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According to the Rule of One-Eighth,

A) at least 88 percent of organizations will do everything necessary to put people first and thereby build profits.
B) at best 12 percent of organizations will actually do what is required to build profits by putting people first.
C) 75 percent of organizations won't believe the connection between how they manage their people and the profits they earn.
D) 38 percent of the organizations try to make a single change to solve their problems.
E) one in eight organizations miserably fails at making the people to profit connection.

F) A) and B)
G) D) and E)

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According to the method of experience,people hold firmly to some belief because scientific studies have tended to replicate results using a series of samples,settings,and methods.

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The strength of a correlation can be inferred from the "compactness" of its scatterplot.

The theories and concepts found in OB are drawn from two disciplines: human resources management and strategic management.

Causal inferences means establishing that one variable really does cause another.

The resource-based view suggests that a resource is more valuable when it is _____.

Which of these is one of the conditions necessary to establish causal inferences?

Which of the following methods suggests that people hold firmly to some belief because some respected official,agency,or source has said it is so?

Trust,justice,and ethics capture what employees feel when thinking about their jobs and doing their day-to-day work.

Proponents of evidence-based management argue that human resources should be transformed into a sort of R&D department for managing people.

To counter the effects of a bad product,effective management of OB can help make the product get better,incrementally,over the long term.

Meta-analyses cannot form the foundation for evidence-based management.

Strategic management focuses on the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organization's profitability.

Identify the key individual outcomes in the studies of organizational behavior and describe the factors that affect these key outcomes.

Which of the following takes the theories and principles studied in OB and explores the applications of those principles in organizations?

Which of the following focuses on the product choices and industry characteristics that affect an organization's profitability?