You are one of nine partners of mobileworks, a partnership organized to manufacture and sell mobile networking devices. you receive an email from a start-up competitor, netranet, who is interested in hiring you immediately in a highly-paid leadership position. the rumor is that netranet is rapidly developing more advanced networking technology than mobileworks. you would be eager to manage the new technology. however, the mobileworks partnership agreement states that no partner can leave the partnership without giving sixty days’ notice to the other partners. you know that waiting sixty days would be too long and you would miss out on key opportunities at netranet. considering partnership law and the business implications, evaluate the decision to leave the mobileworks partnership immediately to join netranet.

Amanufacturing firm is considering overhauling the existing compensation strategy. currently every front line employee who works on the assembly line earns the same hourly wage. ideally, management would like to institute a new pay system that involves pay-for-performance. which of the following recommendations is both consistent with scientific management's general emphases and generally good advice for management of this firma. the firm should adopt a differential pay system with one pay level for average performance, and a higher level for good performance. b. the firm should adopt a differential pay system, but the firm should modify it from its original design and provide many different levels of pay associated with different performance levels. c. the firm should understand worker psychology and to focus on pay as the key motivator. d. all of the abovee. none of the above