SCENARIO 4-1 You Are a New Employee Just Hired with Acme Inc.Your

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SCENARIO 4-1
You are a new employee just hired with Acme Inc.Your supervisor has explained your job to you and has indicated that you will have a great deal of control over your job once you become proficient at it.He compliments your history of accepting responsibility and suggests that you should feel free to offer constructive criticism about the way your job is structured.

-Referring to SCENARIO 4-1,your supervisor seems to assume that your basic nature is

• A)extrinsic based.
• B)Theory Y based.
• C)process theory based.
• D)Theory X based.
• E)motivation-hygiene based.

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Definitions:

Social-Cognitive Theorists

Psychologists who study how people learn by observing others and how they interpret and model their behaviors based on their beliefs.

Appropriate Circumstances

Suitable or fitting conditions that meet the needs of the situation or fulfill the requirements of a specific context.

Aggressive Behavior

Any physical or verbal action intended to hurt or destroy, whether directed towards oneself or others.

Social Categorization

The cognitive process of classifying people into groups based on shared characteristics.