There is a special project division at Empire Consulting in which teams select which projects the teams wants to pursue rather than simply being assigned a project by the manager. At their monthly meeting, a team is trying to decide whether to take on a project regarding infrastructure budgeting or one in which they focus on employee performance levels companywide. Which part of motivational effort is primarily being assessed in the meeting?
a. initiation of effort
b. direction of effort
c. persistence of effort
d. intensity of effort
b. direction of effort
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