Exam 6: Applied Performance Practices

Which of these performance-based rewards tends to create the strongest psychological connection between the individual employee's work effort and the reward received?

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

Commissions and piece rates are examples of competency-based rewards.

Herzberg's motivator-hygiene theory led to a more serious study of:

Increasing the core job characteristics will not increase employee motivation for those who lack the required skills.

Most gainsharing plans:

Scientific management is most closely associated with:

When jobs are highly interdependent,employers should:

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

The job characteristics model identifies five core job characteristics and three psychological states.

Performance-based rewards have been criticized on the grounds that:

Scientific management is the process of systematically dividing work into its smallest possible elements and standardizing work activities to achieve maximum efficiency.

A gainsharing plan:

Executive dining rooms represent a form of job status reward.

The extent of a person's self-leadership is dependant on _________ and ________ factors.

Self-leadership is dependent on the person and the situation.

NuGlass Ltd.manufactures glass for commercial products.The production process has several interdependent tasks and employees in those tasks need to coordinate their work for maximum efficiency and effectiveness.Management wants each employee to learn several jobs so that the production group can be more flexible.Describe one type of reward system that would best motivate employees to learn several jobs,and identify a potential disadvantage of this reward system.

According to your text,which of the following is considered an individual incentive?

Mental imagery is one of the most beneficial outcomes of job enrichment.

Which of these factors,according to Herzberg,is a hygiene factor?