The Time Attendance System in the Production Division at MM

question 57

Multiple Choice

The time attendance system in the production division at MM, an automobile manufacturing company, was malfunctioning. Consequently, Greg Hill, one of the front-level managers, sent it for repair. In the meantime, he placed a register where all workers of the production division had to provide their time of entry and exit from office. At the end of the week, when looking through the time logs, he had certain concerns about a group of employees. In the next week, he personally tracked the time this group of employees spent working and realized that they were reporting a greater number of working hours than they actually worked. This group engaged in a barrier to communication called ________.

• A) selective perception
• B) filtering
• C) silence
• D) communication apprehension
• E) lying

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Definitions:

Gestalt Principles

Theories in psychology that propose humans naturally perceive objects as organized patterns and wholes, rather than their separate components.

Simplicity

The quality or condition of being easy to understand or do, often characterized by clarity, purity, or uncomplicatedness.

Perceptual Hypothesis

An educated guess or interpretation made by the brain about the nature of sensory stimuli based on incomplete or ambiguous information.

Trapezoid Shape

A quadrilateral with at least one pair of parallel sides, often used in geometry.