Managers at Trendy Fashions, a large retail chain, experience conflict and organizational politics. The company's customer service ratings suffer, and managers point to other departments as the cause of the problem. The conflicts and politics further contribute to the customer service problems. The CEO of this chain hears about the appreciative inquiry process and thinks this might be a good technique to use to improve this situation. He needs more information on this process. The CEO needs to know that the first step in his appreciative inquiry change effort will begin with .

Afinancial institution, the thriftem bank, is in the process of formulating its loan policy for the next quarter. a total of $12 million is allocated for that purpose. being a full-service facility, the bank is obligated to grant loans to different clientele. the following table provides the types of loans, the interest rate charged by the bank, and the possibility of bad debt as estimated from past experience.type of loaninterest rateprobability of bad debtpersonal.140.10car.130.07home.120.03farm.125.05commercial.100.02 bad debts are assumed unrecoverable and hence produce no interest revenue either. competition with other financial institutions in the area requires that the bank allocate at least 40% of the total funds to farm and commercial loans. to assist the housing industry in the region, home loans must equal at least 50% of the personal, car, and home loans. the bank also has a stated policy specifying that the overall ratio for bad debts on all loans may not exceed .04. formulate this problem as a linear program. define your variables clearly and write all the constraints explaining the significance of each.

Harry is 25 years old with a 1.55 rating factor for his auto insurance. if his annual base premium is $1,012, what is his total premium? $1,568.60 $2,530 $1,582.55 $1,842.25

Use the information below to answer the following question. the boxwood company sells blankets for $60 each. the following was taken from the inventory records during may. the company had no beginning inventory on may 1. date blankets units cost may 3 purchase 5 $20 10 sale 3 17 purchase 10 $24 20 sale 6 23 sale 3 30 purchase 10 $30 assuming that the company uses the perpetual inventory system, determine the gross profit for the month of may using the lifo cost method.