Rock industries hired virtually all of its employees from star high school, which was overwhelmingly white in its racial makeup. accordingly, there were virtually no nonwhite employees employed by rock industries. the work that these employees performed was work that any reasonably capable high school graduate could do. when organizations representing nonwhites questioned the policy, the personnel director indicated that star high school graduates were hired because they had worked successfully for the company and because the president of the company had graduated from that school. there was no evidence that there was any plan or intention to discriminate against nonwhites. is this a violation of title vii of the civil rights act?

a. no, the employer has a right to select the employees as they see fit.
b. no, the law was not intended to discriminate.
c. yes, hiring from star high school is a business necessity.
d. yes, this apparently neutral policy has a disparate impact on a protected group.

Which of the following is an example of formal management controls? answers: a firm's culturethe willingness of employees to monitor each otherbudgeting and reporting activitiesmanagerial motivation

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.

Issued to the joint planning and execution community (jpec) initiates the development of coas; it also requests that the supported ccdr submit a commander's estimate of the situation with a recommended coa to resolve the situation (joint force command and staff participation in the joint operation planning and execution system, page 10)