When setting performance measures for incentive systems, we can say that the best measures are those that:
a. allow employers to "ratchet up" standards and base rewards on qualitative standards.
b. reduce administrative costs, determine rewards based only on quantity, and reward only exceptional employees.
c. are quantitative, simple to understand, and show a clear relationship to improved performance.
d. are qualitative, flexible, and create competition between employees?

Before you begin to compose a message, you should conduct research to collect the necessary information. to avoid frustration and inaccurate messages, be sure to consider the receiver's position. which questions should you ask yourself before determining what and how to research?

(blank) is the type of competition that occurs in a competitive market without identical producers.

Xie company identified the following activities, costs, and activity drivers for 2017. the company manufactures two types of go-karts: deluxe and basic. activity expected costs expected activity handling materials $ 625,000 100,000 parts inspecting product 900,000 1,500 batches processing purchase orders 105,000 700 orders paying suppliers 175,000 500 invoices insuring the factory 300,000 40,000 square feet designing packaging 75,000 2 models required: 1. compute a single plantwide overhead rate, assuming that the company assigns overhead based on 125,000 budgeted direct labor hours. 2. in january 2017, the deluxe model required 2,500 direct labor hours and the basic model required 6,000 direct labor hours. assign overhead costs to each model using the single plantwide overhead rate.