A Manager Leads a Group with Goals That Align with the Organization's

question 20

Multiple Choice

A manager leads a group with goals that align with the organization's goals. However, he also notices that there is social loafing and bickering amongst members. His BEST move to eliminate social loafing would be to ________.

• A) increase their membership so that more work can get accomplished
• B) bring in people with more diverse backgrounds so there are more viewpoints
• C) decrease the number of people in their group
• D) punish the group as a whole because of lack of productivity

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Definitions:

P Value

A statistical parameter that measures the probability of obtaining the observed results of a test, assuming that the null hypothesis is true.

Increase The Sample

An action to add more subjects or observations to the sample being studied to improve the representativeness or reduce the margin of error.

Obtained T Value

The achieved result of a t-test calculation, indicating the difference between groups measured in units of standard error.

Critical Value

The threshold value that a test statistic must exceed in order for the null hypothesis to be rejected in statistical hypothesis testing.