What Is NOT Part of the Process of Upgrading Core

question 67

Multiple Choice

What is NOT part of the process of upgrading core competencies and competitive capabilities?

• A)Core competencies can be leveraged into competitive advantage by concentrating sufficient effort and talent on deepening and strengthening them so that the firm achieves dominating depth and gains the capability to outperform rivals by a meaningful margin.
• B)Core competencies have to be tweaked and adjusted to keep them fresh and responsive to changing customer needs and market conditions.
• C)Core competencies typically are lodged in the combined efforts of different work groups and departments.
• D)Core competencies generally grow out of company efforts to master a strategy-critical technology or to invent and patent a valuable technology.
• E)Core competencies tend to emerge gradually rather than blossom quickly.

Understand the principles of the Yerkes-Dodson Law and its application in performance and arousal levels.

Recognize how stress and relaxation techniques influence performance according to the Yerkes-Dodson Law.

Identify different types of motives and their impact on behavior.

Describe the role of Industrial/Organizational psychologists in improving job performance and productivity.

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Definitions:

Unattainable

Refers to goals, objectives, or levels of production that cannot be achieved with the current availability of resources or technology.

Utilities Possibilities Frontier

A graphical representation showing the maximum levels of utility that two individuals or more can achieve given a fixed set of resources.

Efficient

The state of optimizing the use of limited resources to achieve the desired outcome without waste.

Equitable

Pertains to fairness or justice in the way people are treated or how resources are distributed.