Which of the Following Techniques Would You Not Recommend to a Company

question 42

Multiple Choice

Which of the following techniques would you not recommend to a company desiring a stronger recruiting strategy?

• A)Look inside the company first - a promotion-from-within policy serves as an incentive for existing workers to upgrade their skills.
• B)Encourage employee referrals - reward employees for successful referrals.
• C)Ensure that your recruitment efforts are known - whether in traditional media, the Internet, or on college campuses.
• D)Avoid hiring retired workers - they too often fail to have anything to offer.

Determine a company's leverage and risk through debt-to-equity ratio, equity multiplier, and times interest earned ratio.

Understand the implications of earnings per share, price-earnings ratio, dividend payout ratio, and dividend yield ratio.

Calculate and interpret the book value per share.

Analyze investment ratios such as the dividend payout ratio and the dividend yield ratio.

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Definitions:

Risky Shift

The phenomenon where groups tend to make riskier decisions than individuals would make alone.

Psychology Of Persuasion

The study of how people are influenced to change their attitudes or behaviors by messages and approaches within a contextual setting.

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Foot-In-The-Door Technique

A persuasion strategy whereby agreement with a small request increases the likelihood of compliance with a larger request later.