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ts19998

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An employee who works four 10-hour days is most likely working under which of the following arrangements?
 
  A) flextime
  B) telecommuting
  C) compressed work week
  D) executive job sharing plan

Question 2

Sonia Soans is a corporate trainer. One of her favorite ways to start a training program is to present a case study and encourage members to think of the case in depth and discuss it amongst each other.
 
  Using the results of the activity, she understands the baseline measures of the group's functioning. During one of her recent sessions, she observed that the group came to a consensus very quickly. However, when asked to present their views, the team members were not too confident and appeared to be under an illusion of unanimity. From this scenario, we can say that this group experienced ________.
  A) diversity
  B) groupshift
  C) role conflict
  D) groupthink
  E) social loafing


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Answer to Question 1

Answer: C

Answer to Question 2

D
Explanation: D) Groupthink relates to norms and describes situations in which group pressures for conformity deter the group from critically appraising unusual, minority, or unpopular views.



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