A Manager Should Be Concerned About People Who Are Identified

question 5

Multiple Choice

A manager should be concerned about people who are identified as isolates or isolate pairs in an organizational network for what reason?

• A) The manager may have trouble getting information to the isolates.
• B) Isolates tend to be people who leave the organization and must be replaced.
• C) The manager may not know the person very well as an employee.
• D) Isolates are often poor workers who must be motivated to perform better.

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Definitions:

Fluid Intelligence

The capacity to think logically and solve problems in novel situations, independent of acquired knowledge.

Inductive Reasoning

A method of reasoning in which conclusions are drawn from a set of observations, making broad generalizations from specific instances.

Deviation IQ

A measure of an individual's intelligence expressed as a score derived from standardized tests, adjusted for the person's age.

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped curve that represents the spread of a variable in a way that most occurrences take place around the central peak and the probabilities for values further away from the mean taper off equally in both directions.