You are a manager from the United State sent overseas to carry out an assignment in India. While there, you observe that employees seem to expect you to be more directive in your leadership style than employees in the US. What would a ethnocentric approach suggest you do?
1. Create a balanced sytle based on the employees you encounter
2. Be directive because it is the only way that will work
3. Be participative so they can learn a better way to work
4. Be both directive and participative

You decide that structural changes must be made at holden evans immediately to deal with the additional product lines. equipment and employees will have to be moved around to optimize production of all of the products in house. this shouldn't be too difficult because many of the vitamins and supplements are produced using similar processes. you have several options available to facilitate this process. which of the following methods do you think is the best choice? select an option from the choices below and click submit. because the changes may result in the loss of several key employees, you hire outside consultants who specialize in hr law. this way any employee terminations will not result in lawsuits. you select an outside consulting firm that your company has never worked with before, but it has a reputation for using new technology in product lines that are similar to yours. you select several trusted managers to facilitate the transition of operations from overseas. these individuals can gather information and also smooth any rough spots that may occur.

Galwaysc electronics makes two products. model a requires component a and component c. model b requires component b and component c. new versions of both models are released each year with updated versions of all components. all components are sourced overseas, and abc contracts annually for a quantity of each component before seeing that year’s demand. components are only assembled into finished products once demand for each model is known. for the coming year, alwaysc’s purchasing manner has proposed ordering 500,000 units of component a, 630,000 of component b, and 1,000,000 units of component c. her boss has asked why she has recommended purchasing so much of components a and b when alwaysc will not have enough of component c to fully use all of the inventory of a and b. what factors might the purchasing manager cite to explain her recommended order? explain your reasoning.

True or false: a fitted model with more predictors will necessarily have a lower training set error than a model with fewer predictors.