When Organizations Need Both Cooperative and Competitive Models at Work

question 17

Multiple Choice

When organizations need both cooperative and competitive models at work in a single system, which of the following strategic approaches to organizing should they consider?

• A) Coopetition
• B) Retrospection
• C) Open systems
• D) General systems

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

The method of transforming behavior intensity by administering either reinforcements or punishments.

Shaping

A method of training by which successive approximations toward a desired behavior are reinforced.

Withholding Reinforcement

is a behavioral strategy where a positive outcome or reward is not given, aiming to decrease or eliminate a certain behavior.

Extinction

In behavior psychology, the gradual disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.