Calculo De Productividad

Productividad

As part of a study for the Department of Labor Statistics, you are assigned the task of evaluating the improvement in productivity of small businesses. Data for one of the small businesses you are to evaluate is shown below. The data are the monthly average of last year and the monthly average this year. Determine the multifactor productivity using the following costs:

• Labor$8 per hour;
• Capital .83% per month of investment;
• Energy $.60 per BTU.

Average Month

Last Year This Year

Production (dozen) 1,500 1,500
Labor (hours)350 325
Capital investment ($) 15,000 18,000
Energy (BTU) 3,000 2,750

Last year productivity

Multifactor Productivity Last year=OutputCapital+Labor+Energy

MultifactorProductivity Last year=1500 dozen(2800+15124.5+1800) dollar

Multifactor Productivity Last year=0.08 dozen/dollar (0.91units/dollar)

This year productivity
Multifactor Productivity This year=OutputCapital+Labor+Energy
Multifactor Productivity This year=1500 dozen(2600+18149.4+1650) dollar
Multifactor Productivity This year=0.07 dozen/dollar (0.80units/dollar)
Según los resultados obtenidosse puede observar que el año pasado se generó una mayor productividad medida en unidades/dólar. A pesar de que la inversión de capital fue mayor en este año las horas de trabajo disminuyeron y el consumo de energía también. Las unidades de la productividad multi factor (unidades/dólar) significa que se está produciendo un n-ésimo número de unidades por cada dólar que se gasta; en este caso, seconcluye que fue más productivo el año pasado invirtiendo menos, ocupando más horas de trabajo y energía. El resultado muestra el valor prorrateado de 0.08 docenas; este expresa que por cada dólar que se gaste se va a producir 0.91 unidades.
Hard Rock case

In its 30 years of existence, Hard Rock has grown from a modest London pub to a global power managing 110 cafes, three hotels, casinos, livemusic venues, a rock museum, and a huge annual Rockfest concert. This puts Hard Rock firmly in the service industry —a sector that employs over 75% of the people in the U.S. Hard Rock moved its world headquarters to Orlando, Florida, in 1988 and has expanded to more than 40 locations throughout the U.S., serving over 100,000 meals each day. Hard Rock chefs are modifying the menu from classicAmerican—burgers and chicken wings—to include higher-end items such as stuffed veal chops and lobster tails. Just as taste in music changes over time, so does the Hard Rock Cafe, with new menus, layouts memorabilia, services, and strategies.
At Orlando’s Universal Studios, a traditional tourist destination, Hard Rock Cafe serves over 3,500 meals each day. The cafe employs about 400 people. Most areemployed in the restaurant, but some work in the retail shop. Retail is now a standard and increasingly prominent feature in Hard Rock Cafes (since close to 48% of revenue comes from this source). Cafe employees include kitchen and wait staff, hostesses, and bartenders. Hard Rock employees are not only competent in their job skills; they are also passionate about music and have engagingpersonalities. Cafe staff is scheduled down to 15-minute intervals to meet seasonal and daily demand changes in the tourist environment of Orlando. Surveys are done on a regular basis to evaluate quality of food and service at the cafe. Scores are done on a 1 to 7 scale, and if the score is not a 7, the food or service is a failure.
Hard Rock is adding a new emphasis on live music and is redesigning its...