If You Were to Focus on Developing Management Information Systems

question 12

Multiple Choice

If you were to focus on developing management information systems that allowed you to reduce the number of employees in the company and, therefore, reduce the price of products offered to the customer, you would be utilizing a _____ strategy.

• A) Focused
• B) Bottom-line
• C) Top-line
• D) Cutting-edge

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

A learning process in which the likelihood of a behavior's occurrence is increased or decreased through reinforcement or punishment, respectively, introduced by B.F. Skinner.

Deterministic

The philosophical view that all events, including moral choices, are completely determined by previously existing causes.

Conscious Free Will

The concept that individuals have the ability to make choices and decisions consciously and voluntarily.

Fixed-Ratio Schedule

A type of reinforcement schedule in operant conditioning where a response is reinforced only after a specified number of responses have occurred.