At Esco Retail, All Employees Are Constantly Driven to Work

question 96

Multiple Choice

At Esco Retail, all employees are constantly driven to work hard. The company places maximum emphasis on stocking high quality goods and providing high quality service to retain the edge they have in the retail industry. To promote organizational commitment further, the company incentivizes employees by enabling them to purchase company shares at below-market prices as a part of their benefits. This mode of providing incentives represents the use of ________.

• A) flexible benefits plans
• B) merit-based plans
• C) modular plans
• D) employee stock ownership plans
• E) core-plus plans

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Definitions:

Implicit Attitudes

Unconscious beliefs or feelings towards objects, people, or concepts, which can influence behavior without conscious awareness.

Explicit Attitudes

Attitudes that are consciously recognized and expressed by individuals, reflecting their beliefs or feelings towards an object or subject.

Unconscious Level

A part of the mind that is inaccessible to the conscious mind but that affects behavior and emotions.

Ingroup

A social group to which a person psychologically identifies as being a member, often contrasting with an "outgroup" which the person does not identify with.