To maintain harmony in a group, some team members may withhold unpopular opinions. This is known as what?

A) Collaboration
B) Non performance
C) Groupthink
D) Hidden agendas
E) Participative management

Answer: C
Explanation: C) Groupthink occurs when peer pressures cause individual team members to withhold contrary or unpopular opinions and to go along with decisions they don't really believe in. The result can be decisions that are worse than the choices the team members might have made individually.

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A) socialism. B) impatient capital. C) patient capital. D) communism.

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Emile owns Emile's Used Car Emporium. Several people work for him at the Emporium. When Emile is gone, he leaves one of his best salespersons, Meg, in charge. Over the years, Emile has given Meg the authority to contract with vendors, negotiate sales, and conclude car sales contracts in his name. One August, Emile takes a long vacation, leaving Meg in charge. While he is gone a hurricane hits

Florida where the Emporium is located, causing severe damage. Because Emile is floating down the Amazon, Meg cannot reach him for instructions. She decides that rather than leave the place in shambles, she will hire people to repair the Emporium. Meg hires a carpenter to rebuild a wall that was blown down by the storm. Phil, the carpenter, is busy at work on his scaffold when Meg's Scottish terrier Adam, who she keeps with her at work, plows into the scaffolding while chasing a cat. Phil is knocked off the scaffold and falls ten feet to the ground, suffering a broken leg. Suppose Meg, as part of her employment, pays Emile $100 per week so she may act as the go-between for car customers and financing companies, so she can get commissions from the financing companies. This kind of arrangement is known as: a. a general agency b. an agency coupled with an interest c. a universal agency d. a remunerative agency e. a non-gratuitous agency

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