Refer to the Scenario Given to Answer the Following Questions

question 13

Multiple Choice

Refer to the scenario given to answer the following questions.
The Sea to Sky Collaborative (Scenario)
Nadia Mainardi is the senior planner for the Whistler-Blackcomb Regional Development Council. She has met with a group of stakeholders, including the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation, Tourism B.C., and others who are interested in working together to improve the Sea to Sky Highway between North Vancouver and Whistler. To date, Nadia has successfully obtained a Technical Assistance Grant from the province to help organize several small communities along the Sea to Sky Highway into an intergovernmental unit, all sharing the same mission and goals. Nadia is now charged with developing a strategic plan for this group, called the Sea to Sky Collaborative.
-After establishing the Collaborative's goals, Nadia's boss asks what contingency factors might influence the collaborative's plans to reach these goals. Nadia responds that planning contingency factors can be broadly grouped into three categories: __________.

• A) degree of environmental uncertainty, organizational structure, and communication effectiveness
• B) degree of environmental uncertainty, length of future commitments, and degree of urgency
• C) degree of environmental uncertainty, level of profitability, and organizational structure
• D) degree of urgency, length of future commitments, and communication effectiveness
• E) degree of environmental uncertainty, length of future commitments, and organizational level

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Definitions:

False Consensus Effect

Observers’ overestimation of the degree to which everybody else thinks or acts the way they do.

Social Comparison

The process by which individuals evaluate their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and abilities in relation to others.

False Consensus Effect

A cognitive bias whereby individuals overestimate the extent to which their beliefs, feelings, and behaviors are shared by others.

False Consensus Effect

A cognitive bias whereby people tend to overestimate the extent to which their beliefs, values, opinions, and habits are normal and typical of those of others.