In the Text, Cirent, a Joint Venture Between Lucent Technologies

question 18

Multiple Choice

In the text, Cirent, a joint venture between Lucent Technologies and Cirrus Logic, was faced with a shortage of people in the local labor market who had the needed skills to staff its clean room operations in Orlando, Florida.To address this problem, Cirent did which of the following

• A) sent newly hired employees to its other clean facilities to learn their jobs
• B) collaborated with a local community college to design a curriculum for an associate's degree program that would give technicians the needed skills
• C) expanded its relevant labor market search to include surrounding states
• D) transferred trained personnel from its other clean room facilities
• E) All of the above statements are actions that Cirent took to address the problem

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Definitions:

Instrumentality

The perceived relationship between performance and the attainment of desired outcomes.

Equity Comparisons

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Equity Theory

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Underpaid Individual

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