The cost to research and develop, design and market new models would be considered a product-level cost

Architects of mergers and acquisition strategies typically set sights on which of the following objectives?

a. revamping a company's value chain b. facilitating the employment of both offensive and defensive strategies c. creating a more cost-efficient operation, expanding a company's geographic coverage, and extending a company's business into new product categories d. gaining quick access to new technologies or other resources and competitive capabilities, and leading the convergence of industries whose boundaries are being blurred by changing technologies and new market opportunities e. Two answers are correct: creating a more cost-efficient operation, expanding a company's geographic coverage, and extending a company's business into new product categories, and gaining quick access to new technologies or other resources and competitive capabilities, and leading the convergence of industries whose boundaries are being blurred by changing technologies and new market opportunities

Four of the components of job design are:

A) employment stability, work schedules, work sampling, and motivation & incentive systems. B) job specialization, job expansion, psychological components, and self-directed teams. C) labor specialization and enrichment, motivation and incentive systems, employment stability, and work sampling. D) ergonomics and work methods, method time measurement, work schedules, and incentive systems. E) labor specialization, time studies, work sampling, and pre-determined time standards.