Ronaldo Is Doing Some Management Consulting for Three Companies

question 98

Multiple Choice

Ronaldo is doing some management consulting for three companies. Safety Solutions Inc. is a large corporation that was established in the 1960s. It produces safety mechanisms for industrial machinery. The organization uses a strict set of rules and regulations with its workforce and tracks a large amount of data using statistical techniques. Eastern Plains Employment Associates is a network of regional employment centers that was started eight years ago. Its management uses a control system that ties salaries to prevailing salary standards, and the center directors are evaluated on the basis of the profitability of their centers. Resources are moved between centers on the basis of transfer prices. Ocean Innovations Inc. is a software company. Its control process is very future oriented. It likes to prevent problems before they arise, using policies, procedures, and rules. Which control system does Ocean Innovations utilize?

• A)feedback control
• B)market control
• C)clan control
• D)feedforward control
• E)concurrent control

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Definitions:

Higher-Order Conditioning

A process in classical conditioning by which a stimulus that was previously neutral is paired with a conditioned stimulus to produce the same conditioned response as the original conditioned stimulus.

Extinction

In biology, the end of an organism or of a group of organisms, normally a species; in psychology, the process through which a conditioned response is eliminated through repeated exposure without reinforcement.

Unconditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a stimulus that naturally and automatically triggers an unconditioned response without prior conditioning.

American Behaviorism

A school of psychology that focuses on observable behaviors and disregards mental processes.