Sonja was not promoted to the position of manager of the road work crew because her boss doesn't feel that a woman can supervise as well as a man. This an an example of _____.

Which of the following statements is true of high-performance work systems?

A. Creating a high-performance work system is akin to using traditional management practices. B. To function as a high-performance work system, people, technology, and organizational structure must be completely independent of one another. C. To develop a high-performance work system, organizations need to determine what kinds of people fit their needs and then locate, train, and motivate those special people. D. A high-performance work system usually excludes reward systems. E. Integrated high-performance work practices usually have little impact on productivity and long-term financial performance.

In order to examine whether a sample could have come from a given type of population distribution

(e.g., Poisson or the normal distribution), chi-square analysis involves the comparison of a table of observed frequencies with a table of expected frequencies that has been constructed under the assumption that the null hypothesis is true.