Morale means confidence, enthusiasm, and discipline of a person or group at a particular time.
Answer: Apart from the resources, there are three important factors for production, these are work (people or man hours available), investment (machinery and equipment needed) and organization (business planning).
Explanation: The first three factors were selected by the classical economy where Adam Smith and David Ricardo appeared, to these other organizational factors have been added, however their objective is the same, so that a company achieves the goals set, it has the task of combining these factors in the best way possible. Example: maximize man hours, use the best machinery, that the land or resources are prepared for production.
Answer:
Quantitatively, Harlan Bikes is justified in deciding to close the department, but there are other qualitative factors that need to be considered which may result in the company loosing much more that they can save if the department is closed, such as for example a decrease in employee morale, a negative signalling effect to other stakeholders, a drop in sales in related products etc.
Explanation:
A decrease in employee morale can result especially if workers in other departments are no-longer sure about their future in the company, resulting from fears of their departments being closed. This can negatively affect productivity resulting in lower profits in other department.
A negative signalling effect means that other stakeholders such as investors and creditors may start questioning managements ability to profitably run the business, and the company will be perceived as more risky. Cost of debt and cost of equity capital for example, may go up, due to this higher perceived risk, and which may reduce the number of positive net present value projects that the company can undertake due to an increase in cost of capital.
If the company carries related products in other departments, it may also see a drop in sales in those sales, which will effectively reduced the savings that are estimated to be gained from closing the division.
Answer:
They must be severely punished.
Explanation:
Common crimes earlier were more threat full to the society than any other act and that is the reason they were mentioned more.
Since, the new era has new crimes, and one of the kind is white collar crimes which happens when companies’ heads try to misguide people with false financial reports, adding more losses to avoid taxes and sometimes showing more profit to attract potential investors, now it has become even severe.
Whichever the case, both crimes ultimately effect society and its stakeholders, however, common crimes are more frequent than white collar crimes.
Hence, they must be severely punished because they are committing crimes under the disguise of an innocent professionals.
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