You Have Just Applied for a Job and When Completing

question 214

Multiple Choice

You have just applied for a job and when completing the application form you were surprised to see questions about your age and marital status.Such questions would seem to violate equal employment and human rights legislation and not likely to be related to the job.It made you wonder why a company would ask these questions.What is a good explanation for this?

• A)Difficulties of non-programmed decision making
• B)Bounded rationality
• C)Cognitive biases
• D)Information overload
• E)Difficulties of programmed decision making

Analyze the challenge post-structuralists pose to conventional notions of scientific knowledge and truth.

Identify the characteristics and criticisms of capitalism from a Gramscian perspective.

Articulate the foundations and aims of feminist theories and their critique of societal structures.

Understand the production of knowledge as a social process, especially within scientific and academic contexts.

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Definitions:

Purchase Decision

The cognitive process leading a consumer to select a product or service among alternatives, based on various factors including need, desire, and affordability.

Consumer Decision-making

The process by which consumers identify their needs, gather information, evaluate alternatives, and make the purchase decision; a crucial aspect of marketing and sales strategies.

Steps

Sequence of actions or procedures followed to achieve a particular end.

Straight Rebuy

A routine purchasing decision in which a business reorders a product or service without any modifications or consideration of new options.