Exam 6: Applied Performance Practices

Compared with women, men give money a lower priority in their lives.

Scientific management is most closely associated with

Job specialization is a form of job design

Empowerment is the process of putting employees in situations involving job rotation and job enlargement.

How do growth needs relate to the job characteristics model?

Which of these statements about empowerment is FALSE?

Discuss the benefits of job rotation in a manufacturing plant.

Job status-based rewards discourage employees from hoarding resources.

When applied to non-management employees, which of these has a relatively WEAK connection between the reward and individual effort?

Job status-based rewards:

Gainsharing plans focus on cost reductions and increased labour efficiency.

People with a high power distance give money a low priority in their lives.

Employees in jobs with high task variability have

The process of assigning tasks to a job, including the interdependency of those tasks with other jobs is called job management.

Busy Bee Ltd. has a large secretarial pool on the third floor of company headquarters where professional and lower-level managers have their reports and other documents word-processed. The tasks are received by the secretarial pool coordinator and assigned randomly (on an availability basis) to secretaries in the pool. The secretaries often do not know the managers or professionals for whom the word-processing assignment is being completed. They rarely find out about the quality of their work because revisions are often sent to other secretaries in the pool due to the rotating work assignment system. Some assignments involve simple word-processing while others require complex formatting using more sophisticated word-processing software. Some secretaries don't mind working in the pool, but most are there because it represents the entry-level secretarial position. They resent the lack of control over work assignments and look forward to being transferred to other secretarial jobs in the firm where there is more freedom to schedule their own work activities. Turnover in the pool is much higher than for other support staff at Busy Bee Ltd. Would job enlargement (combining tasks) be an effective job design strategy for employees in Busy Bee's secretarial pool?

Compare and contrast gainsharing with employee share ownership plans.

Self-leadership has become increasingly important in contemporary organizations. Identify and describe any three components of self-leadership. Then explain how each of those three

Forming natural work units tends to increase task identity and task significance.

One element of self-leadership involves keeping track of our progress toward goals

Task analyzability is an information processing demand