Critical Thinking Questions Case 11-1 in Your New Role as a DBA

question 15

Multiple Choice

Critical Thinking Questions Case 11-1 In your new role as a DBA, you have inherited a database that has a lot of problems. Your first task, you decide, is to identify whether or not the information in your database contains the qualities of valuable information, and which quality may be missing. Once you have worked with the data entry team to make sure that they are getting the monthly sales data into the database in a timely fashion, your next challenge is to change the method of disseminating this information from a printed report that is snail-mailed to all sales managers across the country, to an online dissemination strategy that emails the reports to the managers. What kind of information is at issue in this instance?

• A) cost-effective information
• B) organized information
• C) useful information
• D) verifiable information

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Definitions:

BATNAs

Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement, the option that a negotiator would take if the current negotiations fail and an agreement cannot be reached.

Resistance To Change

The reluctance or refusal to adapt to new methods, practices, or conditions in the workplace or other environments.

Employee Resistance

Opposition or pushback by employees against changes or policies introduced in the workplace.

Manipulation Strategy

A method employed in business or communication to influence or control others in a subtle or indirect way, often for personal gain.