Merchargy is a firm that supplies garments to apparel stores. merchargy discovered that one of its customers, apricoress, a large apparel store, had been selling the products sourced from merchargy at exorbitant rates. as this was a violation of their trade contract, merchargy filed a suit against apricoress on the grounds of fraud and won the case. apricoress incurred huge losses because of the compensation it had to pay merchargy. in the context of the general environment, this scenario best illustrates the effect of the on organizations.
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Employee engagement is considered a key workplace attitude that can us to understand how an organization is doing. engaged employees can be described as those that "give their all" at work. this activity is important because it will you recognize some of the factors that contribute to, and some of the outcomes of, employee engagement. as a manager, this knowledge will you to foster a work environment where your employees are more engaged. the goal of this exercise is for you to demonstrate your understanding of the factors and outcomes of employee engagement. for each factor listed below, decide whether it is a factor that increases employee engagement, a factor that decreases employee engagement, or an outcome of employee engagement.

howard, fine, & howard is an advertising agency. the firm uses an activity-based costing system to allocate overhead costs to its services. information about the firm's activity cost pool rates follows: stooge company was a client of howard, fine, & howard. recently, 7 administrative assistant hours, 3 new ad campaigns, and 8 meeting hours were incurred for the stooge company account. using the activity-based costing system, how much overhead cost would be allocated to the stooge company account?

What do you recommend adam do to increase production in a business setting that does not seem to value high productivity?