Mario Recently Earned His Ph

question 340

Multiple Choice

Mario recently earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry and has been asked to join a lab at a prestigious university. After a month on the job, he remarked to a graduate student at his former university that the spirit of help and cooperation at the lab was remarkable. He enjoyed going to work each day and sometimes exchanged calls with other lab partners in the evening with ideas to improve each other's experiments. Mario mentioned, "Now I understand why this lab is considered one of the best in the nation!" Mario is referring to

• A) the formal organization.
• B) the inverted organization.
• C) the balanced organization.
• D) the organizational culture.

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