Additional Case 1.3 Your Company Sells High-Tech Products Throughout the World and Is

question 75

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Additional Case 1.3
Your company sells high-tech products throughout the world and is following a differentiation business strategy. The business environment for the company is volatile, rapidly changing, and highly complex. The company is highly entrepreneurial and has a strong moral commitment to quality products, employee job satisfaction, and corporate social responsibility. The management team has decided to create a common company culture among the various national and international subsidiaries.
-Refer to Additional Case 1.4.Crowe could be best described as a:

• A) defender.
• B) prospector.
• C) reactive corporation.
• D) company with distinctive competencies.

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Definitions:

Functional Alternative

An alternative method or strategy that achieves the same goal or function as the original.

Differential Reinforcement

A technique used in behavior modification that involves reinforcing desired behaviors while withholding reinforcement for undesired behaviors.

DRO Increasing-Interval Schedule

A DRO schedule that thins or fades the reinforcement by gradually increasing the length of the interval. If the specified interval passes without a target response occurring, reinforcement is delivered and the next interval can be increased by a certain amount of time. If the response does occur, however, the next interval stays the same.

Topographically Incompatible

Refers to behaviors that cannot occur simultaneously because the performance of one behavior physically restricts the other.