Why is organizational culture so difficult to change? a. because all culture is negative, indicating a high level of mistrust among employees. b. because it is only embraced by top management, so lower level employees have no stake in it. c. because it is difficult to change a group's shared values, attitudes, and beliefs. d. because culture is usually written into law to govern how people should behave.

The cook corporation has two divisions--east and west. the divisions have the following revenues and expenses: east westsales $ 603,000 $ 506,000 variable costs 231,000 300,000 traceable fixed costs 151,500 192,000 allocated common corporate costs 128,600 156,000 net operating income (loss) $ 91,900 $ (142,000 )the management of cook is considering the elimination of the west division. if the west division were eliminated, its traceable fixed costs could be avoided. total common corporate costs would be unaffected by this decision. given these data, the elimination of the west division would result in an overall company net operating income (loss) of: multiple choice$91,900$(64,100)$(142,000)$(50,100)