A Manager Recently Decided to Ask Employees to Work Overtime

question 100

Multiple Choice

A manager recently decided to ask employees to work overtime. The alternative was to hire additional workers. He is now monitoring the consequences of his decision. This is an example of _____.

• A) planning
• B) decision-making
• C) organizing
• D) controlling
• E) leading

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Definitions:

Behavior

How a person or a group acts or responds when influenced by stimuli from the environment or from within themselves.

Individual Piece-Rate System

A compensation system where employees are paid based on the number of units they produce or tasks they complete.

Fixed Ratio Schedule

is a type of reinforcement schedule in behaviorism where a response is reinforced only after a specified number of correct responses.

Reinforcement

In behavioral psychology, a consequence that strengthens an organism's future behavior whenever that behavior is preceded by a specific antecedent stimulus.