If Productivity Increased in a Factory After All of Its

question 6

Multiple Choice

If productivity increased in a factory after all of its employees were switched to a work schedule consisting of four 10-hour days, should management really credit the schedule switch with the improvement?

• A) Yes
• B) Yes, but only if no workers had left the factory
• C) No. There are too many threats to validity to draw that conclusion
• D) No. You would need to conduct a survey to be sure.

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