Managers Should Know and Use the Address Terms That People

question 151

Multiple Choice

Managers should know and use the address terms that people in a given culture use to address each other in the workplace to increase the chances for successful cross-cultural communication. Doing this will tend to ____ on the part of the person from the other culture who is being addressed (or spoken to) .

• A)increase sensitivity
• B)increase awareness
• C)reduce defensiveness
• D)reduce ambiguity
• E)increase instrumentality

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Definitions:

Homoscedasticity

A condition in regression analysis where the variance of the residuals, or errors, is constant across all levels of the independent variable.

Regression Line

A line of best fit through a dataset in linear regression analysis, showing the relationship between the independent and dependent variables.

Independent Variable

An independent variable is a variable that is manipulated to determine its effects on another variable.

Normal Distribution

A probability distribution demonstrating symmetry around the mean, indicating that data points close to the mean occur more often than those far from it.