Jay Recently Was Promoted to a Management Position in a Firm

question 138

Multiple Choice

Jay recently was promoted to a management position in a firm that had been extremely bureaucratic.However,the environment changed dramatically and the new management team knew it needed to change the organization quickly if it was to survive.Jay suggested that the management team allow the employees to develop more confidence in their ability to do a good job by sharing power with them.The others on the team were skeptical,but they allowed Jay to experiment.In this situation Jay is suggesting using __________ to increase employee confidence in their ability to do the job.

• A)smoothing
• B)benchmarking
• C)empowerment
• D)kanban
• E)buffering

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Definitions:

Tukey's Method

A statistical technique used to identify outliers within a dataset, often used in conjunction with analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests.

Honestly Significant Differences

A statistical technique used to determine if the difference between two or more groups is significant and not likely due to chance.

Sample Means

The average value of a set of data points drawn from a larger population, representing an estimate of the population mean.

Analysis of Variance

Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is a statistical method used to compare the means of three or more samples to determine if at least one of the sample means is statistically significantly different from the others.