The Globalization of Business and Changing Demographic Trends Will Present

question 91

Multiple Choice

The globalization of business and changing demographic trends will present organizations with a tremendously culturally diverse workforce which represents the risk that:

• A) prejudices and stereotypes will prevent managers and employees from developing a synergy.
• B) employee families will not be left intact and this could cause a drop in productivity.
• C) values will begin to erode.
• D) opportunities will not be available to employees within the organization and outside the organization.

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Definitions:

Self-Serving Bias

A common cognitive bias where individuals attribute positive events to their own character but attribute negative events to external factors.

Actor-Observer Effect

A cognitive bias in which people tend to attribute their own actions to external circumstances but attribute others' actions to their personalities or character.

Primacy Effect

The tendency to remember the first pieces of information in a series better than the information in the middle.

Computer Programming

The process of designing, writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining the source code of computer programs.