Exam 6: Motivation in Practice

What pay plan provides employees with a sense of legal and psychological ownership?

Job crafting is effective because it increases employee's job ________.

Decreasing ________ job demands involves behaviours such as reducing one's workload or work-family conflict.

The effect of team-based financial incentives on performance has been found to be strongest in ________ teams.

To be effective, the implementation of MBO programs must have the

If your boss gives you more tasks to perform along with more responsibility and autonomy, then you are experiencing job enlargement.

Job enrichment and job enlargement both involve increasing the depth of a job.

Increasing social job resources involves behaviours to increase job characteristics.

According to the Job Characteristics Model, people with low growth need strength should respond best to jobs with a high motivating potential.

When a portion of employees' pay is based on a measure of performance, it is called ________.

"Core time" is

________ is a work arrangement that provides flexibility in terms of where employees work.

The most common compressed workweek is the ________ system.

Increasing structural job resources involves asking for feedback, advice, and support from supervisors and colleagues.

A primary focus of MBO is the nature of the interaction between top managers and middle managers.

________ are used to tie pay to performance on white-collar jobs.

The motivational practices used by the best companies are effective because they have a proven track record.

In order to redesign your jobs, your boss has just given you more boring, fragmented, routine tasks to perform at the same level.This is known as ________.

Increasing ________ job resources involves asking for feedback, advice, and support from supervisors and colleagues.

The choice of motivational practices requires a thorough diagnosis of the organization and the needs and desires of employees.