What makes a politicized internal environment so unhealthy? a. the fact that political infighting consumes a great deal of organizational energy. b. the continuous empire-building is common practice as managers pursue their own agendas. c. the building of autonomous fiefdoms pervades the work climate. d. the overabundance of political maneuvering takes away from efforts to execute strategy. e. all of these.

Acompany that makes shopping carts for supermarkets and other stores recently purchased some new equipment that reduces the labor content of the jobs needed to produce the shopping carts. prior to buying the new equipment, the company used 6 workers, who produced an average of 79 carts per hour. workers receive $16 per hour, and machine coast was $49 per hour. with the new equipment, it was possible to transfer one of the workers to another department, and equipment cost increased by $11 per hour while output increased by four carts per hour. a) compute the multifactor productivity (mfp) (labor plus equipment) under the prior to buying the new equipment. the mfp (carts/$) = (round to 4 decimal places). b) compute the productivity changes between the prior to and after buying the new equipment. the productivity growth = % (round to 2 decimal places)

Juniper company, inc. uses a perpetual inventory system. the company purchased $9,750 of merchandise on august 7 with terms 1/10, n/30. on august 11, it returned $1,500 worth of merchandise. on august 16, it paid the full amount due. the correct journal entry to record the payment on august 16 is:

Suppose an investor starts with a portfolio consisting of one randomly selected stock. as more and more randomly selected stocks are added to the portfolio, what happens to the portfolio's risk