Companies That Must Respond to Fast-Changing Customer Tastes Often Favor

question 20

True/False

Companies that must respond to fast-changing customer tastes often favor a mechanistic structure to an organic one.

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Definitions:

Preconscious

The part of the mind containing contents that are not in immediate awareness but can be accessed easily.

Reality Principle

A psychoanalytic concept referring to the capacity of the mind to assess the external world and act upon it appropriately, as opposed to acting on the pleasure principle.

Pleasure Principle

A psychoanalytic concept that describes people's instinctual seeking of pleasure and avoidance of pain to satisfy biological and psychological needs.

Ego

A part of the psyche that mediates between the conscious, the unconscious, and the reality by deploying defense mechanisms.