Exam 16: Multiple Choice Questions

When implementing job enrichment, vertical loading increases

"Vertical loading" of a job results in combined tasks and increased autonomy.

Diagnosis is not as critical in job design as in other OD interventions.

There is little evidence to support job enrichment programs.

Professional work that requires high levels of employee self-control usually involves low degrees of technical uncertainty.

Which of the following place constraints on job enrichment interventions?

Describe the motivational approach to job design. What are the key dimensions that lead to high work quality and internal motivation?

Which is not a core dimension of jobs?

Discuss sociotechnical systems theory and contrast it with the open systems theories of organization development?

Which statement is not characteristic of self-managed work groups?

Which is not a principle of sociotechnical systems design?

Which statement is "true" of the sociotechnical approach to work design?

When technical interdependence is low and uncertainty is high, and where people have low social needs yet high growth needs, which work design would you recommend?

Job enrichment always increases employee satisfaction.

Discuss the technical and personal-need factors that affect work design success?

Traditional jobs that show little need for worker cooperation are characterized as

Counselor, or facilitator, would be a more appropriate title than self-managed work group leader.

Which of the following best describes work designs that incorporate sociotechnical systems?

Which quality (ies) are common for people with high growth needs?

Employees with low social and personal growth needs are not very good employees, and should be regarded as "expendable."