The Product Team for Scrubbie Soap Cannot Agree on the Best

question 53

Multiple Choice

The product team for Scrubbie Soap cannot agree on the best way to promote the new product. Each member of the team has developed successful campaigns for other products, but together the members can't seem to reach consensus on Scrubbie Soap. This is an example of which pitfall of teamwork?

• A) social loafing
• B) synergy
• C) groupthink
• D) conflict

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure that quantifies the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of data values from the mean.

Standard Normal Random Variable

A special case of the normal distribution with a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one.

Probability

The measure of the likelihood that an event will occur, expressed as a number between 0 and 1, where 0 indicates impossibility and 1 indicates certainty.

z

A standard score representing the number of standard deviations an observation or datum is above or below the mean of what is being observed or measured.