Subway is a large chain of franchise sandwich shops. marcia owns three subway stores in a large city. at the end of the year, she notes that sales rose from 2 to 5 percent over last year's sales at stores 1 and 2, but fell 2 percent at store 3. based on this information, which of the following is the best course of action as to how marcia should reward (or punish) her store managers?

Th answer is: I would reward the managers of restaurants 1 and 2

Explanation:

In my opinion Marcia should reward the two managers from restaurants 1 and 2 based upon the percentage of sales increase. She could give an X$ bonus to the manager of restaurant 1 as a prize for increasing sales by two percent. Then she could also give the manager of restaurant 2 the same X$ bonus but also give him (or her) a 3% raise.

I wouldn´t take any type of actions regarding the manager of restaurant 3. I would be let him know that I was rewarding the other managers because they performed better than him. I believe that rewards are usually more beneficial than punishments. I also believe people are selfish and greedy, so when manager 3 realizes he lost the opportunity of earning a bonus and a raise due to his poor performance, he will be motivated to work better next year.    

a manufacturer of printed circuit boards uses exponential smoothing with trend to forecast monthly demand of its product. at the end of december, the company wishes to forecast sales for january. the estimate of trend through november has been 200 additional boards sold per month. average sales have been around 1000 units per month. the demand for december was 1100 units. the company uses α = 0.20 and β = 0.10. make a forecast including trend for the month of january.

answer; whoever is willing and able to pay the price;