Exam 6: Applied Performance Practices

Jobs with a high level of task significance provide freedom,independence and discretion in scheduling the work and determining the procedures to be used to complete the work.

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

Self-leadership includes the practice of self-reinforcement.

What is meant by job specialisation and what are some of the benefits and problems associated with this practice?

___________ are often 'golden handcuffs' that potentially increase continuance commitment.

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

Explain why money is a meaningful reward for people in an organisational setting.

A rubber recycling plant employed 150 unskilled and relatively low-paid production employees.Although employees were unhappy about their pay levels as well as noise and heat in the plant,most had high seniority because there were many other employment opportunities in the community.To motivate the workforce,the new plant manager decided to enrich the production jobs by giving them a wider variety of tasks to perform and giving them more autonomy regarding when they performed those tasks.However,rather than increase job performance,the changes resulted in more complaints from employees,higher absenteeism due to stress and a slight increase in turnover.Based on your knowledge of job design,explain why these results may have occurred.

Which of these statements about empowerment is FALSE?

Employees are less likely to engage in self-monitoring in companies that emphasise continuous measurement of performance.

Job enlargement increases skill variety.

Share option plans:

What are the five elements that make up the self-leadership strategy?

Forming natural work units tends to:

Employees assembling complete computer modems would have lower task identity than those assembling only one component and passing it along to others for further assembly.

Job enrichment usually:

When jobs are highly interdependent,employers should: