An Individual Who Works at a Bookstore Routinely Takes Home

question 14

Multiple Choice

An individual who works at a bookstore routinely takes home ballpoint pens and Post-it notes, uses the copy machine to make personal copies, and makes long-distance phone calls on the store's line. However, he would never consider stealing money from the cash register, even if he knew he could get away with it. What is this attitude called?

• A) business nonconformity
• B) property trespass
• C) cash register honesty
• D) partial deviance
• E) misdemeanor deviance

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Definitions:

Neatness

The quality of being clean, orderly, and tidy.

Major Consequence

A significant outcome or result that follows an action, decision, or event, often having long-lasting effects.

Work Habits

A person’s characteristic approach to work, including such things as organization, priority setting, and handling of paperwork, e-mail, and intranets.

Preoccupied

Being absorbed in thought or engrossed in an activity to the extent of becoming unaware of one’s surroundings.