A Manufacturing Company Wants to Encourage Its Managers to Get

question 144

Multiple Choice

A manufacturing company wants to encourage its managers to get a college degree online.To determine what programs are available,requirements for entering specific programs,and how much time and money the programs require,the company's human resource director consulted a 2002 article in a newspaper on online universities.The human resources director used .

• A)projective data
• B)a primary external data source
• C)a secondary data source
• D)data mining
• E)a primary internal data source

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