You Have Been Asked to Provide Some Element of Rationale

question 30

Multiple Choice

You have been asked to provide some element of rationale why some companies using a human relations strategy sometimes attempt to change to a more classical framework. Which of the following would best describe the most important issue associated with your explanation?

• A) It is simply very hard on management to pursue a human relations strategy.
• B) There is pressure from owners to increase profitability.
• C) Companies fail to react fast enough to changes in the environment.
• D) Greater worker mobility makes a human relations strategy obsolete.

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Definitions:

Free Association

A psychoanalytic technique in which clients are encouraged to express freely any thoughts, feelings, or images that come to mind, without censorship or filtering.

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A behavioral conditioning technique where an unpleasant stimulus is associated with undesirable behavior in order to reduce or eliminate that behavior.

Flooding

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