The Safety Committee at Office Supply Mart was formed to help make the store a safer place, and some of the committee's suggestions are going to be costly. During the committee meeting, the vice president of accounting announced that company profits were much lower than expected, and she suggested that profits are more important than safety. The profit goal is now outweighing the committee's safety goal, which is an example of
A. goal bumping.
B. groupthink.
C. secondary placement.
D. satisficing.
E. goal displacement.
E. goal displacement.
Although the primary task of the meeting may be to solve a particular problem, other considerations may rise. Goal displacement occurs when the primary goal is subsumed by a secondary goal.
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