In the Classic Movie Twelve O'Clock High, the Misfits and Poor

question 68

Multiple Choice

In the classic movie Twelve O'Clock High, the misfits and poor performers in a bomber squadron during World War II are put into one crew and forced to fly a plane named The Leper Colony as a form of punishment. Salancik and Pfeffer would predict that having this group of disgruntled men working together in one social unit would MOST LIKELY ________.

• A) increase the level of job satisfaction due to the weakness of comparative others
• B) increase the level of job satisfaction due to the close cohesion such a group would generate
• C) decrease the level of job satisfaction because of the negative social environment
• D) not affect job satisfaction, because all of the workers are misfits and poor performers

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