During festival season ABC Ltd. received a new order of 10,000 mobile phones to be delivered in 10 days, failing which the contract will be null and void. To complete this production manager planned to outsource the production so that order could be delivered on time. The outsourcing resulted in increase in cost by 30%
(i) Do you think the production manager performed duties effectively and efficiently?
(ii) Give any two points of difference effective and efficiency.

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(i) Effective but not efficient

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