Critical Thinking Homework: Operations Management and Factors Affecting Productivity
Maduro Cleaning is a small organization that provides cleaning services to both residential and commercial clients. As a small organization, the owner assigns crews of two, three, or four employees to jobs each morning but the owner does not have a good method of determining a reasonable amount of time that each cleaning should take. The owner decided to keep data on job times and crew sizes in the hopes of developing a productivity measure.
Address the following requirements:
i. Calculate which of the crew sizes has the best productivity per worker, and explain your method.
ii. Evaluate your outcome and the possible reasons that would explain those results.
iii. Project what the productivity might be for a crew size of five and explain your reasoning.
Crew Size Avg: Productivity per Crew
i. 3765 square meters per day
ii. 4915 square meters per day
iii. 6309 square meters per day
Format your homework according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.