Dan, a human resource professional at a Denver-based company, is evaluating a candidate for a management position in Kuwait. Besides assessing the candidate’s interests, personality, and skills, Dan gives the candidate assignments that focus on cross-cultural training.
What is the purpose of these assignments?

a. They identify the candidate's personal strengths and weaknesses.
b. They assist the candidate in learning to ignore home-culture biases.
c. They reveal the candidate's motivations for accepting the assignment.
d. They enable the candidate to get out and away from the office for a little while.
e. They help the candidate to gain an appreciation of the host country's culture.

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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 following pertains to smoke, inc.’s investment in debt securities: on december 31, year 3, smoke reclassified a security acquired during the year for $70,000. it had a $50,000 fair value when it was reclassified from trading to available-for-sale. an available-for-sale security costing $75,000, written down to $30,000 in year 2 because of an other-than-temporary impairment of fair value, had a $60,000 fair value on december 31, year 3. what is the net effect of the above items on smoke’s net income for the year ended december 31, year 3?