James Is the New Manager of Operations at Springfield Motors

question 77

Multiple Choice

James is the new manager of operations at Springfield Motors. To his dismay, he finds the employees coming in late to work, taking long breaks, and behaving unprofessionally at their workstations. James decides to promote desirable work practices. He plans to introduce incentives for meeting the required targets but, at the same time, to withhold those incentives when employees' are late, take long breaks, or behave unprofessionally. Identify the contingencies that James is planning to implement.

• A) Punishment and extinction
• B) Positive reinforcement and punishment
• C) Punishment and negative reinforcement
• D) Positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement
• E) Negative reinforcement and extinction

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