Managers must decide when to make decisions themselves and when they should involve a group. This activity is important because:.1. As a manager, this decision will require you to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of using group decision making. 2. The goal of this exercise is to challenge your ability to categorize the advantages and disadvantages of group decision making.

Which of the following statements is not correct? the stock of publicly owned companies must generally be registered with and reported to a regulatory agency such as the sec. when stock in a closely held corporation is offered to the public for the first time, the transaction is called "going public, or an ipo," and the market for such stock is called the new issue or ipo market. "going public" establishes a firm's true intrinsic value and ensures that a liquid market will always exist for the firm's shares. if you wanted to know what rate of return stocks have provided in the past, you could examine data on the dow jones industrial index, the s& p 500 index, or the nasdaq index.