product (MRP) is equal to its marginal resource cost (MRC), the latter being the wage rate in a purely competitive labor market.

Profit-maximizing Firm

A company that adjusts its production and sales levels to achieve the highest possible profit based on its cost structure and market price.

MRP = MRC

An equality suggesting that the marginal revenue product (additional revenue from one more unit of an input) equals the marginal resource cost (cost of acquiring one additional unit of the input).