Tournaments Are Useful for Rewarding Worker Effort Whenever

question 175

Multiple Choice

Tournaments are useful for rewarding worker effort whenever:

• A) external factors, such as the quality of the good and the state of the economy, have little effect on workers' success.
• B) workers are myopic and unaware that external factors play a significant role on sales.
• C) workers are utility maximizers primarily concerned about cooperating with their fellow salespeople.
• D) external factors, such as the quality of the good and the state of the economy, significantly affect workers success.

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning Techniques

Behavioral training methods based on the principle of reinforcing desired behaviors and discouraging undesired ones.

Infant Memories

This term relates to the recollections or memories that originate from the infancy period of a human's life, although these are usually not consciously accessible in later years.

Retrieval Cues

Stimuli or signals that help in the recall of memories stored in the brain.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process through which behavior is shaped by reinforcement or punishment.