A Manager Is Deciding Who Should Train His New Employee

question 152

Multiple Choice

A manager is deciding who should train his new employee. Andrea is talented but dissatisfied. Sam is a skilled employee and has a high level of affective commitment. George, who has worked at the company for years, ranks high on neuroticism. Laura, a recently demoted employee, performs similar tasks that the new employee will be expected to do. Using the social information processing model, who would be BEST to train the new employee if the manager hopes that the new employee will have a positive view of his work?

• A) Andrea
• B) Sam
• C) George
• D) Laura

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Definitions:

Samuel Slater

Known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution," he brought British textile technology to America, establishing the country's first successful water-powered cotton mill.

Spinning Jenny

An early multi-spindle spinning frame invented in 1764, which significantly increased the amount of yarn produced and contributed to the Industrial Revolution.

Manifest Destiny

A 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

John O'Sullivan

John O'Sullivan was a journalist and editor who coined the term "Manifest Destiny" to promote the belief that the United States was destined to expand across the North American continent.