Store #34 of CDA Hardware Associates Has Had Below Average

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Essay

Store #34 of CDA Hardware Associates has had below average sales over the past few years. As head of franchise operations, you are concerned with the continued low sales volume. The store manager wants you to diagnose the problem and recommend possible causes. Use the MARS model of individual behaviour and performance to provide four different types of reasons why employees at Store #34 might be performing below average. Provide one example for each type of explanation.

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Definitions:

Narrow Sense Heritability

A measure of how much of the variance in a trait among individuals in a population is due to additive genetic factors.

Neck Length

A physical trait referring to the distance from the base of an animal's skull to its shoulders, significant in studies of natural selection and adaptation.

Evolutionary Change

A change in the genetic composition of a population over successive generations, leading to the development of new species or variation within species.

Adaptive Evolution

The process through which populations become better suited to their environment through changes in genetic traits over generations.