Food for Families, a nonprofit organization, uses inputs such as money, groceries, and volunteer time and labor to transform food into hot prepared meals for needy families. In this setting, which of the following is a transformation process?

a) traveling abroad to find less expensive ingredients
b) giving families raw ingredients and expecting them to prepare meals themselves
c)btasting the meals to make sure they are satisfactory
d) fundraising and promoting the cause to gain new volunteers and food donations
e) paying rent for a cooking facility

Amanufacturing firm is considering overhauling the existing compensation strategy. currently every front line employee who works on the assembly line earns the same hourly wage. ideally, management would like to institute a new pay system that involves pay-for-performance. which of the following recommendations is both consistent with scientific management's general emphases and generally good advice for management of this firma. the firm should adopt a differential pay system with one pay level for average performance, and a higher level for good performance. b. the firm should adopt a differential pay system, but the firm should modify it from its original design and provide many different levels of pay associated with different performance levels. c. the firm should understand worker psychology and to focus on pay as the key motivator. d. all of the abovee. none of the above