The Information Systems Department at Wilson and Davis Co

question 108

Multiple Choice

The information systems department at Wilson and Davis Co. was given the specific and difficult goal of learning how to program a new computer system within 20 days of the equipment's arrival. Although the department has experienced and qualified programmers, two months after equipment installation, the department has still not learned how to program the complex system. This incident illustrates that ________.

• A) employee participation in goal setting is critical to its success
• B) goal setting may not work for complicated tasks that require a considerable amount of learning
• C) organizational citizenship behavior is important in order to achieve goals
• D) goal setting cannot work when the workers lack the skills to perform at a high level

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Definitions:

Variability

The extent to which data points in a statistical distribution or dataset differ from the average or mean value.

Sample Size

The number of observations or data points collected in a sample from a population.

Central Limit Theorem

A statistical theory that states that, given a sufficiently large sample size from a population with a finite level of variance, the mean of all samples from the same population will be approximately equal to the mean of the population, and the samples will be distributed approximately normally.

Normal Probability Distribution

A type of continuous probability distribution that is symmetrical around its mean, representing how random variables are distributed in many natural phenomena.