Matching Joey, Konrad, and Susan Work at a Small Café.​Match Each

question 14

Multiple Choice

Matching
Joey, Konrad, and Susan work at a small café.​Match each of the following scenarios with the job design concept it most clearly illustrates.
-​job rotation

• A)​Joey takes the customers' orders, Kondrad makes their drinks, and Susan makes the sandwiches.
• B)​To break up the monotony of the long days, Joey, Konrad, and Susan switch jobs at regular intervals.
• C)​After Konrad leaves the company, Susan's job is modified so that she makes drinks as well as sandwiches.
• D)Susan, the designated sandwich-maker, is given control over what sandwiches appear on the menu, where the café gets its ingredients, and how the café's food supplies are stocked.

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Definitions:

Adverse Selection

A situation in markets where buyers or sellers have information that other participants do not have, leading to an inefficient transaction outcome.

Asymmetric Information

A situation in which one party in a transaction has more or superior information compared to another.

Lemons

In economics, refers to a lower-quality product that is difficult to distinguish from higher-quality products before purchase, notably used in a market context where there is information asymmetry between buyers and sellers.

Adverse Selection

A situation where asymmetric information results in high-risk individuals being more likely to participate in a market, leading to an imbalance in the market.