The Essential Factor in Maintaining Social Stability in an Organization

question 40

Multiple Choice

The essential factor in maintaining social stability in an organization is:

• A) managing conflict and change in the organization.
• B) encouraging social networking among employees.
• C) increasing the gap between espoused and enacted values.
• D) instituting performance-based incentives.
• E) developing a clan culture rather than a market culture.

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Definitions:

Spreading Activation

A mechanism within associative networks that explains how information is retrieved in the brain, where thinking about one concept activates related concepts.

Lexical Decision Task

A psychological experiment in which participants decide as quickly as possible whether a given string of letters is a real word or a non-word.

Spreading Activation

A method in cognitive science that explains how information is retrieved in the human brain, suggesting ideas in memory are connected and that activating one idea naturally leads to the activation of related ideas.

Lexical Decision Task

A psychological experiment where participants decide as quickly as possible whether a string of letters is a real word or a non-word.