Exam 6: Applied Performance Practices

When Adam Smith reported on how 10 pin makers working together could produce many times more pins, because they performed specialized tasks, Smith was describing the benefits of job enrichment.

Which of the following is most consistent with the idea that employees are expected to continuously learn skills that will keep them employed?

Job evaluation and skill-based pay plans are both considered:

The largest portion of most paycheques is based on the person's membership and seniority.

A video journalist is someone who performs all jobs previously done by a traditional news team-from operating the camera to reporting the story. Thus, a video journalist is an example of job enlargement and job enrichment.

Empowerment is known to

Forming natural work units tends to

Golden handcuffs is a term used to describe rewards which discourage employees from quitting because of deferred bonuses or generous benefits that are not available elsewhere.

Which of these statements about self-leadership is FALSE?

Gainsharing plans apply to production jobs, not to services such as medical operations.

Employees at CyberTech perform repetitive jobs that has resulted in boredom as well as repetitive strain injury. Technology makes it difficult to combine existing jobs, but the company wants to make employees more multi-skilled. Which of the following would best help CyberTech to improve this situation?

Which of the following is NOT a component of empowerment?

Companies are applying job specialization when employees are made directly responsible for specific customers and having them communicate directly with those customers.

Effective performance-based rewards should

According to your text, the likelihood of a person engaging in self-leadership depends on:

Employees are usually much more engaged in their work through intrinsic rather than extrinsic sources of motivation.