The Time Attendance System in the Production Division at MM

question 98

Multiple Choice

The time attendance system in the production division at MM, an automobile manufacturing company, was malfunctioning. Consequently, Greg Hill, one of the front-level managers sent it for repair. In the meantime, he placed a register where all workers of the production division had to provide their time of entry and exit from office. At the end of the week, when looking through the time logs, he had certain concerns about a group of employees. In the next week, he personally tracked the time this group of employees spent working and realized that they were reporting a greater number of working hours than they actually worked. This group engaged in a barrier to communication called ________.

• A) silence
• B) filtering
• C) lying
• D) selective perception
• E) communication apprehension

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Definitions:

Social Exclusion

The process of being shut out from the social, economic, educational, or healthcare systems of society.

Telepathy

The suggested communication of information from one person to another without the use of conventional human sensory methods or direct physical contact.

Clairvoyance

A supposed psychic ability that allows a person to gain information about an object, person, location, or physical event through means other than the known human senses.

Psychokinesis

The supposed ability to move or deform inanimate objects, without any physical interactions, merely through mental focus or power.