Which of the Following Firms Would Have the Strongest Incentive

question 61

Multiple Choice

Which of the following firms would have the strongest incentive to adopt a job sharing plan?

• A)The ABC Company wants to simplify its hiring and training procedures.
• B)The CDE Corporation wants to offer employees more flexibility in the types of fringe benefits they receive.
• C)EFG Clothiers wants to reduce the span of control of its supervisors.
• D)GHI Health Services wants to reduce absenteeism and tardiness.

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Definitions:

Emotional Preference

A term indicating an individual's tendency to favor decisions or reactions based on emotions rather than rational analysis.

Robert Zajonc

A psychologist known for his work on the mere-exposure effect and social facilitation, focusing on the interplay between feeling and thinking.

Emotion Precedes Cognition

The theory or observation that emotional responses can occur independently and prior to cognitive processing of a stimulus or situation.

Spillover Effect

refers to the phenomenon where an occurrence in one domain of life affects another, for example, stress from work impacting family life.