Garrett and liam manage two different divisions of the same company. garrett uses ideal standards to gauge his employees’ performance, while liam uses normal standards to gauge his employees’ performance. whose employees are likely to perform better? why?

If Garrett and Liam manage two different divisions of the same company, and Garrett uses ideal standards to gauge his employees’ performance, while Liam uses normal standards to gauge his employees’ performance, then the employees who are likely to perform better are from Garrett’s team. The reason is their standards are unique and innovative.

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.