Parminder Singh supervises the sheet metal shop at Globetrotter Airlines. One of his employees was late for the second time this week and, in accordance with company policy, Parminder warned him that if he was late again he would be sent home without pay for the day. According to Luthans, Hodgetts, and Rosenkrantz, Parminder is performing which of the following managerial activities?

On the Internet, price can easily be adjusted to meet changes in the marketplace. This is called ________

A) captive pricing B) dynamic pricing C) basing-point pricing D) price bundling E) freemiums

Big Mutual Insurance Company would like to take advantage of financial services deregulation by acquiring a bank and a stock brokerage firm

Big Mutual, however, would have trouble raising the funds needed to make these acquisitions under the mutual form of organization. Big Mutual is planning to switch from the mutual form of organization to the stock form, and to issue shares of common stock to raise capital. This change in organizational structure is called A) mutualization. B) retrocession. C) reinsurance. D) demutualization.