Exam 6: Applied Performance Practices

Job evaluations systematically evaluate the worth of each job within the organization by measuring its required skill,effort,responsibility and working conditions.

Motivator-hygiene theory suggests that people are mainly motivated by characteristics of the job itself,not by working conditions and other factors external to the job.

Job specialization increases work efficiency,but it tends to reduce employee motivation.

Which of the following systematically evaluates the worth of each job within the organization?

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

Job status-based rewards potentially motivate employees to compete with each other.

Which of the following practices explicitly includes self-reinforcement?

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.

The head of operations at NanoTech Systems announced that the company "empowers its employees to perform their jobs at peak performance." Discuss the operations manager's statement in the context of the meaning of empowerment.

In self-leadership,constructive thought patterns include:

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

Competency-based rewards pay employees based on their performance results.

Employees are empowered when they:

Gainsharing plans tend to:

Performance tends to decrease at very high levels of task specialization because:

A cable TV company redesigned jobs so that one employee interacts directly with customers,connects and disconnects their cable service,installs their special services and collects overdue accounts in an assigned area.Previously,each task was performed by a different person and the customer interacted only with someone at head office.This change is an example of:

The problem with membership and seniority-based rewards is that:

Which of these contemporary organizational behaviour practices was popularized by Fredrick Taylor in his work on scientific management?

Empowerment does which of the following?

Which of the following team reward motivate team members to reduce costs and increase labour efficiency in their work process?