Amanager wants to motivate the maintenance staff to be more productive. she starts by providing training and assures employees that high productivity will be rewarded. employees are asked to identify the rewards that would mean the most to them. the manager likely subscribes to which theory of motivation?

Recently, algonquin books partnered with barnes & noble to offer a unique if you purchase one of 12 paperback books published by algonquin, you can choose one of 12 e-books for $3 (a much lower price than a regular e-book). the goal is to increase traffic in bookstores.

Sunset foods relies on a highly centralized functional structure to ensure consistency in the quality and taste of its products and to drive down costs via process innovations. however, as a consequence of its highly compartmentalized structure, the firm has found it difficult to transfer information and ideas from one department to the next. with the launch of its new line of breakfast foods coming up, how can sunset improve its ability to collaborate without sacrificing the benefits of its current structure

Wisconsin snowmobile corp. is considering a switch to level production. cost efficiencies would occur under level production, and after tax costs would decline by $36,000, but inventory would increase by $300,000. wisconsin snowmobile would have to finance the extra inventory at a cost of 13.5 percent.a. determine the extra cost or savings of switching over to level production. should the company go ahead and switch to level production? b how low would interest rates need to fall before level production would be feasible?