Oscar Is Looking for a New Job

question 40

Multiple Choice

Oscar is looking for a new job. He used to be the company's top sales representative and was eagerly expecting to be promoted. However, one of the regional manager's friends was promoted to district manager instead. According to the expectancy theory, Oscar's dissatisfaction with his current job stems from a breakdown in the ________ relationship.

• A) performance-reward
• B) effort-performance
• C) reward-personal goal
• D) satisfaction-effort
• E) personal goal-self actualization

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Definitions:

Ethnic Differences

Variations in behaviors, traditions, practices, and beliefs observed between distinct ethnic groups or cultures.

Intelligence Test Scores

Numeric scores derived from assessments designed to measure an individual's cognitive abilities in comparison to a population norm.

Subjectively Biased Judgments

Evaluations or decisions made based on personal feelings, tastes, or opinions rather than on objective reality, evidence, or rationality.

Discrimination

(1) In classical conditioning, the learned ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus; in operant conditioning, the ability to distinguish responses that are reinforced from similar responses that are not reinforced. (2) In social psychology, unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group or its members.