Whistle-Blowers Refer to

question 94

Multiple Choice

Whistle-blowers refer to

• A) employees who are simultaneously employed by competing firms and who trade company secrets.
• B) employees who blackmail or extort money from their employers.
• C) employees who are coerced by their employers to participate in illegal or unethical activities.
• D) customers who report unethical or illegal actions of the firms that market the offerings they purchased.
• E) employees who report unethical or illegal actions of their employers.

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Definitions:

Observational Learning

Acquiring new behaviors or information by watching the actions or expressions of others.

Operant Conditioning

is a learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elicit a similar response.

Insight Learning

Insight Learning is a cognitive process in which learning occurs suddenly through understanding the relationships between various parts of a problem rather than by trial and error.