Sal, a production manager, knows that some of his employees are upset with a new corporate policy that eliminates a tuition reimbursement program. As a result, some of these employees are participating in soldiering. To eliminate soldiering, Sal should
A. reduce the use of scientific principles in planning work methods.
B. carefully select workers according to their abilities and give workers training.
C. reduce training, but increase MBO.
D. place workers in any task available, focusing on their interests and not their abilities.
E. increase diversity and MBO.
B. carefully select workers according to their abilities and give workers training.
Taylor believed that managers could eliminate soldiering by applying four principles of science: (1) evaluate a task by scientifically studying each part of the task (not use old rule-of-thumb methods); (2) carefully select workers with the right abilities for the task; (3) give workers the training and incentives to do the task with the proper work methods; and (4) use scientific principles to plan the work methods and ease the way for workers to do their jobs.
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a. Solutions are introduced. b. Consensus is reached on what the problem is. c. The manager now speaks, and the stakeholders remain silent. d. Stakeholders become more engaged in the process.
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
Future contingencies that are allocations do not have real information content for financial statement users.
______ theories of motivation explain the choices that people make about their behavior.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
Carson has opened up a new sports bar/restaurant in town. He has determined that his market segments are (1) students from the nearby college campus, (2) families with small children, and (3) young adult males. Carson now has to determine which of these segments will provide him with the best opportunity to maximize sales. The process of doing this is referred to as
A. positioning. B. segmenting. C. marketing. D. repositioning. E. targeting.