As a production manager, George is accountable for resource budgets that are highly sensitive to overtime pay rates. As a sales manager, Lucas needs to meet customer delivery schedules at all costs to avoid losing contracts that drive his commissions. The conflict that arises between these managers is the result of .A. unobtrusive power.
B. overlapping authority.
C. status inconsistencies.
D. distributed negotiation.
E. different evaluation and reward systems.

The answer to this question is Option E. different evaluation and reward systems.

Explanation:

As a production manager, George is accountable for resource budgets that are highly sensitive to overtime pay rates. As a sales manager, Lucas needs to meet customer delivery schedules at all costs to avoid losing contracts that drive his commissions. The conflict that arises between these managers is the result of different evaluation and reward systems.

E) different evaluation and reward systems.

Explanation:

In this scenario, George is evaluated according to productive standards, specially following the production budget which generally requires to minimize overtime pay.

On the other hand, Lucas is evaluated based on his sales performance, which means his team must sell the largest possible amount of goods.

The problem is that sometimes Lucas's needs will be in conflict with George's needs, e.g. A customer requires a large amount of merchandise that is not readily available. Lucas needs George to make his workers work overtime, but that would increase George's costs. Since George doesn't benefit, instead he is hurt by that overtime work, he will refuse to do it. That may result in Lucas losing that big sale.

1   all nations face the problem of scarcity because there are limited resources and unlimited wants. nations do not have enough factors of production to produce everything that their population wants. entrepreneurial resources initiate businesses to make new goods and services; labor resources produce goods and services.

2 there are four factors of production: natural resources, labor resources, capital resources, and entrepreneurial resources. natural resources are raw materials from nature that are used to produce goods. trees, water, and grains are natural resources. some natural resources, such as wheat and cattle, are renewable

3 wants

things that you do not need to have in order to survive, but would like to have

needs

things that you must have in order to survive

goods

physical products

services

tasks that a business perform for customers

resources

items that people can use to make or obtain what they need or want

determine

to settle or decide by choice of alternatives or possiblities

4 i really dont know

answer; rapid growth in buyer demand and high buyer switching cost;