MAR015-6 Entrepreneurship And Small Business Management

Between Magaliesburg and Muldersdrift, the quaint nursery called ‘Every Season Nursery’ can be found. This nursery is an established organisation well-known to people driving form as far as Pretoria, Sasolburg and Sandton to enjoy the day at the scenic, picturesque nursery. The main form of income is the well-kept and nurtured plants made available. However, over the past two years, mainly due to Covid-19, the nursery started to specialise in exotic plants and sell them on the internet.

Tie-break rule: to break ties in the selection of off-days, give preference to the Monday and Tuesday pair if it is one of the tied pairs. If not, select one of the tied pairs arbitrarily.

Apply the four-step procedure for developing a workforce schedule to Every Season Nursery. Your objective is to identify the two consecutive off-days for each employee with the aim to minimise the amount of total slack capacity, ultimately maximising the utilisation of staff.

Explain the steps that you follow to determine the off-day pairs for each employee.

Mark allocation: Identifying day with the maximum requirement.

• Open a word Document and name it Assignment 5 followed by your name and surname
• Create a cover/front page
• Please include a signed anti-plagiarism contract (available in your online learning guide) and submit the contract on the link provided as well.
• The assignment must be submitted on the link provided under Day 7 no later than Sunday, 23:59 (GMT +2).

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