Question

Citrus Inc., a leading Internet service provider, provides its top managers with a bonus every year. However, this year the company performed poorly and its average stock price dropped below the industry standards. The company decided not to reward the managers this time around. This scenario typically illustrates the reinforcement contingency of _____.

Answer 1

Contingency of extinction

Step-by-step explanation:

Base on the scenario been described in the question, it clearly illustrates the Contingency of extinction

Contingency of extinction is when the reinforcement for a particular behaviour is removed either as a result of a change in the environment, or as an intentional management strategy as we can see in the case where the manager normally gives bonus every year but removed it because that year the company performed poorly and its average stock price dropped below the industry standards so it removed the bonus .

Answer 2

Extinction

Step-by-step explanation:

Contingency of extinction occurs when previously reinforced behaviours are removed or changed as a result of changes in the environment. In this scenario, the behaviours that was changed in the current year was the payments of bonuses to top managers. The changes in the environment was the poor performance and average stock price dropping. It resulted in the top managers not receiving their annual bonuses this time.