Making sure a goal is challenging but attainable is focusing on what characteristic of goal-setting theory?

A. specific goals
B. difficult goals
C. goal acceptance and commitment
D. feedback

B. difficult goals

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Devaluation means that more of the home-country's currency is now needed to buy the same amount of a foreign currency

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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According to Hambrick and Fredrickson, which of the following elements of a strategy represents the competitive advantage of an organization?

A) arenas B) vehicles C) differentiators D) economic logic

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We are interested in determining what type of model best describes the relationship between two variables x and y.

a.For a given data set, an estimated regression equation relating x and y of the form  = b0 + b1x was developed using Excel. The results are shown below. Comment on the adequacy of this equation for predicting y. Let ? = .01. ? SUMMARY OUTPUT Regression Statistics Multiple R0.5095 R Square0.2596 Adjusted R Square0.1362 Standard Error2.0745 Observations8 ? ANOVA     ? df SS MS F Significance F Regression1 9.0536 9.0536 2.1037 0.1971 Residual6 25.8214 4.3036   Total7 34.875          ? Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P-value  Intercept2.7857 1.6164 1.7234 0.1356  x0.4643 0.3201 1.4504 0.1971  ? b.An estimated regression equation for the same data set (as in part a) of the form  = b0 + b1x + b2x2 was developed. The Excel output is shown below. Comment on the adequacy of this equation for predicting y. Let ? = .01. ? SUMMARY OUTPUT            Regression Statistics     Multiple R0.9680     R Square0.9370     Adjusted R Square0.9118     Standard Error0.6628     Observations8           ANOVA     ? df SS MS F Significance F Regression2 32.6786 16.3392 37.1951 0.0010 Residual5 2.1964 0.4393   Total7 34.875          ? Coefficients Standard Error t Stat P-value  Intercept-2.8393 0.9247 -3.0706 0.0278  x3.8393 0.4714 8.1437 0.0005  x-squared-0.375 0.0511 -7.3335 0.0007  ? c.Use the results of Part b and predict y when x = 4. What will be an ideal response?

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