For Employee Stock Ownership Plans to Be Effective in Improving

question 86

Multiple Choice

For employee stock ownership plans to be effective in improving performance, they must ________.

• A) be based solely on productivity like gainsharing plans
• B) be implemented such that employees psychologically experience ownership
• C) be planned such that they are unaffected by company profitability
• D) be based on the market compensation philosophy
• E) be determined on the basis of performance appraisals and recent performance

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Definitions:

Electric Shock

A sudden discharge of electricity through a part of the body, which can cause injury or psychological impact.

Observational Learning

The process of acquiring new behaviors by watching the actions of others and the outcomes of those actions.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Systematic Desensitization

A therapeutic technique used in behavioral therapy to gradually reduce phobia, anxiety, or fear by exposing the individual to the feared object or context in a controlled manner.