Your Mother's New Husband, Al, Does Not Want Her to Work

question 48

Multiple Choice

Your mother's new husband, Al, does not want her to work. Al also controls the checkbook and discourages your mother from having any close friends. She appears to go along with this because she feels she needs a man in the house. The situation between them is known as

• A) self-disclosure.
• B) codependency.
• C) cyberbullying.
• D) maintenance.

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Definitions:

TPM

Total Productive Maintenance; a proactive maintenance approach focusing on improving equipment effectiveness and employee involvement.

TQM

Total Quality Management; a comprehensive and structured approach to organizational management that seeks to improve the quality of products and services through ongoing refinements in response to continuous feedback.

Maintenance

Activities undertaken to keep equipment or systems functioning efficiently through preventive measures or repairs.

Reliability Tactic

Strategies or practices aimed at ensuring a system or component performs its required function under stated conditions for a specified period.