Hocker and Wilmot Summarize Several Advantages of Clarifying Your Goals

question 9

Multiple Choice

Hocker and Wilmot summarize several advantages of clarifying your goals in a conflict.Which of the following is NOT an advantage identified?

• A) Clear goals are reached more often than unclear ones.
• B) Clear goals can be altered more easily than vague ones.
• C) Only clear goals can be shared.
• D) Solutions go unrecognized if you don't know what you want.
• E) Knowing the other's goals helps you manipulate the situation to get what you want.

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Definitions:

Product Life Cycle

The phases a product experiences from its launch, to its growth, peak, and eventual decrease in the marketplace.

Supply-Chain Management

The coordination and management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the provision of product and service packages required by the end customers.

Purchased

The act of acquiring goods or services in exchange for money or its equivalent.

Operations Management

The administration of business practices to create the highest level of efficiency possible within an organization, focusing on converting materials and labor into goods and services as efficiently as possible.