Your Company Is Downsizing

question 29

Multiple Choice

Your company is downsizing. If you advocate a plan to lay off employees equally from each department (10 percent from marketing, 10 percent from production, etc.) , which response to conflict are you using?

• A) Forcing
• B) Accommodating
• C) Avoiding
• D) Compromising
• E) Collaborating

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Definitions:

Second Wave Feminists

Activists and thinkers associated with the feminist movement during the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on issues like equality in the workplace, reproductive rights, and legal inequalities.

Double Bind

A psychological predicament in which an individual receives two or more conflicting messages, with one negating the other, creating a situation in which the person cannot appropriately respond or resolve.

Women Interacting

The dynamics and relationships among women in social, professional, or personal contexts, influencing their experiences and perceptions.

Ambivalent Sexism

A theory that sexism has two primary components: hostile sexism, which is openly negative, and benevolent sexism, which is superficially positive but reinforces gender inequality.