Engaging in Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Can Improve Organisational Effectiveness

question 45

Multiple Choice

Engaging in self-fulfilling prophecy can improve organisational effectiveness:

• A) Never; self-fulfilling prophecy is a perceptual bias that always makes organisations less effective
• B) Whenever and wherever it exists in organisational settings
• C) When supervisors demonstrate their hope and optimism in each employee's potential
• D) When supervisors also use stereotyping to determine the employee's potential performance

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