Which of the following actions is most likely to result from a company exploiting value-enhancing opportunities across the value chain? Select one: A. Decreasing the number of suppliers relied upon for delivering input products and services B. Increasing the number of processes involved in producing a product C. Reducing the quality of the product or service provided D. Increasing the amount of inventory carried during the fiscal period

You own a nonunion company with 93 nonexempt employees. all of these employ- ees pack books into boxes for shipment to customers throughout the united states. because of wide differences in performance, you have decided to try performance appraisal, something never done before. until now, you have given every worker the same size increase. now you want to measure performance and reward the best performers with bigger increases. without any further information, which of the five types of appraisal formats do you think would be most appropriate? justify your answer. do you anticipate any complaints, or other comments, from employees after you implement your new system?