Focusing Manager and Employee Efforts on Activities That Will Lead

question 37

Multiple Choice

Focusing manager and employee efforts on activities that will lead to goal attainment is a benefit of what performance management concept?

• A) Tactical planning
• B) Contingency planning
• C) Single-use planning
• D) Management by objectives
• E) Management by walking around

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Definitions:

Drives

Internal states that motivate the organism to perform actions necessary for survival, such as hunger or thirst.

Contiguity

In psychology, contiguity is the principle that ideas, memories, and experiences are linked when one is frequently experienced with the other, leading to easier recall or association.

S-R Association

stands for Stimulus-Response Association, referring to the connection that forms between a specific stimulus and a particular response.

Guthrie

Edwin Ray Guthrie, a psychologist known for his theory that learning occurs through contiguity between stimuli and responses, not through reinforcement.