Vincenza is an accountant whose client list includes an array of Fortune 500 companies. She has developed algorithms that have saved her clients millions of dollars, and as many satisfied customers have said, her solutions are often unexpected, but always legal and always effective. Yet Vincenza says that the real star in her family is her younger sister Siena, whose poetry has been published in a number of journals. Siena's poetry does not pay the bills, but it did get her noticed by a major publisher, who employed her to work in their mail room-a job that has given Siena the opportunity to meet a number of famous authors. In terms of organizational behavior, the best way to describe the difference between Vincenza's and Siena's jobs is to say that Vincenza's job ________ than Siena's.
A) is much more involved in creative task performance
B) requires a good deal more education
C) has more to do with routine tasks
D) involves much less creativity
E) pays much more

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Creative task performance is the degree to which individuals develop ideas or physical outcomes that are both novel and useful. Although you might be tempted to believe that creative task performance is only relevant to jobs such as artist and inventor, its emphasis has been increasing across a wide variety of jobs. The solutions Vincenza offers her clients are both novel and useful, whereas Siena's job-even if it is for a publisher of creative works-most likely involves much more routine tasks. And while Vincenza's job may indeed pay more and require more education, those are not matters related directly to organizational behavior in general or task performance in particular.

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