Author Question: Jennifer Burroughs is thinking about starting a firm in the upscale women's fashion industry. To ... (Read 389 times)

hbsimmons88 · **on:** Jul 6, 2018

Jennifer Burroughs is thinking about starting a firm in the upscale women's fashion industry.

To get a full appreciation of the competitive nature of the industry, and how she might position her products, Jennifer has spent considerable time looking at industry-related publications, Hoover's Online, and ABI-Inform, which is a database that provides access to articles covering a wide-variety of business and industry related issues. Jennifer is conducting ________ research.
A) primary
B) secondary
C) action
D) temporary
E) purposeful

Question 2

When considering HR strategies regarding employee separations, managers must consider whether to:

A) use layoffs or voluntary inducements to downsize a firm.
B) encourage decentralization or centralization of the firm to better enhance employee relations.
C) compensate long-term employees more than recent hires.
D) create rigid job descriptions to separate the responsibilities of managers and subordinates.