Engaging in Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Can Improve Organizational Effectiveness

question 111

Multiple Choice

Engaging in self-fulfilling prophecy can improve organizational effectiveness:

• A)Self-fulfilling prophecy is a perceptual bias that always makes organizations less effective.
• B)whenever and wherever it exists in organizational settings.
• C)when supervisors demonstrate their hope and optimism in each employee's potential.
• D)when supervisors also use stereotyping to determine the employee's potential performance.
• E)only when supervisors have a self-serving bias.

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Neuromarketing

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