Application of MBO Kay Was Excited. She Had Just Returned from a Manager's

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Application of MBO
Kay was excited. She had just returned from a manager's retreat where MBO had been discussed. This had never been used in her organization before, and she was enthusiastic about implementing the program in her department. She received the OK from her manager, the division head, who vaguely remembered having heard of the program several years earlier. Kay looked over the handout she had received. She was still somewhat confused on who was to choose the goals for the employees. However, she knew that the goals once chosen needed to be specific and have explicit time periods attached.
Even though there was a lot of work to do in order to implement the program, Kay was excited. She knew this would prove to be beneficial to the organization.
-Kay did not want her employees to see MBO as setting___________ , which might limit their thinking and achievements.

• A)unobtainable goals
• B)floors
• C)ceilings
• D)themselves up for failure

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Definitions:

Capillary Action

The ability of a liquid to flow in narrow spaces without the assistance of or even against external forces like gravity.

Hydrogen Bond

A weak attractive force existing between a hydrogen atom with a partial positive charge and an electronegative atom (usually oxygen or nitrogen) with a partial negative charge. Compare with covalent bond and ionic bond.

Van der Waals Interaction

A type of weak interaction between molecules due to transient electric dipole moments, influencing molecular structure and function.

Ionic Bond

A type of chemical bond formed through the electrical force between oppositely charged ions.