The videos Working Lean
Watch the videos Working Lean Part 1 and Working Lean Part 2 posted in Content section for Week 5. Take notes using the attached question sheet. 1. What were some of the positive characteristics of the proposed workplace that workers were attracted to when they decided to work at the CAMI plant? 2. What were the negative attributes of the ‘lean production’ or Kaizen system implemented at the CAMI plant that workers experienced? 3. Using the concept of unit labour costs (ulc = w/ef), how did the ‘lean production’ or Kaizen system implemented at the CAMI plant reduce unit labour costs? Discuss each component (w,e,f). 4. Do you think it would be possible to realize the positive potential that workers saw in the team production model without the negative consequences that materialized? Discuss.
Sample Solution
Physical Senses The sensation of sound occurs when the vibrations from sounds enter our ear and cause little hair like structures, called hair cells, within our inner ear to move back and forth. The hair cells transform this movement into an electrical signal that the brain can use. How well a person can hear largely depend on how intact these hair cells are. Once lost, they don’t grow back, and this is no different for blind people. So blind people can’t physically hear well than others. Yet blind people often outperform sighted people in hearing tasks such as locating the source of sounds. The reason for this emerges when we look beyond the sensory organs, at what is happening with the brain, and how the sensory information is processed by it. In blind people, the visual cortex gets a bit “bored” without visual inputs and starts to “rewire” itself, becoming more responsive to information from the other remaining senses.
The EA (2010) clearly insists that a school must take action to enable or encourage a student with a disability to overcome a disadvantage. Schools must take effective action to help disabled students including SEN to meet their needs. Schools must also identify areas where activity by disabled students is disproportionately low compared to non-disabled students and take action to encourage them to participate in this activity.
Hills (2012), states that it is never unlawful discrimination to treat a pupil with a disability more favourably than a non-disabled student pupil because of their disability.
‘A non-disabled student cannot bring a claim of discrimination against the school in this case. This is called ‘positive action’. It means a school can lawfully provide additional education, benefits, facilities or services, separate facilities, targeted resources or opportunities to benefit pupils with disabilities only, and your school can offer them on more favourable terms’. Hills (2012 p 27)