When a Company Determines That One of Its Sales Staff

question 10

Multiple Choice

When a company determines that one of its sales staff has an addiction which affects his work,it would be most ethical for the company to:

• A) terminate the employee to convey a message to other employees.
• B) punish the employee with a salary cut and demotion.
• C) encourage the employee to seek professional help.
• D) encourage the employee to take a leave of absence.
• E) file a lawsuit against the employee to cover the liability.

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Definitions:

Physical Linkage

The adjacency of two or more loci on the same chromosome.

Genetic Recombination

The exchange of genetic material between paired chromosomes during meiosis. Recombination can form new combinations of alleles and is a source of heritable variation.

Heritability

A measure of how much of the variation in a trait within a population is due to genetic differences among individuals in that population.

Selection Differential

A measure in quantitative genetics that quantifies the difference between the mean phenotype of selected individuals for breeding and the mean phenotype of the general population, driving evolutionary changes.