Exam 16: Motivating Employees

_____ incorporates high-level motivators into the work, including job responsibility, recognition, and opportunities for growth, learning, and achievement.

Extinction is defined as the withdrawal of positive reward.

Which of the following describes the value or attraction an individual has for an outcome?

Explain employee growth-need strength and its relationship to the job characteristics model.

Goal specificity, in goal-setting theory, refers to the difficulty level of goals.

Briefly explain expectancy theory.

Expectancy theory is a process theory that focuses on individuals' perception of how fairly they are treated in comparison to other people.

Valence is the perceived value of a reward or outcome.

The satisfaction received in the process of performing an action is also known as a(n) _____.

The frustration-regression principle is most closely related with _____.

_____ is the removal of an unpleasant consequence following a desired behavior.

Tim is a manager at Chuck's Construction. He sees little opportunity for advancement at Chuck's Construction, regardless of how well he performs. Which of the following expectancies is low for Tim?

Which term, in goal-setting theory, refers to the need to make goals highly ambitious but achievable?

Which of the following theories places an emphasis on behavior and its consequences?

Job rotation systematically moves employees from one job to another, thereby increasing the number of different tasks an employee performs without increasing the complexity of any one job.

_____ theory suggests that motivation depends on individuals' expectations about their ability to perform tasks and receive desired rewards.

_____ describe the most basic human physical needs, including food, water and oxygen.

Factors that involve the presence or absence of job dissatisfiers, such as working conditions or pay, are known as _____.

Frank is primarily driven by a need to establish close social relationships with other people. Alderfer would say he is motivated by:

The equity theory, by J. Stacy Adams, states that equity exists when the ratio of outcomes to inputs for one person is equal to the same ratio for another person.