Alisa Works at a Company Where She Meets with a Group

question 16

Multiple Choice

Alisa works at a company where she meets with a group to regularly set job-related goals.Members of this group have considerable authority to make many of their own decisions regarding their duties and responsibilities.Alisa's company utilizes _____.

• A)self-directed work teams
• B)focus groups
• C)reengineering teams
• D)line and staff authority

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Definitions:

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a given person's mind when evaluating a specific topic, concept, method, or decision.

Representative Heuristic

A mental shortcut that involves making judgments based on how similar something is to our typical idea of a particular category.

Primary Dimension

Fundamental categories or aspects that define the nature or characteristics of an entity, concept, or system.

Perceptions

The process of organizing, identifying, and interpreting sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment or an idea.