Researchers at IBM Think That Employees Who Get to Chose

question 53

Multiple Choice

Researchers at IBM think that employees who get to chose their own working hours will be more satisfied than those who do not. To test this idea, IBM employees at the Dallas facility are told that they can chose their own hours. Six months later, the satisfaction level of employees in the Dallas facility is compared to employees in the Knoxville facility. The employees in the Knoxville facility are considered the:

• A) dependent variable
• B) control group
• C) experimental group
• D) independent variable

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Factory Overhead Cost

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