Your information showed that Sean’s leadership style is directive. Your evaluation of the environmental contingency factors is that the degree of formalization and structure in the job tasks for the staff is high, Sean’s position power is strong, and work group relations are good. Your evaluation of the subordinate contingency factors is that the staff’s locus of control is internal, their perceived ability is high, and they do not desire authoritarian leadership. On this basis of this, what should Sean do?

At a young age, ebony's coaches were confident she had the potential to be a world-class swimmer with a future coaching career. after four years on an athletic scholarship and olympic experience under her belt, she chose a different path. with her savings and personal connections, she rented a corner building in a bustling san francisco neighborhood and pursued her dream: a surf shop business. ebony's dream was rooted in which basic right of free-market capitalism?

Pennewell publishing inc. (pp) is a zero growth company. it currently has zero debt and its earnings before interest and taxes (ebit) are $80,000. pp's current cost of equity is 10%, and its tax rate is 40%. the firm has 10,000 shares of common stock outstanding selling at a price per share of $48.00. refer to the data for pennewell publishing inc. (pp). pp is considering changing its capital structure to one with 30% debt and 70% equity, based on market values. the debt would have an interest rate of 8%. the new funds would be used to repurchase stock. it is estimated that the increase in risk resulting from the added leverage would cause the required rate of return on equity to rise to 12%. if this plan were carried out, what would be pp's new value of operations? a. $484,359 b. $521,173 c. $584,653 d. $560,748 e. $487,805

Karen is working on classifying all her company’s products in terms of whether they have strong or weak market share and whether this share is in a slow or growing market. what type of strategic framework is she using?