Answer the following question. Despite downsizings, workers' overall job satisfaction actually improved between 1988 and 1994. Some reasons given were improved work flow, better cooperation between departments, and increased fairness in supervision. Many firms today rely on attitude surveys to monitor how employees feel about working in their firms.
The use of employee attitude surveys had grown since 1944 when the National Industrial Conference Board "had difficulty finding fifty companies that had conducted opinion surveys". If the survey is computerized reports can be generated with ease to provide snapshots of given period of time , trend analysis and breakdowns. While there may be some risk that employees will take the survey more than once, there are comparable risks with other methods too.
Which word in the passage means tendency'?

Options

A. Trend
B. Convenient
C. Breakdowns
D. Perceptions