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:

Partial Pressure

The pressure that a single component of a gas mixture would exert if it occupied the entire volume of the mixture at the same temperature.

Osmotic Gradient

A difference in the concentration of solutes across a semipermeable membrane, which drives osmosis, the movement of water to balance solute concentrations.

First Lungs

Refers to the initial evolutionary development of lungs in the ancestor of terrestrial vertebrates, facilitating air breathing.

Outpouchings

Bulges or protrusions from a hollow structure in the body.