The place for management to begin in trying to change a problem culture isa. identifying facets of the present culture that are obstacles to executing the company's strategy and meeting performance targets. b. visibly praising and rewarding people who exhibit traits and behaviors that undermine the existing culture. c. instituting incentive compensation programs that generously reward employees for adopting best practices. d. spending heavily on programs to train employees in the ways and beliefs of the new culture to be implanted. e. writing a new value statement and describing in highly motivating terms the kind of culture that is needed.

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Sunset foods relies on a highly centralized functional structure to ensure consistency in the quality and taste of its products and to drive down costs via process innovations. however, as a consequence of its highly compartmentalized structure, the firm has found it difficult to transfer information and ideas from one department to the next. with the launch of its new line of breakfast foods coming up, how can sunset improve its ability to collaborate without sacrificing the benefits of its current structure

On january 8, the end of the first weekly pay period of the year, regis company's payroll register showed that its employees earned $22,760 of office salaries and $70,840 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees' salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.20%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $13,260 of federal income taxes, $1,450 of medical insurance deductions, and $860 of union dues. no employee earned more than $7,000 in this first pay period. required: 1.1 calculate below the amounts for each of these four taxes of regis company. regis’s merit rating reduces its state unemployment tax rate to 3% of the first $7,000 paid to each employee. the federal unemployment tax rate is 0.60