6. Answer the following questions
1. What did you notice about the workers in the video?
2. What were Henry Ford’s goals?
3. What was different about the Model T?
4. What was wrong with Henry Ford’s original process for
manufacturing the Model T?
5. What was Ford’s revolutionary idea?
6. How did it change production of the Model T?
7. What happened to prices of cars?
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9. Production report
1.Count: How many finished bookmarks did you make?
2.Calculate: # bookmarks/# workers to get worker productivity
1.Calculate: 10 minutes/worker productivity to get worker-
minutes/bookmark
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11. Production line debrief
1.How did the number of bookmarks produced on the assembly
line compare to the number you made as individuals?
2.Which assembly line tested by the class was most productive? In
other words, which one produced the most bookmarks per worker?
3.Why did this assembly line produce more than the others?
4.Which group made the best quality bookmarks?
5.What were the advantages of producing bookmarks using an
assembly line?
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12. Production line debrief
6.What were disadvantages of producing bookmarks using an
assembly line?
7.Are there any additional tools or capital goods that would have
helped you speed up the process even more?
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20. JOB SPECIALIZATION
▰ Breaking jobs into small tasks
▰ Jobs are simple, easy to learn, and economical
▰ Can lead to boredom, low satisfaction, high
absenteeism, and employee turnover
.
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29. REASONS FOR SPECIALIZATION
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● The country has the resources required to
produce certain goods.
● The country has abundant resources
● By trading, to acquire certain goods more cheaply
than they can produce them domestically.
32. Disadvantage OF SPECIALISATION
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Cost
05
● Workers with highly specialized skills
tend to face very high salary demands
Lack of variety for
consumers
04
● Can leads to standardized, mass-produced
goods.
Low labour mobility
03
● Can reduce the economic efficiency and
international competitiveness on the
country.
High labour turnover
02
● Occurs if lots of workers choose to leave
their jobs in search of more challenging
and less boring one.
Overspecialisation
01
● Can cause structural and regional
unemployment
33. ACTIVITY
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● Research on one country that specialises in
primary, secondary and tertiary sector.
● Explain how the concept of specialisation can
explain why nations trade with each other.
● “Specialisation in international trade always
benefits nations.’ Discuss this statement.