An organization requires its managers to "get away" for a few days and participate in a training program designed to increase their effectiveness as managers. Following the training program, managers often feel the training program was worthwhile; however, it is not uncommon for these managers to return to their operations and perform their old habits while ignoring the recently presented principles. This scenario is related to the issue of
a. transfer of training
b. massed practice
c. distributed practice
d. feedback
a
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a. rely on one evaluator who is shown to be objective for all employees. b. train his managers to sharpen their memory skills. c. teach managers to focus attention on job-relevant behaviors. d. minimize the time between employee performance and performance evaluation.
The term woman
a. moratorium b. sex-role preference c. autonomy d. gender identityrefers to the acquisition of a set of beliefs, attitudes, and values about oneself as a man or a
Describe Lawrence Kohlberg's research on how people think about moral issues. Answer the following questions: What inspired Kohlberg? In what type of research did he engage? Who were his subjects? How old were they? How did he conduct his research with them? How long did he gather data?
What will be an ideal response?
Jake and Laquan found a small bag of a greenish natural substance that looked like marijuana. They had never smoked pot, so Jake took a pipe from his older sister's room and they smoked several bowls. Soon the boys were laughing hysterically and having crazy visions. When Jake's sister walked in on the scene, she laughed even harder—because the "pot" they found was French herbs that she needed for her cooking class. What caused the boys to have this reaction to smoking the substance?
A. They expected to get high from it. B. It was treated with synthetic chemicals. C. Their nervous systems were immature. D. The smoke decreased oxygen to their brains.