The Failure of Organizations to Use the Pool of Managerial

question 117

Multiple Choice

The failure of organizations to use the pool of managerial talents held by women can best be termed

• A) deliberate policy of discrimination.
• B) lack of assertiveness by women managers.
• C) managerial isolation from social trends.
• D) an opportunity cost for firms.

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Definitions:

Stimulus Discrimination

The ability to distinguish between different stimuli, often used in behavioral psychology to describe how organisms learn to respond differently to various signals.

Higher-order Conditioning

A form of learning in which a stimulus is paired with a previously conditioned stimulus, creating a new conditioned response.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after becoming associated with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually comes to trigger a conditioned response.

Neutral Stimulus

A stimulus that initially produces no specific response other than focusing attention; in classical conditioning, it becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus.