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In CT, homeowners do not vote on zoning laws. To date, Simsbury allowed homeowners with less than half an acre to own chickens. A new town clerk responsible to farm animal zoning put through a new law that determined home owners with less than five acres can no longer own outdoor chickens. Homeowners that have been impacted by this new law now have to rehome their chickens. This is what type of power

Behavioral approach to decision making is based on what?

Tell me 5 things you learned, related to the material, in the last half of the semester that were not on the test (worth 5 extra-credit points) (you cannot provide just a word, you need to demonstrate that you know the concept.) 

Based on the Tukey HSD results, which degree group has a significantly higher mean income than the other groups?  

Dr. Smith and Dr. Jones are in conflict over who should receive the new corner office. They have talked with one another trying to convince the other person to withdraw their request for the office. They have been emailing the associate dean expressing why they should be the one to get the office. Dr. Smith has started sharing negative stories and gossip about Dr. Jones to other people on the floor and talking about how much more work he does and how much more he builds relationships with external stakeholders. This is an example of which stage of conflict:

At the beginning of the semester the School of Business Associate Dean emailed faculty to enforce that we each offer a minimum of five hours of student office hours. This is:

What is the difference between hearing and listening? (worth 3 points)

Justin is the VP of Marketing. He has brought his team of 15 employees together to start planning for the next marketing campaign. He needs his team to share their ideas so the team has many ideas to choose from. Once everyone is in the meeting room he describes what issues the marketing campaign needs to resolve. He then asks everyone to spend ten-fifteen minutes writing down their ideas. After fifteen minutes the team goes around in a circle with each member sharing one idea at a time. The team does not start discussing the ideas until everyone has had a chance to share all of their ideas. This is a form of what type of decision making:

Provide a question you could ask to measure ‘politics’ in the organizational setting and why that question can measure ‘politics’ (demonstrate your knowledge of the tutorial, not your own personal feelings or thoughts). (worth 4 points)

Groups and Teams are the same thing