The One Factor That Company Executives Need Not Worry About

question 95

Multiple Choice

The one factor that company executives need not worry about when their company is managing many diverse,unrelated firms is

• A)staying abreast of what is happening in each industry and subsidiary.
• B)picking business-unit heads who have the requisite combination of managerial skills and know-how to motivate people.
• C)understanding the true value of strategic investment proposals by business-unit managers.
• D)knowing what to do if a business unit stumbles.
• E)"managing by the numbers"-that is,keeping a close track on the financial and operating results of each subsidiary.

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Definitions:

Nonequivalent Control Group Design

A quasi-experimental research design where the experimental group and control group may not be strictly comparable at the outset of the experiment, lacking random assignment.

Selection Differences

Differences in the type of subjects who make up each group in an experimental design; this situation occurs whenparticipants elect which groupthey are to be assigned to.

Independent Variable

In experimental research, the factor that is altered by the scientist to observe how it affects a dependent variable.

Dependent Variable

A variable in an experiment that is expected to change in response to manipulations of the independent variable.