Organizations That Implement Empowerment Often Have to Lower Their Performance

question 33

True/False

Organizations that implement empowerment often have to lower their performance standards.

---

Definitions:

Rosenthal Effect

Also known as the Pygmalion effect, the phenomenon in which higher expectations lead to an increase in performance; a form of self-fulfilling prophecy.

Double-Masked Study

A type of clinical trial where neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment, reducing bias.

Selection Bias

A distortion in the outcome of a study due to non-random selection of participants, leading to an unrepresentative sample.

Double-Masked

A study design in which neither the participants nor the researchers know which participants belong to the control group and which to the experimental group, to prevent bias.