According to Laszlo Bock, Google believes in hiring the best talent from the start rather than hoping to develop mediocre talent over time. As such, Google's talent management strategy focuses more money on employee selection than relative to most other companies. a. training b. compliance c. outsourcing d. compensation

Goals that are overly ambitious can discourage employees and decrease motivation, yet the idea of stretch goals is proposed as a way to get people fired up and motivated. as a manager, how might you decide where to draw the line between a “good” stretch goal and a “bad” one that is unrealistic?

Kinc. has provided the following data for the month of may: inventories: beginning ending work in process $ 17,000 $ 12,000 finished goods $ 46,000 $ 50,000 additional information: direct materials $ 57,000 direct labor cost $ 87,000 manufacturing overhead cost incurred $ 63,000 manufacturing overhead cost applied to work in process $ 61,000 any underapplied or overapplied manufacturing overhead is closed out to cost of goods sold. the adjusted cost of goods sold that appears on the income statement for may is:

Your company is starting a new r& d initiative: a development of a new drug that dramatically reduces the addiction to smoking. the expert team estimates the probability of developing the drug succesfully at 60% and a chance of losing the investment of 40%. if the project is successful, your company would earn profits (after deducting the investment) of 9,000 (thousand usd). if the development is unsuccessful, the whole investment will be lost -1,000 (thousand usd). your company's risk preference is given by the expected utility function: u(x) v1000 +x, where x is the monetary outcome of a project. calculate the expected profit of the project . calculate the expected utility of the project . find the certainty equivalent of this r& d initiative . find the risk premium of this r& d initiative e is the company risk-averse, risk-loving or risk-neutral? why do you think so?