Question

The Safety Committee at Office Supply Mart was formed to help make the store a safer place, and some of the committee's suggestions are going to be costly. During the committee meeting, the vice president of accounting announced that company profits were much lower than expected, and she suggested that profits are more important than safety. The profit goal is now outweighing the committee's safety goal, which is an example of?

Answer 1

Goal displacement

Step-by-step explanation:

Goal displacement is simply defined as the outweighing of a firm's goal by another goal despite the importance of both goals to the firm. It can also said to mean the change in goal of a firm from one to another.

In goal displacement, a firm might have a goal set but due to certain circumstances as seen in the above question, another goals presents itslef as more important.

In the above question, safety was the initial goal of the company but when the Vice president of accounting pointed out the need for increased profits, the goal of the company changed towards profit earning as the aim of any business is to make profits.

That change from a security goal to a profit making goal is called goal replacement

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