The annual amount the company spends per worker on best practices training—Apart from
compensation, the productivity of workers is significantly affected by the effort the company exerts to
train members in using the best-known footwear-making methods. You and your co-managers have
the authority to raise/lower spending for best practices training and production methods improvement.
There are potentially significant gains in worker productivity that can come from expenditures on best
practices training. However, the benefits are subject to diminishing marginal returns from spending
progressively more dollars on training. If and when the resulting productivity gains become too small to
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justify spending additional sums, you can cut back spending on training without losing any of the
previous build-up in productivity.