Your company's hr director is a believer in trait theories of leadership. he believes that he can differentiate leaders from nonleaders by focusing on personal qualities and characteristics. the hr director plans to promote lawrence, a highly extraverted manager with a great deal of ambition and energy to the position of vp, manufacturing. he asks for your expertise in him to apply trait theory to leadership selection within your company. the director believes that because of his innate characteristics, lawrence will be highly effective at the company achieve its production goals. you advise the director against basing his decision purely on traits because

Sodas in a can are supposed to contain an average of 12 ounces. this particular brand has a standard deviation of 0.1 ounces, with an average of 12.1 ounces. if the can's contents follow a normal distribution, what is the probability that the mean contents of a six pack are less than 12 ounces?

According to the law of demand, there is an inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded. that is, the demand curve for goods and services slopes downward. why?

Case in point 2.4 attaway airlines, part two back at attaway airlines, the morning meeting ended with no agreement between dan esposito and molly kinnon. in fact, a new issue arose. molly now says that the new accounting system is entitled to the highest priority because the federal government soon will require the reporting of certain types of company-paid health insurance premiums. because the current system will not handle this report, she insists that the entire accounting system is a nondiscretionary project. as you might expect, dan is upset. can part of a project be nondiscretionary? what issues need to be discussed? the committee meets again tomorrow, and the members will look to you, as the it director, for guidance.