BMAN30702 CORPORATE CONTRACTING AND MANAGERIAL BEHAVIOUR Exam May 2016, Questions
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BMAN30702
CORPORATE CONTRACTING AND MANAGERIAL BEHAVIOUR
24 MAY 2016
SECTION B
Answer ONE question
11. Describe and analyse the limitations of the optimal contracting approach. Provide examples for each limitation. Which one do you consider to be more important? Why? (35 marks)
12. Describe and analyse the “Basic Competitive Model” of pay levels. Critically evaluate its assumptions and predictions. Present examples when building your arguments. (35 marks)
SECTION C
Answer ONE question
13. Answer all parts below:
The following game matrix shows the strategies and payoffs to Asus and Toshiba as they choose which laptop technology to invest in.
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Toshiba’s Strategy |
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Invest in Ultrabooks |
Invest in Netbooks |
Asus’s Strategy |
Invest in Ultrabooks |
Asus gets £50 Toshiba gets £80 |
Asus gets £50 Toshiba gets £40 |
Invest in Netbooks |
Asus gets £35 Toshiba gets £45 |
Asus gets £75 Toshiba gets £48 |
a. What is the dominant strategy, if any, for Asus? Why? (5 marks)
b. What is the dominant strategy, if any, for Toshiba? Why? (5 marks)
c. Find the Nash equilibrium or Nash equilibria in this game. Explain. (10 marks)
d. Is this a coordination or a prisoner’s dilemma game? What can the players do to facilitate the achievement of a successful outcome? Explain. (15 marks)
14. Answer all parts below:
(a) You toss two coins and if you get two Heads or two Tails then I give you £1. If
only one Heads shows up then you give me £1. We play this many times. Who comes up ahead at the end of the day? (5 marks)
(b) Since the Internet became a common tool for business, employees at Pear
Stores have maintained a semi-secret web site where wages of employees are published and comparative salaries of friends at other retail stores are also published. Employees at Pear Stores have noticed that wage dispersion of similarly ranked employees has shrunk dramatically in the past five years. Why has wage dispersion shrunk? (5 marks)
(c) The owners of Football Analysts, a football consulting firm, are big believers in paying benchmark competitive wages. They pay all (non-legally specified) compensation in wages. If the employee wants a benefit, the company has an insurance program but it comes out of the paycheck. Football Analysts tends to hire very young workers just out of university. They are energetic and work hard, but after two years they tend to leave for other firms, taking valuable training lessons with them. If Football Analysts want to keep its employees, what changes should it make to the terms of employment offered to new employees? Provide a graph to support your answer. (15 marks)
(d) A lorry driver for a manufacturing firm needs to stop for refueling and vehicle inspection. He chooses to stop at a petrol station near Manchester since he knows that the petrol station manager will offer him a case of French wine to refuel and have the inspections with them (a total retail value of £324 to the driver). For refueling, and inspections, the petrol station charges £2,700, £400 more than the least expensive petrol station in the area. What has happened to the company that owns the lorry? Is there anything they can do about it? (10 marks)
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