Exam 6: Applied Performance Practices

Which of these statements about empowerment is FALSE?

Competency-based rewards tend to improve levels of product and service quality.

The first step in self-leadership is:

Companies should use individual-level performance-based pay when jobs are highly interdependent.

Which of the following is NOT an individual level performance reward?

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

Self-leadership calls for employees to engage in negative self-talk to help them recognize their limitations.

Empowerment flourishes in organizations that have a learning orientation culture.

At a television station,camera operators learned how to become reporters,while reporters learned to operate cameras.These jobs were then merged into the job of video journalist,which involved operating a camera and reporting the news.This change is an example of:

Share option plans:

Gainsharing plans are used mainly to measure performance of medical staff.

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

Job specialization increases work efficiency,and tends to increase employee motivation.

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

To increase an employee's feelings of experienced responsibility,we would:

Job enlargement primarily changes which of the following?

Companies sometimes introduce job rotation for reasons other than reducing job boredom.

Gainsharing plans tend to:

Motivator-hygiene theory highlights the idea that job content is an important source of employee motivation.

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