You are an employer seeking to fill a vacant position on an assembly line.

1. Are you more concerned with the average product of labor or the marginal product of labor for the last person hired? If you observe that your average product is just beginning to decline, should you hire any more workers? What does this situation imply about the marginal product of your last worker hired? 2. What types of decisions are you going to be making about your company in terms of how many workers to hire?