Which of the Following Statements Is True of Intended and Emergent

question 13

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true of intended and emergent strategies?

• A)The new focus on strategic human resource management has tended to focus primarily on emergent strategies.
• B)Intended strategies and emergent strategies are very similar to each other in the way they are developed.
• C)Intended strategies are the result of the rational decision-making process used by top managers as they develop a strategic plan.
• D)Emergent strategies can be thought of as what organizations intend to do as opposed to what they actually do.
• E)Most emergent strategies are identified by those who are at the top of the organizational hierarchy.

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Definitions:

Obtained Value

The real outcome or result attained through a statistical examination or experiment.

Within-groups Df

Degrees of freedom within groups in an analysis of variance (ANOVA), related to the variability of observations within each group.

Between-groups Df

Degrees of freedom associated with the variance between the groups in an ANOVA test, useful in determining the variability attributable to the difference between groups.

Simple Analysis of Variance

A statistical method used to compare the means of two or more groups to see if there is a significant difference between them.