When Managers Use Measures That Make Them Look Good, They

question 118

Multiple Choice

When managers use measures that make them look good, they are demonstrating which "deadly sin?"

• A) vanity
• B) pettiness
• C) provincialism
• D) inanity
• E) narcissism

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