Your Supervisor Recently Expressed Disappointment That No One in Your

question 7

Multiple Choice

Your supervisor recently expressed disappointment that no one in your department was participating in the company's new volunteer initiative, which encourages employees to "adopt" causes they care about and donate time and resources to help them. You decide to research some options-including a mentoring program at a local high school and a recreational centre at a nearby seniors' facility-so you can discuss them with your team and hopefully convince them to join the program with you. In this case, your primary audience is ________.

• A)your supervisor
• B)your department
• C)your team members
• D)the high school students
• E)the seniors

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Definitions:

External-Unstable

Characteristics of attributions referring to causes outside oneself that are variable and can change over time.

Self-Fulfilling Prophesy

A prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, due to the positive feedback between belief and behavior.

Discrimination

The unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, sex, or disability.

Self-Serving Bias

The common tendency to attribute successes to personal abilities and failures to external factors.