1. Which of the following gives an example of a consensus? A. The new head of a company announces that there will no longer be any opportunities for employees to get overtime pay. B. A union representing the workers in a factory threatens to strike if the company does not meet its demands for a safer working environment. C. the management of business seeks to resolve issues by making sure a new policy has something that all of the workers have agreed to. D. a board of directors surveys the workers and puts into place a new policy that a majority of the workers had asked for.

C. the management of business seeks to resolve issues by making sure a new policy has something that all of the workers have agreed to.

Explanation:

A consensus is when everyone involved with the issue at hand agrees on something; it's not majority agrees, not minority agrees; it's everyone agrees.

Look at the answer choices:

A: "The new head of a company announces that there will no longer be any opportunities for employees to get overtime pay."

We can tell that the head is making decisions without consulting the opinions of the workers themselves, so this can't be a consensus. Eliminate A.

B: "A union representing the workers in a factory threatens to strike if the company does not meet its demands for a safer working environment."

This is similar to A except the situation is now flipped; the workers are trying to govern what they want, which is again not an example of consensus. Eliminate B.

C: "The management of business seeks to resolve issues by making sure a new policy has something that all of the workers have agreed to."

We see the key words "all of the workers have agreed to" and know that this must be talking about a consensus. C is correct.

D: "A board of directors surveys the workers and puts into place a new policy that a majority of the workers had asked for."

The words that jump out to us are "a majority of the workers", which clearly doesn't mean "all", so D is wrong.

Thus the answer is C.