Organizational change occurs when an organization adopts a new idea or behaves differently. resistance to such change is very common and can occur for a variety of reasons. identify the most likely reason for the resistance. more and more work has been moved into katie’s job, and she has kept up with the workload. during her last two performance evaluations, her manager said she deserved to be in a higher pay grade because her responsibilities had grown, but her manager never followed through. now another position has been eliminated, and her manager is giving katie most of that person’s work. katie has decided to give her new tasks a very low priority. a. different viewpoint b. uncertainly c. distrust d. self-interest

Jimmy owns an ice cream parlor. he designs a schedule for the different tasks the employees have to perform in order to prevent monotony at work. according to the schedule, if an employee makes waffle cones on a day, he serves ice creams the next day and clears the tables on the day after that. jimmy is using the approach at his ice cream parlor.

The market yield on spice grills' bonds is 15%, and the firm's marginal tax rate is 33%. what is their shareholders' required return if the equity risk premium is 4%?

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.