Randy Always Turns in Reports with Punctuation Errors

question 44

Multiple Choice

Randy always turns in reports with punctuation errors. The three other employees on the QA report writing team always produce grammatically clean reports. Randy is about to turn in another report, and his manager has already noticed errors. Randy demonstrates ________. His sloppy reports can be attributed to an ________ cause.

• A) low distinctiveness, low consensus, and high consistency; internal
• B) high distinctiveness, low consensus, and high consistency; external
• C) low distinctiveness, high consensus, and high consistency; internal
• D) low distinctiveness, low consensus, and high consistency; external
• E) high distinctiveness, high consensus, and high consistency; internal

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Definitions:

Overhead Applied

The portion of overhead costs allocated to individual units of production.

Total Job Cost

The sum of all costs assigned to a specific job or project, including materials, labor, and overhead.

Unit Product Cost

The complete expenditure involved in creating a single unit of a product, which includes the costs of direct materials, direct labor, and the apportioned overhead.

Unit Product Cost

The total cost associated with producing one unit of a product, including both direct costs and allocated indirect costs.