George Is a Manager for InnoBLAST Inc

Multiple Choice

George is a manager for InnoBLAST Inc., a web-based applications company. In an attempt to promote new ideas, George decides to allow his engineering team to devote 15 percent of their work time to whatever projects they would like to work on and reduces their assigned workload. He then institutes a 30-minute period each morning where the team members are asked to look over their current project list for the day and develop more knowledge about a task before they move on to work on their assigned tasks.
-George encourages employees to discover new ideas and advises them that reasonable mistakes are tolerated and expected in that discovery process. By doing this, George is helping to develop ________ in the work unit.

A) convergent thinking
B) the prospect theory effect
C) a learning orientation
D) cross-pollination
E) intuition