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7-39. Message Strategies: Routine Requests (LO-2] One
of the reasons you accepted the job offer from your current
employer was the happy, relaxed vibe of the open-plan office.
When you interviewed, it seemed as far away from a boring,
conventional "cubicle farı" as you could get, which appealed to
your nonconformist instincts. After two years in the job, however,
you've experienced some of the disadvantages of the company's
relaxed attitudes toward just about every aspect of workplace
behaviour. People routinely bring pets to work, even though sev-
cral people have explained they have allergies to dogs or cats.
Some of the pers are less than ideally behaved, too, and a couple
of dogs who are frequent visitors get into snarling matches when
they see each other. One person even brings a pet bird, which
has been known to fly loose around the office. Employees bring
children of all ages to work, too, from infants still in diapers to
teenagers who play video games on mobile devices sometimes
using headphones but sometimes not. Music lovers get into vol-
ume wars at least once a week, trying to drown each other out
on their portable speaker systems.
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Laval produces lamps and home lighting fixtures. its most popular product is a brushed aluminum desk lamp. this lamp is made from components shaped in the fabricating department and assembled in the assembly department. information related to the 22,000 desk lamps produced annually follows. direct materials $280,000direct labor fabricating department (8,000 dlh × $24 per dlh) $192,000assembly department (16,600 dlh × $26 per dlh) $431,600machine hours fabricating department $15,200mhassembly department $20,850mhexpected overhead cost and related data for the two production departments follow. fabricating assemblydirect labor hours 150,000dlh 295,000dlhmachine hours 161,000mh 128,000mhoverhead cost $400,000 430,000required1. determine the plantwide overhead rate for laval using direct labor hours as a base.2. determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamp using the plantwide overhead rate.3. compute departmental overhead rates based on machine hours in the fabricating department and direct labor hours in the assembly department.4. use departmental overhead rates from requirement 3 to determine the total manufacturing cost per unit for the aluminum desk lamps.