Imagine You Are an Efficiency Consultant with Social Psychological Training

question 78

Multiple Choice

Imagine you are an efficiency consultant with social psychological training and the local pickle company asks you to help it increase individual pickle packing productivity.Considering the phenomenon of social loafing,you should recommend

• A) that the number of employees packing pickles should be increased quickly.
• B) that the number of employees packing pickles should be increased slowly over time.
• C) that the employees packing pickles should wear uniforms.
• D) that individual packing productivity be made identifiable in some way.

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