1. What is the likely location of the Bearington Plant? What is your first impression about the work environment at the Bearington Plant? Do you perceive that the environment at the Bearington plant is like most manufacturing operations in companies? Explain. ①．Bearington Plant sits in a field, a big gray steel box without windows. Before the plant, and on the opposite side of the highway, there is a gravel road leading up a low hillside. It’s an access road to a substation about half a mile way. In addition, on the way to Bearington Plant each day, the author needs to pass another plant along the road, in front of which there is a paved parking lot—five acres of concrete with tufts of brown grass poking through the cracks.

2．Yes. Like Bearington Plant, most of manufacturing operations have a large number of machinery and equipment, and there will be one or more production managers leading their daily job. Simply the trucks bring the materials which the machines and people inside will use to make something. On the opposite side, more trucks are being filled with what they have produced. Sometimes product delivery could be delayed, and the plant is losing money. The division vice-president has to get managers together to discuss the problems from reports, and gives the order that the problem will be fixed in specific time. Then, the production manager and the staff need to follow the order and even do the overtime working to solve the problem. During problem solving the conflicts between managers and labors could appear. 2. In trying to identify the real goal of the organization, Alex Rogo assesses the merits of the value creating activities identified in the textbook. Choose two value creating activities identified in the textbook. Explain how Alex analyzes the two activities you have selected in identifying the “Goal.” What does Alex Rogo identify as the “Goal”