Which of the Following Statements About Why Organizations Persist Is

question 34

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about why organizations persist is false?

• A)Organizations persist because people involved in organizations have a strong interest in their survival.
• B)Organizations persist because people who work for organizations want to keep their jobs.
• C)Organizations persist because they,especially as they grow,tend to become less bureaucratic.
• D)Organizations persist because they have established operating principles and procedures that do not rely on any one individual to maintain them.

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Definitions:

Positive Reinforcement

The process of increasing the likelihood of a behavior by following it with a pleasant or rewarding stimulus.

Conditioned

Refers to a behavior or response that has been learned or acquired through association with an environmental stimulus.

Frequency

The rate at which something occurs over a particular period of time or in a given sample.

Forgetting

A decrease in a response as a result of not being able to display it over time. Forgetting involves preventing a response from occurring for some period after it has been conditioned.