Question

The Brazilian port has a dock yard staff of 300, each working 8 hrs. per day for a payroll cost of $320.00 per day and overhead expenses of $60,000.00 per day. Since the introduction of their system, the overhead has increased to $80,000.00 per day and the dock yard workers only offload 125 containers per hour and 1000 containers per day. This has been only a 3% increase from the initial processing of containers which was 121 per hour and 970 per day.

Calculate the:

(i)Single Factor Productivity

(ii) Multi-factor Productivity

Answer 1