Employees Often Experience Considerable Stress When They Do Not Know

question 26

Multiple Choice

Employees often experience considerable stress when they do not know what the next step in their professional lives might be or when they might take it. Which of the following could be the best solution to this problem?

• A) creating standardized jobs and defining procedures
• B) designing and operating career counseling programs
• C) promoting creativity and innovation at the work place
• D) modifying the basic norms of organizational culture
• E) making the organizational climate more formal

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Definitions:

Opportunity Cost

The value of the next best alternative that is foregone as a result of making a decision.

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Fundamental choices or determinations made to guide actions, policies, or strategies, often in businesses or personal planning.