When the Organizational Output Is Difficult to Define,management May Rely

question 38

Multiple Choice

When the organizational output is difficult to define,management may rely on ____ for cost control.

• A)qualitative measures
• B)program budgeting
• C)surrogate measures of output
• D)all of the above

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Definitions:

Internal Validity

Extent to which all factors that could extraneously affect a study’s results are controlled within a laboratory study.

Experimental Group

The group in a scientific study that receives the treatment or intervention being tested, as opposed to the control group which does not.

Control Group

In an experimental study, group of subjects whose experience resembles that of the experimental group in all ways except that they do not receive the key manipulation.

Wait List Control

A research method where participants are assigned to a waiting list and receive the intervention after the active treatment group, used as a control condition in studies.