The human resource department (hr) of asterix, a large organization, recommends setting up fitness centers and conducting career planning sessions to enhance the overall progress of its employees. the management of the company believes that the employees should be happy and personally fulfilled on the job. in the given scenario, the recommendation of the hr department, if executed, will most likely asterix achieve the human resource management goal of
a. promoting ethnocentric practices in the workplace
b. complying with social obligations
c. promoting individual growth and development
d. adhering to legal business guidelines
c. promoting individual growth and development

Match the various steps in the creative process undertaken by the ad agency for developing the campaign for wpu, to the steps in young's model of the creative process. creative process in developing wpu's campaignyoung's modelafter intensive analysis of the data and several rounds of brainstorming, the agency executives decided to take a break from this project (the wpu campaign), and instead work on a different client's project before tackling the wpu project again. using a combination of animatics and storyboards, the ad agency conducted research with a representative sample of sixty target consumers to pretest the campaign theme and the creative execution. during a brainstorming session in the creative department, a copywriter's suggestion for a slogan for wpu was recognized as an excellent central idea that could drive the campaign for wpu. the account planning, account management and creative departments at the ad agency had a series of meetings and brainstorming sessions to discuss the creative brief and the results of all the primary and secondary research done with the target consumers. the account planning and the account management groups at the ad agency conducted primary research with a representative sample of the target segment and also studied secondary research data to gain insights required for the campaign development process.

You are working on a bid to build two city parks a year for the next three years. this project requires the purchase of $249,000 of equipment that will be depreciated using straight-line depreciation to a zero book value over the three-year project life. ignore bonus depreciation. the equipment can be sold at the end of the project for $115,000. you will also need $18.000 in net working capital for the duration of the project. the fixed costs will be $37000 a year and the variable costs will be $148,000 per park. your required rate of return is 14 percent and your tax rate is 21 percent. what is the minimal amount you should bid per park? (round your answer to the nearest $100) (a) $214,300 (b) $214,100 (c) $212,500 (d) $208,200 (e) $208,400

Your dormitory, griffingate, has appointed you central banker of its economy, which deals in the currency of wizcoins. assume that the velocity of wizcoins in griffingate is constant at 10,000 transactions per year. right now, real gdp is 1,000 wizcoins, and there are 2,000 wizcoins in existence.