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Managing For Flexibility: A Manufacturing Perspective, Ravi Kathuria
Managing For Flexibility: A Manufacturing Perspective, Ravi Kathuria
Business Faculty Articles and Research
This paper investigates managerial practices that are conducive to the management of flexibility. Using data from manufacturing plants in the United States, this paper identifies managerial practices that manufacturing managers strongly demonstrate in plants that place a high emphasis on flexibility. The results indicate that managers who pursue flexibility, emphatically engage in team building, employee empowerment, and other relationship oriented practices that generate enthusiasm among employees. These practices seemingly motivate workers to deal with the uncertainty and changes, in the form of product mix, customer delivery schedule, capacity adjustments, etc., that characterize manufacturing flexibility. Furthermore, workers are entrusted with the …
The Rise And Fall And Perhaps Rise Again Of The "Blindfold Rule" In Modified Comparative Fault Cases: A Proposed Experiment, Jordan Leibman, Robert Bennett, Richard Fetter
The Rise And Fall And Perhaps Rise Again Of The "Blindfold Rule" In Modified Comparative Fault Cases: A Proposed Experiment, Jordan Leibman, Robert Bennett, Richard Fetter
Robert B. Bennett
... Wyoming and Illinois are among the states that maintain systems of modified comparative fault. ... The experiment also provides a comparative measure of the economic effects of the four principal defensive rule regimes: (1) contributory-negligence-as-a-complete-defense; (2) pure comparative fault; (3) modified comparative fault under the blindfold rule; and (4) modified comparative fault under a sunshine rule. ... So, when the Wisconsin legislature, in 1931, enacted a modified comparative fault law, a blindfold rule automatically came into effect in cases where special verdicts were submitted. ... The language of section 1-7.2 of the statute closely followed the Wisconsin law with …