Why Is Organizational Behavior Modification Criticized

question 55

Multiple Choice

Why is organizational behavior modification criticized?

• A)It fails to give managers a technique to motivate the performance of organizationally functional behaviors.
• B)It has been unsuccessful when used to improve productivity, efficiency, attendance, and punctuality.
• C)It can rob people of their individuality, freedom of choice, and creativity if used ineptly.
• D)It does not work for behaviors that are specific, objective, and countable.
• E)It is highly ineffective in promoting organizational efficiency among employees.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A range of values that is believed to contain an unknown population parameter, calculated from a given set of sample data.

Sample Variance

A statistical measure of the dispersion of observations in a sample dataset around the sample mean.

T Distribution

A family of probability distributions that can be used to develop an interval estimate of a population mean whenever the population standard deviation s is unknown and is estimated by the sample standard deviation s.

Variance

A measure of the spread between numbers in a data set, indicating how much the numbers differ from the mean.