Students are working on an assignment that benefits from teamwork. Barry is a hi
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Students are working on an assignment that benefits from teamwork. Barry is a highly analytical person and Jane is a more creative individual. The following chart indicates how long it will take Barry and Jane to complete a task.
a. Indicate whether Barry or Jane have an absolute advantage completing (1) analytical tasks and (2) creative tasks.
b. Barry and Jane would like to finish the assignment that their instructor gave to them as soon as possible. Does Barry or Jane have a relative advantage in completing either of the tasks? If so, do you feel that they should focus in on their core competencies and split up the tasks to complete the assignment (assume that the ‘workload’ is 50% analytical and 50% creative).
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Analytical Creative Barry 5 hours 8 hours Jane 7 hours 10 hoursExplanation / Answer
a. Barry has cometitive advantage in both the cases; where as the absolute advantage is in Analytical process only. he can complete the task in 5 hours where as Jane takes 7 hours. the advantage is 2/5= 40%
where is in Creative work the competitive advantage of Barry is= 2/8= 25%
b. in this case Barry needs to focus on Analytical work and Jane should focus on Creative work. if they follows this, the work can be complete in early times.