The Top Executives at a Paper Manufacturing Plant Have Determined

question 9

Multiple Choice

The top executives at a paper manufacturing plant have determined that they should restructure their workforce into self-directed teams. When should they start implementing this organizational change?

• A) after all the strategic plans have been developed
• B) once all resistance to change has been removed
• C) as the executives are developing the strategic plan
• D) once the strategy has been evaluated
• E) after all legal barriers to change have been removed

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Definitions:

Skinner Box

An experimental apparatus developed by B.F. Skinner for studying behavioral conditioning in animals, particularly through the use of reinforcements.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment, a concept introduced by B.F. Skinner.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired: a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a conditioned response after a period of lessened response.