Exam 6: Applied Performance Practices

Self-leadership provides a different way of thinking about motivating employees.Identify and fully describe three of the elements of the self-leadership model and briefly explain how self-leadership differs from other applied motivation practices.

Which of the following is true about skill-based pay plans?

All employees feel more motivated to perform their jobs when the core job characteristics are increased.

Which of the following is an individual incentive?

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

Employees are more likely to feel empowered in jobs with a high degree of autonomy, task identity, and task significance.

Cycle time is the time required to complete the task before starting over with another item or client.

Task significance is the degree to which the job affects the organization and/or larger society.

Which of the following type of reward systems uses job evaluations?

Briefly explain the benefits and problems of job specialization.

Self-leadership borrows ideas from social learning theory and research in sports psychology on constructive thought processes.

An advantage of competency-based rewards is that measuring employee competencies is mostly done through objective measurement methods.

Employees experience more meaningfulness when working in jobs that allow them to receive feedback about their performance and accomplishments.

Team rewards are better than individual rewards when employees work in highly interdependent jobs because:

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.

Employee stock ownership plans give employees the right to purchase company stock at a predetermined price up to a fixed expiration date.

A video journalist's job consists of operating the camera, reporting the story, and often editing the work, whereas these three tasks were traditionally performed by three people.Video journalism is an example of:

Task identity is the degree to which the job has a substantial impact on the organization and/or larger society.

Self-leadership suggests that goals should be set by the employee's supervisor with or without the employee's involvement.

Employee stock ownership plans and stock options are two types of organizational-level performance-based rewards.