"This Is the Third Time That Our Business Unit Has

question 47

Multiple Choice

"This is the third time that our business unit has been sold in the past five years," said Bobbi. "Each time, our managers lose their jobs, and workers like us have to learn to work under new managers and new systems. Our business unit has been just a minor piece of several large diversified companies, and our performance has been compared to other business units' performance in these companies. As a result, we have been repeatedly bought and sold based on market controls, and employees often ________ as a result."

• A) suffer
• B) benefit
• C) surrender
• D) grieve
• E) thrive

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Definitions:

Stable Internal

Characteristics or attributes within a person that are enduring and consistent across different situations, influencing behavior and attitudes.

Unstable External

Situations or factors outside an individual's control that are unpredictable and can affect their life or decisions.

External

Situated outside, coming from outside, or relating to an outer part or aspect of something.

Representativeness Heuristic

A mental shortcut where the likelihood of an object belonging to a category is judged based on how typical the object seems of that category.