Rather Than Assuming That There Is One "Best" or Universal

question 44

Multiple Choice

Rather than assuming that there is one "best" or universal way to manage people in organizations, which of the following should organizational behavior researchers use to try to identify how different situations can best be understood and handled?

• A) A traditional method
• B) Industrial engineering
• C) Contingency thinking
• D) Emotional intelligence
• E) A laboratory study

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Definitions:

Contraries

In the traditional square of opposition, a pair of categorical propositions that, in virtue of their logical form, could not both be true but could both be false (A and E).

Universal

Pertaining to or affecting the whole or applicable in all cases; general.

Existential Import

A property of categorical propositions; a proposition has existential import if its truth depends on the existence of things of the kinds specified by terms in the proposition.

Contrary

Opposing or differing in nature, direction, or meaning; in logic, it refers to propositions that cannot both be true but can both be false.