Exam 6: Motivation in Practice

Your organization is considering implementing a merit pay plan in the hopes of increasing employee's and manager's motivation and satisfaction.However,you are concerned about this because they want to maintain pay secrecy.You have arranged to meet with management to discuss this with them.What will you tell them about pay secrecy and how it might impact the effectiveness of the merit pay plan?

Describe how you would design a job in accordance with relational job design and provide an example of such a job.

The system of pay which pays on the basis of the number of job skills acquired is called ________.

What is the motivating potential score (MPS)for a job in which all five core characteristics are scored "4" on the Job Diagnostic Survey?

Which of the following is NOT a contingency factor for choosing motivational practices?

If your company allows employees to work at their business office,a satellite office,and/or a home office,what kind of program do they have?

Telecommuting is positively related to job performance in part because it increases employees' perceptions of ________.

When workers are paid according to the performance of their work group,the relationship between individual pay and productivity decreases as the group gets bigger.

If your job has been redesigned so that you are given more boring,fragmented,routine tasks to do,what has happened?

Your organization is considering implementing a merit pay plan.However,you are concerned about this because many such systems are in fact ineffective.You have arranged to meet with management to discuss this and you need to provide them with some evidence of why merit pay plans are often ineffective and what can be done to make them more effective.What will you tell them?

A variable that influences the extent to which a job that is high in motivating potential will lead to favourable outcomes is called a ________.

Unions have traditionally been very active in demanding job enrichment.

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

A company is thinking about enriching a certain job.Which of the following factors would suggest that this strategy is incorrect?

The Scanlon Plan is a group-oriented rather than an individual-oriented pay plan.

The desire to expend effort to benefit other people is known as ________.

Flex-time and telecommuting are examples of flexible work arrangements that provide flexibility in terms of when employees work.

Profit sharing works best in ________ that regularly turn a profit.

Managers have a tendency to ________ the pay of their boss and ________ the pay of their employees.

What does the relational architecture of jobs mean and what are its implications for job design?