In a low-context culture: (multiple choice)workers get right to the task, after they take care of their social needs. relationship building is considered very important and occurs before performing business tasks. relationship building is considered a waste of time. workers get right to the task, without the need to socialize during the first ½ hour of work.

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east west sales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 ) the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss)