In the Last One Week, May and Phyllis Have Been

question 103

Multiple Choice

In the last one week, May and Phyllis have been putting in extra hours at work so that the project assigned to them by their manager is completed well within time. Though the manager was due to assign two more people to this project, he had not done so. As a result, May and Phyllis, who were having to do double their routine workload, went and complained to the division manager. May was promptly suspended from work for complaining about her immediate supervisor. This represents the operation of ________ power.

• A)reward
• B)legitimate
• C)coercive
• D)expert
• E)referent

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Average Total Cost

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