A Chocolate Company Would Like to Design a Research Experiment

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Essay

A chocolate company would like to design a research experiment to determine if the taste of their company's candy bar improves if the consumer knows the brand name of the chocolate before rating it. The chocolate company is using in-house researchers and seven different company's chocolate bars in their testing. What is the best research design for this research study?

Understand the basic concepts of organizational scope and operations.

Recognize the different managerial strategies and their assumptions about employee management.

Appreciate the role of organizational culture in business strategies.

Identify key cultural values and their impact on organizational strategies.

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Definitions:

Conjunctive Task

A task that requires all group members to contribute for the task to be successfully completed; performance is determined by the least capable member.

Additive Task

A type of group task where the contributions from all members are summed to produce a final outcome.

Compensatory Task

A type of task in group settings where the contributions of all members are combined and averaged, leading to a final outcome based on collective effort.

Discretionary Task

A task or activity that an individual or group has the freedom to decide whether or not to perform, based on their judgment or preference.