An intervention in an office setting leads employees to be pleased that the management is interested in their welfare.If the employees' performance improves in this situation,the researcher should be concerned about potential
A) novelty effects such as the Hawthorne effect.
B) lack of discontinuity in the time series.
C) Campbell effects.
D) contamination effects.

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The Hawthorne effect refers to the tendency for individuals to modify their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed. In this scenario, the intervention in the office setting has drawn management's attention to employee welfare, which may motivate employees to perform better. This could be a result of the novelty of the intervention rather than any actual changes in employee behavior or productivity. The researcher should be concerned about potential novelty effects, such as the Hawthorne effect, that could artificially inflate the observed improvement in performance.

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