Question

Mrs. Jonas believes strongly that it is important that workers' rights be respected, and that one of the more important ways of doing this is to ensure that all workers be properly documented. She is supervising a contracting company that is building a new warehouse for her company. While doing this she discovers that many of the workers employed by the contractor are undocumented aliens working for well below minimum wage.
Mrs. Jonas is likely experiencing ________.

A) cognitive dissonance
B) unresolved anger
C) ethical evasion
D) uncertainty avoidance
E) social pressure

Answer 1

Answer:

A) cognitive dissonance

Explanation:

Mrs. Jonas believes strongly that it is important that workers' rights be respected, and that one of the more important ways of doing this is to ensure that all workers be properly documented. She is supervising a contracting company that is building a new warehouse for her company. While doing this she discovers that many of the workers employed by the contractor are undocumented aliens working for well below minimum wage. Mrs. Jonas is likely experiencing cognitive dissonance. She is experiencing cognitive dissonance, any incompatibility an individual might perceive between two or more attitudes or between behavior and attitudes.In cognitive dissonance , a person who is in a situation to experience contradictory belief, attitudes or ideas