Resser Corporation Manufactures Serving Trays and Utensils for Use by Airlines

question 24

Essay

Resser Corporation manufactures serving trays and utensils for use by airlines for meal service.Several airlines order these products in large quantities.Resser had adopted an activity-based management philosophy.Listed below are the principal activities of the company.
$\begin{array}{ll}\text { Product inspection } & \text { Product marketing } \\\text { Product packaging } & \text { Accounting } \\\text { Materials storage } & \text { Moving work in process }\\\text { Product engineering } & \text { Inventory control } \\\text { Product scheduling } & \text { Production - assembly } \\\text { Materials purchasing } & \text { Production area clean up }\\ \text { Production -machine setup } & \text { Human resources services } \\\text { Building maintenance } & \text { Product rework } \\\text { New product design } & \text { Depreciation of building }\end{array}$

a. Identify activities that are nonvalue-adding.
b. Analyze each of the nonvalue-adding activities and determine which are necessary. Suggest how each of the activities that you classified as unnecessary could be reduced or eliminated.

Recognize the impacts of perceptual biases and errors such as the fundamental attribution error.

Realize the importance and effects of attribution on personal and organizational level.

Understand how perceptual differences can explain varied behaviors in similar situations.

Grasp the significance of Feng Shui and other cultural practices on business and personal environments.

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