B. w. meets mark, his longtime friend, after a hard day at work. he complains that he spent the whole day with performance appraisals for his subordinates. he did 8 today, 8 yesterday, and has scheduled that many more for tomorrow and the next day. a number of the sessions ended with shouting or tears. there was some minor name calling. when mark asks b. w. what was wrong with the performance appraisal system, b. w. just looks at him and says, "what could be wrong with it? it's the one i got from corporate 7 years ago? " mark, an hr professional, could make which of these suggestions to his friend?
a) attend an interpersonal skill seminar.
b) take control of the discussion. there should be no room for emotions.
c) get your supervisor to perform performance appraisals for your employees.
d) tailor the process to your needs and employees goals.
e) let your hr department do the performance appraisals.

Afirm produces a product in a competitive industry and has a total cost function (tc) of tc(q) = 60 + 10q + 2q2 and a marginal cost function (mc) of mc(q) = 10 + 4q. at the given market price (p) of $20, the firm is producing 5.00 units of output. is the firm maximizing profit? no what quantity of output should the firm produce in the long run? the firm should produce unit s) of output. (enter your response as an integer.)

Compute the cost of not taking the following cash discounts. (use a 360-day year. do not round intermediate calculations. input your final answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places.)

Suppose that two firms produce differentiated products and compete in prices. as in class, the two firms are located at two ends of a line one mile apart. consumers are evenly distributed along the line. the firms have identical marginal cost, $60. firm b produces a product with value $110 to consumers. firm a (located at 0 on the unit line) produces a higher quality product with value $120 to consumers. the cost of travel are directly related to the distance a consumer travels to purchase a good. if a consumerhas to travel a mile to purchase a good, the incur a cost of $20. if they have to travel x fraction of a mile, they incur a cost of $20x. (a) write down the expressions for how much a consumer at location d would value the products sold by firms a and b, if they set prices p_{a} and p_{b} ? (b) based on your expressions in (a), how much will be demanded from each firm if prices p_{a} and p_{b} are set? (c) what are the nash equilibrium prices?