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Marci spends 11 hours researching and writing a 27-page report for her philosoph

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Question

Marci spends 11 hours researching and writing a 27-page report for her philosophy class Jack brags that he has a "streamlined process for performing the researching and writing Jack takes just 10 hours to research and write the paper, but his report is only 30 pages long a. The output is The input is Marcis productivity is (Enter your response rounded to two decimal places ) Jack's productivity is (Enter your response rounded to two decimal places) This is a productivity measure at are the limitations of using productivity measures to evaluate Marcis and Jack's performance? O A. The quality of the work is not assessed O B. The productivity measures increase proportionally to time needed for research. Time needed for the research is not given. The productivity measure should be greater than 1 OC. D.

Explanation / Answer

The output is NUMBER OF PAGES OF REPORT

The input is NUMBR OF HOURS of RESEARCH

Marci’s productivity is = Number of pages of report / Number of hours of research = 27/11 = 2.45 pages report per hour of research

Jack’s productivity is = Number of pages of report / Number of hours of research = 30/10 = 3 pages per hour of research

This is a LABOR productivity measure

The productivity measures calculated above only highlights the QUANTITATIVE aspect and does not take into account QUALITATIVE aspect of the job since QUALITY in this case cannot be measured.

ANSWER : A) THE QUALITY OF WORK IS NOT ASSESSED

ANSWER : A) THE QUALITY OF WORK IS NOT ASSESSED