An Organization in Which Managers Try to Maximize the Ability

question 113

Multiple Choice

An organization in which managers try to maximize the ability of individuals and groups to think and behave creatively and thus maximize the potential for organizational learning to take place is known as:

• A)a privately held organization
• B)a learning organization
• C)a heuristic organization
• D)a groupthink organization
• E)all of these choices are incorrect

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Definitions:

Ecological Validity

A property of research such that the focus of study is something that occurs naturally outside an experimental laboratory.

Naturalistic Observation

A research paradigm in which an observer observes participants in familiar everyday contexts while ideally remaining as unobtrusive as possible.

Experiment

A test of a scientific theory in which the researcher manipulates the independent variable.

Experiment

A method of research in the sciences or social sciences in which a controlled procedure is conducted to test a hypothesis, observe effects, and establish cause and effect relationships.