Given an Employee Cost of Effort Function (Where E Is

question 20

Short Answer

Given an employee cost of effort function (where e is given in hours worked per week and each unit of e produces an extra $100 in sales):

If the firm offers a salary-plus-commission job of $500 per week plus 20% of sales,how can we write the employee's payoff function? What is the employee's total compensation for working a 46 hour workweek (Note: This is the compensation and not payoff net of effort costs)?

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