A Worker at a Motorcycle Plant Comes Up with a New

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Multiple Choice

A worker at a motorcycle plant comes up with a new way to attach the fuel injection system to the motor,increasing the efficiency of the assembly process.Always on the lookout for ways to standardize procedures,managers instruct all employees to attach fuel injection systems the same way.If all workers followed the rule to the letter,every car would come off the assembly line with its fuel injection system attached in the new way and there would be no need to check exhaust pipes at the end of the line.The managers of the motorcycle plant are using ___________.

• A) bureaucratic control
• B) clan control
• C) management by objectives
• D) output control
• E) input control

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Definitions:

Number of Batches

The total count of groups or sets of items processed or produced together within a given time period, often used in manufacturing and quality control.

Activity-Based Costing

A costing method that assigns overhead and indirect costs to related products and services based on their usage of resources, providing more accurate product cost information.

Activity Cost Pools

Categories of overhead costs grouped together based on similar activities in an activity-based costing system.

Customer Margin

The profit generated from a specific customer, calculated by subtracting the costs associated with serving that customer from the revenue earned from them.