One of your senior sales reps comes into your office and tells you she will be leaving in two weeks. When you ask why she is choosing to leave after so many years, she informs you she is discouraged about not meeting sales goals and wants to pursue other interests. During lunch, you relate the story to a colleague. He tells you about the idea of expectancy theory and gives you several ideas for persuading the employee to stay. Which idea is most likely to work?

Seattle bank’s start-up division establishes new branch banks. each branch opens with three tellers. total teller cost per branch is $96,000 per year. the three tellers combined can process up to 90,000 customer transactions per year. if a branch does not attain a volume of at least 60,000 transactions during its first year of operations, it is closed. if the demand for services exceeds 90,000 transactions, an additional teller is hired and the branch is transferred from the start-up division to regular operations. required what is the relevant range of activity for new branch banks