The Job Description Often Is Not Sufficient to Clarify What

question 74

Multiple Choice

The job description often is not sufficient to clarify what employees are to do.This lack of clarity is because

• A)it is written for specific employees.
• B)it is written only for benchmark jobs.
• C)it is the same for groups of employees.
• D)it is written for specific departments.
• E)managers may ask individual employees to take on additional tasks.

Understand the principles of job order costing in both service and manufacturing businesses.

Identify the similarities and differences between job order costing in service and manufacturing sectors.

Develop skills to prepare journal entries for closing the factory overhead accounts.

Interpret the implications of debit and credit balances in factory overhead accounts.

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Definitions:

Cognitive Psychologists

Researchers who focus on analyzing cognitive functions including how we perceive, remember, think, and solve problems.

Stimulus Generalization

The tendency for the conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the stimulus to which the response was originally conditioned.

Backward Conditioning

A conditioning process where a conditioning stimulus is presented after the unconditioned stimulus, often less effective in creating associations.

Desensitization

The process of reducing sensitivity or responsiveness to a stimulus, typically as a result of repeated exposure to that stimulus.