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Which of the following exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine protects whistle-blowers?

A company that produces home appliances recently introduced a new line of refrigerators that use advanced cooling technology to reduce energy consumption. This innovation has made the refrigerators highly popular among environmentally conscious consumers. In the context of the general environment, this scenario best illustrates the effect of the:

The country recently experienced a drastic increase in inflation. This led to the depreciation in the value of its currency and affected trade and business drastically. In the context of the general environment, this scenario best illustrates the effect of the:

In the context of progressive discipline, which of the following refers to following unacceptable behavior with some type of negative consequences?

Adelint Inc., a retail store chain, had been incurring high costs and hence downsized its workforce to increase its profits. However, the company’s business grew over the next 6 months, and it had to recruit many new employees. The company hence ended up incurring the usual high infrastructure costs as well as the cost of recruiting the new employees. Instead of downsizing its workforce, Adelint Inc. could have _____

The key to successful termination of an employee is _____.

A team manager requested additional resources for a project but was denied, leading to its failure. During a company gathering, a senior manager publicly blamed the team manager’s incompetence. The team manager filed a suit against the company on the grounds of public defamation and won the case. The company incurred losses because it had to pay a hefty sum as compensation. In the context of the general environment, this scenario best illustrates the effect of the:

In the context of downsizing, which of the following describes employees who feel guilty over keeping their jobs when others lost their jobs?

According to a study of the effects of rightsizing conducted in the 1990s, the firms where the decline in employment was less than 5 percent from 1980 to 1994, but the decline in plant and assets during the same period was at least 5 percent greater than the decline in employment were called _____.

Managers and their team members started working overtime but worked slower and deliberately introduced errors in the work they were given. In the context of scientific management, this behavior of the workers is known as: