Chloe,Operations Manager of Brant International,is Trying to Encourage Employee Empowerment

question 57

Multiple Choice

Chloe,Operations Manager of Brant International,is trying to encourage employee empowerment in the business.She supports letting employees take total responsibility for their career development.As the head of HR,you would most likely:

• A) realize that giving total responsibility to employees may leave them without the guidance and understanding they need to develop their careers.
• B) agree that while this is done in most companies, it is too expensive for Brant to implement at this time.
• C) follow her suggestion, knowing that employee empowerment of this sort will increase worker morale and productivity.
• D) believe that the company should play the most active role in employees' career development.

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Definitions:

Stimulus Substitution

A theory in classical conditioning suggesting that the conditioned stimulus acts as a substitute for the unconditioned stimulus, eliciting the same response.

Classical Conditioning

An educational mechanism where the consistent pairing of two stimuli occurs; the response which initially is drawn by the second stimulus, in time, is drawn by the first stimulus alone.

Conditioned Stimulus

A previously neutral stimulus that, after being repeatedly associated with an unconditioned stimulus, evokes a conditioned response.

Conditioned Fear

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with a frightful event or situation.