The Dulac Box plant produces wooden packaging boxes

The Dulac Box plant produces wooden packaging boxes to be used in the local seafood industry. Current operations allow the company to make 500 boxes per day, in two 8-hour shifts (250 boxes per shift). The company has introduced some moderate changes in equipment, and conducted appropriate job training, so that production levels have risen to 300 boxes per shift. Labor costs average $10 per hour for each of the 5 full-time workers on each shift. Capital costs were previously $3000 per day, and rose to $3200 per day with the equipment modifications. Energy costs were unchanged by the modifications, at $400 per day. You have been asked to prepare a research paper that addresses the following elements: • What is the firm's multifactor productivity before and after the changes? • Why is it important to be aware of the productivity changes? • Analyze implications of changes in the parameters of the productivity calculation. • Evaluate application of productivity concept in terms of the firm's business operational goals and requirements. Present your findings as a 4 pages Word document formatted in APA style. Submitting your assignment in APA format means, at a minimum, you will need the following: 1. TITLE PAGE. Remember the Running head: AND TITLE IN ALL CAPITALS 2. ABSTRACT. A summary of your paper…not an introduction. Begin writing in third person voice. 3. BODY. The body of your paper begins on the page following the title page and abstract page and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The type face should be 12-pt. Times Roman or 12-pt. regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics except as required for APA level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 4 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. A variety of academic sources is encouraged. 4. REFERENCE PAGE. References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format using appropriate spacing, hang indention, italics, and upper and lower case usage as appropriate for the type of resource used. Remember, the Reference Page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.