Question

ou are currently a member of a consulting team working on a large project. You are allowed a lunch hour from noon to 1:00 PM daily.

Every day, your boss participates in a conference call from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM. You know this, and today, instead of returning from lunch at 1:00, you decide to extend your lunch until 1:45. This is an example of .

a. An explicit cost

b. proprietorship

c. discontent from residual claims

d, shirking

Answer 1

• Option d is the answer.
• This is an example of Shirking.
• Shirking is avoiding a responsibility. The person who has been considered in here is a member of a consultant group who works for a large project, and his allotted lunch time is till 1:00 PM. When he is failing to attend the conference even after knowing about the conference call, then the act can be considered as Shirking. Because the decision of extending the lunch till 1:45 is made by the person himself.