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Understanding Business

12th Edition

ISBN:9781259929434

Author:William Nickels

Publisher:William Nickels

Chapter1: Taking Risks And Making Profits Within The Dynamic Business Environment

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Problem 1CE

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Alyssa is an assistant manager in a retail chain. She is awarded the "Best Worker of the Year", award for her consistent performance. When the opportunity for a promotion arises, she is ignored and one of her male colleagues is promoted instead. She is as qualified as her male colleague but is passed over for the promotion. This is potentially an example of:

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the achievement gap.

affirmative action.

the glass ceiling.

racial discrimination.

An organization's stated public policy is that it is committed to environmental protection. It has a waste recycling department to filter chemically charged waste. However workers are instructed to ignore any such directive as the whole operation is very expensive. Therefore everyday thousands of gallons of chemically contaminated waste is released into the nearby water bodies damaging the local ecosystem. This is an example of:

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cultural expensing.

company resource conservation.

cultural dissonance.

resource divergence.

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