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Everything else being equal, a firm considering outsourcing would find all of the following desirable except:  

A single-channel queuing system has an average service time of 16 minutes per customer, which is exponentially distributed. The manager is thinking of converting to a system with a constant service time of 16 minutes. The arrival rate will remain the same. The effect will be to

The primary bone of contention between the efficiency and behavioral approaches is

Forecast for independent demand items is more accurate than dependent demand items

According to Little’s law, for stable systems the average number of customers in line or in the system is equal to the average customer arrival rate multiplied by the average time in line or in the system.

When choosing a forecasting technique, a critical trade-off that must be considered is between:  seasonality and cyclicality.

Forecasts based on judgment and opinion do not include: 

Why is capacity planning strategically important?

Job enrichment involves giving workers increasing level of responsibility, which is why they feel enriched.

Firms that purposely transcend national borders so that their products can be manufactured at sites all over the world are called