What Did Rosabeth Moss Kanter Find When Studying a Corporation

question 46

Multiple Choice

What did Rosabeth Moss Kanter find when studying a corporation with very few female managers?

• A) The people with the best qualifications typically rise to the top of an organization.
• B) The employees who work hard and are cooperative have the greatest chance for promotion.
• C) Company policies need to be designed to address discrimination against women.
• D) An informal network of social relations can determine an employee's corporate fate.

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Definitions:

External Locus

A belief that one's life outcomes are generally determined by external forces or circumstances beyond personal control.

Self-Actualized Potential

The realization or fulfillment of one's talents and potentialities, considered as a drive or need present in everyone.

Spontaneous Recovery

Relearning a conditioned response.

Little Albert

An experiment in classical conditioning that demonstrated how fears could be acquired through associative learning.