You've Agreed to Meet a Deadline for a Report, but You

question 22

Multiple Choice

You've agreed to meet a deadline for a report, but you are now fairly sure that you won't be able to meet it. You should ________.

• A) let the recipient know that there may be a delay
• B) wait and hope for the best; things may turn around
• C) start readying excuses and looking for someone to blame
• D) keep in mind that you are doing them the favour; things take as long as they take

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Definitions:

Functional Attributes

Characteristics of a product or service that serve a practical purpose or provide utility to the consumer.

Symbolic Attributes

Qualities or features of an object or entity that represent or stand for something else, carrying additional meaning beyond their inherent traits.

Gestalt

A psychological theory that emphasizes the human mind and behavior as being organized into wholes, where the perceived whole is different from and often more than the sum of its parts.

Stimuli

External events or occurrences that can elicit responses from sensory organs, leading to various forms of responses in an organism.