Assignment Directions: This is a three part assessment:
Part 1: Research characteristics of the teenage market and cite the URL's where you find the information.
Part 2: Find five companies worldwide that target teens and list them with the URL's.
Part 3: Choose three of the companies and analyze the marketing mix of each company. Include the following:
• How the company caters to the teen market (what the product is, why teens like it, why teens were chosen as the
target market)
• Pricing strategies used to market the product
• Distribution of the product (how it gets to you)
• Promotion of the product (how it is advertised to entice you to want it and purchase it)

You own a nonunion company with 93 nonexempt employees. all of these employ- ees pack books into boxes for shipment to customers throughout the united states. because of wide differences in performance, you have decided to try performance appraisal, something never done before. until now, you have given every worker the same size increase. now you want to measure performance and reward the best performers with bigger increases. without any further information, which of the five types of appraisal formats do you think would be most appropriate? justify your answer. do you anticipate any complaints, or other comments, from employees after you implement your new system?