Exam 8: Motivation: From Concepts to Applications

Core-plus plans consist of ________.

How would you relate skill variety, job rotation, and skill-based pay?

Jobs with high autonomy give incumbents a feeling of personal responsibility for the results.

Job design is defined as the ________.

Managers at Flavors, a restaurant chain, train their employees such that in the absence of employees, someone trained in the same skills can step in and do the job equally well. Thus, many modules in training are extensive as they provide employees with details of the skill sets required for different jobs. In practice, this lengthy training program does help the company as a well-trained and flexible workforce is at their disposal at all times. The managers at Flavors use ________.

Telecommuting is an option that suits professionals like ________.

An arrangement that allows two or more individuals to split a traditional 40-hour-a-week job is called ________.

Individualized rewards by allowing each employee to choose the compensation package that best satisfies his or her current needs and situation are called ________.

In which of the following variable-pay programs is the pay level based on how many skills employees have or how many jobs they can do?

Participative management is a method of management where ________.

Explain how participative management can enhance skill variety, task identity, and autonomy as described in the Job Characteristics Model (JCM).

At Esco Retail, all employees are constantly driven to work hard. The company places maximum emphasis on stocking high quality goods and providing high quality service to retain the edge they have in the retail industry. To promote organizational commitment further, employees are incentivized by enabling them to purchase company shares at below-market prices as a part of their benefits. This mode of providing incentives represents the use of ________.

Which of the following statements is true regarding employee recognition?

The ________ pay plan has long been popular as a means of compensating production workers by paying a fixed sum for each unit of production completed.

A variable-pay program bases a portion of an employee's pay on some individual and/or organizational measure of performance.

A flexible benefits package is designed for a male with a wife and two children at home.

Task identity is defined as the degree to which a job requires a variety of different activities so the worker can use a number of different skills and talent.

The two most common forms of representative participation are ________ and board representatives.

Flexible spending plans allow employees to set aside pretax dollars up to the dollar amount offered in the plan to pay for particular benefits, such as health care and dental premiums.

Employees who use the flextime option have to ________.