UPS Carefully Measures the Routes and Routines of Its Drivers

question 21

Multiple Choice

UPS carefully measures the routes and routines of its drivers to establish the times expected for each delivery. When a delivery manifest is scanned as completed, the driver's time is registered in an electronic performance log that is closely monitored by supervisors. UPS is using __________ comparisons.

• A) historical
• B) engineering
• C) logistical
• D) relative

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Definitions:

Pure Capitalism

An economic system characterized by private ownership of the means of production, minimal government intervention, and the free market determining prices and distribution of goods.

Communism

A political and economic ideology advocating for a classless society in which the means of production are owned collectively.

Market Economy

An economic system where economic decisions and the pricing of goods and services are guided solely by the aggregate interactions of a country's citizens and businesses with minimal government intervention.

Command System

A method of organizing an economy in which property resources are publicly owned and government uses central economic planning to direct and coordinate economic activities; socialism; communism. Compare with market system.