Mara Is Looking to Send One of Her Team Members

question 70

Multiple Choice

Mara is looking to send one of her team members on an international assignment to China to train a group of employees located at her company's office in Beijing. As part of the assignment, the chosen employee will have to undergo a three-week diversity training program to help him/her learn about his/her new environment. Bryan, one of Mara's colleagues, is interested in taking up the assignment.
-Which of the following, if true, would reduce the likelihood that Bryan will be selected?

• A) Bryan has had little exposure to Chinese culture.
• B) Bryan is proficient in Chinese.
• C) Bryan traveled to Beijing last year on a different assignment.
• D) Bryan does not cope very well in ambiguous situations.
• E) Bryan sometimes displays striking contradictions between his public persona and his private self.

Understand the concept of the transportation problem and identify scenarios requiring dummy sources or destinations.

Calculate the total number of possible routes in a given transportation problem.

Apply the Northwest-Corner rule to determine an initial feasible solution.

Calculate the value of the objective function in a transportation problem.

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Definitions:

Memory Biases

The tendency for memory to be distorted by previous experiences, desires, or the current emotional state.

Representativeness Heuristic

A belief that outcomes will always reflect characteristics of the process that generated them (e.g., an expectation that the outcome of a series of coin flips will always look random).

Coin Flips

A random process used to generate two equally likely outcomes, typically representing "heads" or "tails."

Framing

The way information is presented or structured, affecting perception and decision-making.