Author Question: Company rules state that employees are not late if they arrive within seven minutes of their ... (Read 74 times)

geodog55 · **on:** Jul 7, 2018

Company rules state that employees are not late if they arrive within seven minutes of their assigned starting time. If anyone is late more than three times, however, they are suspended without pay for a week.

Samuel is eight minutes late today because a tornado knocked out
electricity in his town and the storm afterward caused widespread flooding and traffic jams.
Samuel's boss wrote him up for being late anyway, even though he was the first worker to arrive
today. What behavior is Samuel's boss exhibiting?
A) Hoarding B) Buck passing
C) Abdication D) Playing it by the numbers

Question 2

Daryl is afraid to make wrong decisions or to overstep his authority, so he sends his decisions up to his boss. Daryl is employing what type of decision making?

A) Affective decision making B) Conflict-based decision making
C) Buck-passing decision making D) Delayed decision making