Operation management

Sales in XYZ printing company are projected to rise 20% next year and the firms 3 officers are authorizing an across the board 20% hiring increase for all departments.  This is poor managment given that:

a. forecasts are for general planning purposes and are too speculative for use in planning labor needs

b. 20% would be an aggregate firgure, but individual departmental workloads cold exceed or fall short of that rate.

c.  XYZ is engaged in job shop production and in the job shop environment forecasting is futile

d.  a 20% rise in sales would cut each departments costs by 20% not raise costs by 20%


I believe that it is either A or B