Exam 8: motivation and Empowerment

How can leaders address the carrot and stick controversy?

Job enrichment is a program that links at least a portion of employees pay on the number of skills he or she possesses.

Critics of carrot-and-stick methods argue that carrot-and-stick approaches destroy people's motivation to work as a group.

According to Hertzberg's two-factor theory, the leader's role is to:

____________________ are the second dimension of Herzberg's two-factor theory which involves job satisfaction and meeting higher-level needs such as achievement, recognition, responsibility, and opportunity for growth.

How can leaders address the carrot and stick controversy?

____________________ is a motivational approach that encourages people to work together rather than focus on individual achievements and rewards and ties additional pay to improvements in overall employee performance.

Extinction is the administration of a pleasant and rewarding consequence following a behavior.

Employee engagement means that people:

Equity theory proposes that people are motivated to seek social equity in the rewards they expect for performance.

Empowerment is power sharing, the delegation of power or authority to subordinates in the organization.

What is motivation? Why is it important for leaders to understand motivation?

____________________ refers to the forces either internal or external to a person that arouse enthusiasm and persistence to pursue a certain course of action

When workers are not motivated to achieve organizational goals, the fault is often with the leader.

Pay for knowledge programs:

People with a high need for achievement tend to enjoy work that is entrepreneurial and innovative.

Incentive programs are unsuccessful because people are not motivated by money and lower needs.

The biggest difference in whether people feel engaged at work is:

Employees who are actively disengaged:

The importance of motivation is: