Reference no: EM13152986
"Organization in Concept and Practice"
• Analyze the potential downfalls of any team effort (e.g., free riders) and make at least one recommendation for minimizing risk. Provide specific examples to support your response.
• Describe a company you would like to start and determine which form of ownership would be most appropriate given your current financial status. Explain your rationale.
1. Why does the assumption of independence of risks matter in the examples of insurance? What would happen to premiums if the probabilities of houses burning were positively correlated? Can you think of a situation where they might be negatively correlated?
2. Small firms can discover the abilities of their workers more quickly than large onesbecause they can observe the workers more closely at a variety of tasks. Does itthen make sense for people with high abilities to go to small firms? Give somereasons why and some reasons why not.
3. In some ways monitoring is easier in a partnership than a corporation, whereshareholders monitor directors. In what ways is monitoring easier? In what ways isit not?
4. A friend convinces you that she has a great idea for a business, and the two of youincorporate. You supply her with funds and let her make all of the executivedecisions. Under the agreement you hold 30 percent of the firm's stock and yourfriend holds 70 percent. Why should you ever put yourself into a position whereyour friend's decision will carry the day, whether you agree with her or not? Whatdoes this tell you about problems that allegedly stem from separation of ownershipand control?
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Impact of different management styles
: Assessing the impact of different management styles on the motivation and productivity of employees best illustrates the professional concerns of what?
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What is the gene order
: Consider three genes P, Q and R, that have the following distances in map units: P-Q = 3 m.u; P-R = 7 m.u; and Q-R = 10 m.u. What is the gene order?
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What is the short-run market supply curve
: Assuming that all of each firm's $16 fixed cost is sunk, what is a firm's short-run supply curve?. What is the short-run market supply curve? c. Determine the short-run equilibrium price and quantity in this industry.
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Explain is the threat of being shot by a hunter
: Is the threat of being shot by a hunter. Hazards associated with hunters. Then why is hunting allowed? Suits in the deep woods?
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Analyze the potential downfalls of any team effort
: Describe a company you would like to start and determine which form of ownership would be most appropriate given your current financial status. Explain your rationale.
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Determining the cash balance
: At November 1, 2010, Myers Enterprises reported a cash balance of $60,000. During the month, Kern collected cash of $20,000 and made disbursements of $35,000. At September 31, 2010, what is the cash balance?
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How can the footprints on the two strands be different
: You have determined the DNA- binding site of a protein by determining the DNA footprinting after labeling one strand. To check your results, you repeat the experiment after labeling the other strand of the duplex.
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What is a synapomorphy
: What is a synapomorphy?(1) Why are phylogenetic trees built using synapomorphies?(2) What are the problems with using all derived characters?(1) With any shared character?(1)
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What is the firm''s profit-maximizing output level
: What is the firm's profit-maximizing (or loss minimizing) output (Q) level? What is the amount of its economic profits (or losses) at this output level? What would be the firm's decision at this price/output level?
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