Partial Productivity Measures
The Food Services manager at North Central University (NCU) was looking at data from cafeterias in four different academic schools at NCU: Business, Engineering, Humanities & Sciences (H&S), and Music. She was curious to see how the different cafeterias were performing. She had the following data from the previous semester:
|
|
Business |
Engineering |
H&S |
Music |
|
Labor hours |
14,000 |
22,000 |
31,000 |
2,100 |
|
Meals served |
38,000 |
72,000 |
114,000 |
4,500 |
Required
a. Compute the partial productivity measures for labor for the four schools.
b. Comment on the results. Are there factors other than efficiency that might affect the results?