In 1977, two years after graduating from Yale Law School, Mr. Hyatt founded the firm Hyatt Legal Services with two other lawyers. By 2003, the company had expanded to 200 offices in twenty-two states. With growth, the company has found it easy to recruit staffers; however, it has faced other problems, most noticeably dissatisfaction among staff lawyers. Recently staffers in seven Minneapolis regional offices revolted, writing a memo protesting the firm's emphasis on generating fees at the expense of quality legal work. Mr. Hyatt fired the dissenters. His action toward the dissenters indicates the use of? a. positive reinforcement.
b. punishment.
c. collaboration.
d. negative reinforcement.
e. extinction

All of the following led to the collapse of the soviet economy except a. a lack of worker incentives. c. inadequate supply of consumer goods. b. a reliance on production quotas. d. the introduction of a market economy.

"jake’s roof repair has provided the following data concerning its costs: fixed cost per month cost per repair-hour wages and salaries $ 20,900 $ 15.00 parts and supplies $ 7.70 equipment depreciation $ 2,800 $ 0.35 truck operating expenses $ 5,720 $ 1.60 rent $ 4,690 administrative expenses $ 3,850 $ 0.50 for example, wages and salaries should be $20,900 plus $15.00 per repair-hour. the company expected to work 2,600 repair-hours in may, but actually worked 2,500 repair-hours. the company expects its sales to be $47.00 per repair-hour. required: compute the company’s activity variances for may."

2. the external environment (connect)choose whether each example belongs in the general, task, or internal environment. exampleenvironmenta worldwide recession task environment / general environment / internal environmentlocal mothers asking their community grocery store to carry no-salt cheerios-type cereal for their babies task environment / general environment / internal environmentchoose the phrase that best completes the following sentence. the relationship between the task environment and the general environment is best described as: a one-way system: changes in the task environment affect the general environment, but changes in the general environment do not affect the task environment. an open system: changes in the task environment affect the general environment, and changes in the general environment affect the task environment. a one-way system: changes in the general environment affect the task environment, but changes in the task environment do not affect the general environment. a closed system: changes in the general environment do not affect the task environment, and changes in the task environment do not affect the general environment.©bloomberg via getty imagesmanagement in the newsin april 2010, the explosion of british petroleum’s (bp) deepwater horizon oil drilling rig and the accompanying oil spill dramatically changed the external environment in which all oil companies operate. the explosion released more oil than any other accidental spill in history and had a huge impact on the waters and surrounding communities of the gulf coast. the conditions that led to the spill, the attempts to stop the spill, and the clean-up and aftermath of the spill prompted debates in the u. s. senate, concern on wall street, and attention from companies all over the world. match each oil spill event with a specific dimension of the general environment. eventgeneral environment dimensionbp stock prices falling 25% during the first month after the oil spill oil seeping into pelican nesting grounds, which will place the brown pelican back on the endangered species list people moving from louisiana to oklahoma to avoid the effects of the spill