The "Optimal Conflict" Perspective of Organizational Conflict Is That

question 124

Multiple Choice

The "optimal conflict" perspective of organizational conflict is that:

• A)conflict should be minimized in all departments.
• B)conflict should be encouraged to increase creativity.
• C)organizations are most effective when employees experience some level of conflict,but become less effective with high levels of conflict.
• D)conflict energizes people to debate issues more thoroughly.
• E)no level of conflict is every beneficial to the organization or employees.

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Definitions:

Interrater Reliability

A measure of the extent to which different observers or raters agree in their assessment decisions.

Reactivity

The phenomenon wherein subjects alter their performance or behavior due to the awareness that they are being observed.

Convergent Validity

Convergent validity is the extent to which two measures of constructs that theoretically should be related, are in fact related.

Cronbach's Alpha

A measure of internal consistency that assesses how closely related a set of items are as a group, often used in survey research.