A Plant Manager Uses an Efficiency Rating to Measure a Department's

question 10

Multiple Choice

A plant manager uses an efficiency rating to measure a department's performance. Department managers push people and equipment to get a high efficiency rating. People feel overstressed and the equipment breaks down from overuse. This is a

• A) Manifest functional consequence.
• B) Latent functional consequence.
• C) Manifest dysfunctional consequence.
• D) Latent dysfunctional consequence.

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Definitions:

Regression Toward

Implies the statistical concept that extreme scores tend to fall back (regress) toward the mean (average) over time.

Mean

In statistics, the average value in a set of numbers, calculated by adding all the numbers and dividing by the total count of values.

Normal Curve

A bell-shaped curve representing a distribution of values, traits, or scores where most occurrences take place in the middle of the range.

Standard Deviations

A measure of the dispersion or variability within a set of numerical data, indicating how much each value differs from the mean of the dataset.