Organization X offers monetary rewards to motivate their employees to work faster and be more productive. Organization Y motivates their employees with a leadership development program, empowerment, and job enrichment. What basic assumption is different for these two organizations?

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C) The difference in the way that these two organizations motivate their employees may reflect different basic assumption of human nature. Organization X pays rewards which may indicate that they need constant extrinsic incentives in order to perform their job. Organization Y provides opportunities that better support employees' intrinsic motivation for their jobs and the underlying assumption is that people are naturally motivated to work and develop their skills.

Organization X Offers Monetary Rewards to Motivate Their Employees to Work