Work Teams Enhance Speed and Efficiency When Designing and Manufacturing

question 18

Multiple Choice

Work teams enhance speed and efficiency when designing and manufacturing new products because they:

• A) allow departments to work independently of one another
• B) make possible overlapping development phases
• C) fit well with traditional sequential development phases
• D) avoid problems associated with synergy
• E) do all of these

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Definitions:

Discrimination

Unfair or prejudicial treatment of people based on characteristics such as race, age, sex, or disability rather than individual merit.

Harassment

Unwanted or unwelcome behavior that demeans, humiliates, or embarrasses a person, often creating a hostile or offensive environment.

Power Distance

This concept describes the extent to which less powerful members of institutions and organizations accept that power is distributed unequally.

Ethnocentric

Having or based on the belief that one's own ethnic group is superior, or judging other cultures solely by the values and standards of one's own culture.