Jocelyn manages a sales team for a publishing house. sales declined in the third quarter, so jocelyn wants to determine a strategy that will increase sales and motivate her team to make end-of-year sales goals. jocelyn knows her team will need to assess the problems and what is working. jocelyn wants the sales reps to collaborate, so before bringing them to a day-long retreat, she wants to tell the sales reps that collaboration is key to their success.
in order for jocelyn's sales reps to get the most of the retreat and to best collaborate, they should come to the meeting expecting to

Prairie, inc. produces one single product. it has an annual capacity of 10,000 units, but currently uses only 80% of it. each unit is sold for $50 and requires direct material worth $30 and direct labor worth $5. manufacturing overhead cost is $10 per unit of which 70% is variable. should a special order to sell 1,000 units at $44 be accepted? yes no

The wall street journal reported that walmart stores inc. is planning to lay off 2,300 employees at its sam's club warehouse unit. approximately half of the layoffs will be hourly employees (the wall street journal, january 25-26, 2014). suppose the following data represent the percentage of hourly employees laid off for 15 sam's club stores. 55 56 44 43 44 56 60 62 57 45 36 38 50 69 65 (a) compute the mean and median percentage of hourly employees being laid off at these stores. (b) compute the first and third quartiles. (c) compute the range and interquartile range. (d) compute the variance and standard deviation. (e) do the data contain any outliers? (f) based on the sample data, does it appear that walmart is meeting its goal for reducing the number of hourly employees?

The face of a company is often that of the lowest paid employees who meet the customers. select one: true false