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1. What are the seven layout strategies presented in this chapter?

2. What layout variables would you consider particularly important in an office layout where computer programs are written?

3. What are five core characteristics of good job design?

4. What are the differences among job enrichment, job enlargement, job rotation, job specialization, and employee empowerment?

5. Rate a job you have had using Hackman and Oldham's core job characteristics (see page 413) on a scale from 1 to 10. What is your total score? What about the job could have been changed to make you give it a higher score?

6. How do we distinguish between the types of risk in the supply chain?

7. What can purchasing do to implement just-in-time deliveries?

8. Using sources from the Internet, identify some of the problems faced by a company of your choosing as it moves toward, or operates as, a virtual organization. Does its operating as a virtual organization simply exacerbate old problems, or does it create new ones?

9. Describe the four types of inventory.

10. Identify and explain the types of costs that are involved in an inventory system.