Beginning in 1986, paul rangel was a sales professional for the pharmaceutical company sanofi aventis u. s. llc (s-a). rangel had satisfactory performance reviews until 2006, when s-a issued new "expectations" guidelines with sales call quotas and other standards that he failed to meet. after two years of negative performance reviews, rangel—who was then more than forty years old—was terminated as part of a nationwide reduction in force of all sales professionals who had not met the "expectations" guidelines, including younger workers. did s-a engage in age discrimination? the age discrimination in employment act (adea) is a law.

Alocal club is selling christmas trees and deciding how many to stock for the month of december. if demand is normally distributed with a mean of 100 and standard deviation of 20, trees have no salvage value at the end of the month, trees cost $20, and trees sell for $50 what is the service level?

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Garrett is an executive vice president at samm hardware. he researches a proposal by a larger company, maximum hardware, to combine the two companies. by analyzing past performance, conducting focus groups, and interviewing maximum employees, garrett concludes that maximum has poor profit margins, sells shoddy merchandise, and treats customers poorly. what actions should garrett and samm hardware take? a. turn down the acquisition offer and prepare to resist a hostile takeover. b. attempt a friendly merger and use managerial hubris to improve results at maximum. c. welcome the acquisition and use knowledge transfer to impart sam hardware's management practices. d. do nothing; the two companies cannot combine without samm hardware's explicit consent.