Employees Often Experience Considerable Stress When They Do Not Know

question 29

Multiple Choice

Employees often experience considerable stress when they do not know what the next step in their professional lives might be or when they might take it. Which of the following could be the best solution to this problem?

• A) creating standardized jobs and define procedures
• B) designing and operating career counseling programs
• C) promoting creativity and innovation at the workplace
• D) modifying the basic norms of organizational culture
• E) making the organizational climate more formal

---

Definitions:

Physical Punishment

The use of physical force with the intention of causing a child to experience pain, but not injury, for the purpose of correction or control.

Operant Behaviour

A type of learning where behavior is controlled by consequences (reinforcements or punishments).

Conditional Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that becomes conditioned through association with an unconditioned stimulus.

Primary Reinforcer

A stimulus that satisfies a biological need, inherently reinforcing without prior learning.