Which of the Following Is True About Standard Hour Plans

question 48

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true about standard hour plans?

• A) They always encourage employees to focus on customer service.
• B) They succeed only for employees who are not motivated by money.
• C) They encourage employees to focus mainly on quality.
• D) In terms of their pros and cons, they are very different from piecework plans.
• E) They encourage employees to work as fast as they can.

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Definitions:

Internal Validity

The extent to which the design and conduct of a study allow for accurate attribution of outcomes to the intervention or treatment, rather than to confounding variables.

Nonequivalent Control Group Design

A quasi-experimental research design where the experimental group and control group may not be strictly comparable at the outset of the experiment, lacking random assignment.

Selection Differences

Differences in the type of subjects who make up each group in an experimental design; this situation occurs whenparticipants elect which groupthey are to be assigned to.

Independent Variable

In experimental research, the factor that is altered by the scientist to observe how it affects a dependent variable.