How Does a Profit-Sharing Plan Differ from a Scanlon-Type Gainsharing

question 67

Multiple Choice

How does a profit-sharing plan differ from a Scanlon-type gainsharing plan?

• A) Employees receive more financial compensation.
• B) Employees do not necessarily have an increase in responsibility or accountability.
• C) Profit-sharing plans have a specifically assigned coordinator.
• D) Employees do less to increase organizational loyalty.

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Definitions:

Occasion-Setting Properties

Stimuli or contexts that signal the availability of reinforcement or punishment, influencing how an organism responds to other stimuli.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus, begins to elicit a conditioned response.

Lock Conditioning

A method of conditioning where the conditioned stimulus locks the response until the unconditioned stimulus is presented, although this term is not traditionally used in psychological literature, it seems to be a misunderstanding or miscreation.

Conditional Discrimination Task

A learning task where subjects learn to make distinctions between stimuli or responses based on conditional cues or contexts.