Exam 6: Applied Performance Practices

Compare and contrast gainsharing with employee share ownership plans.

Profit-sharing plans give employees the right to purchase shares of the company and eventually get rewarded through dividends from those shares.

Scientific management is most closely associated with:

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.

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

______ and ______ are typically organizational-level rewards.

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

Gainsharing plans apply to production jobs,not to services such as medical operations.

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.

Job evaluation and skill-based pay plans are both considered:

In 1436,the waterways of Venice were used to fully load 10 galleons with supplies in just six hours.As each vessel was towed along the narrow waterway,people at each house transferred munitions,cardage and other supplies to the passing vessel.By the end of the street,each vessel was fully loaded and ready for sailing.This event,which takes place in the 'Arsenal of Venice',is an early example of:

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:

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

Gainsharing plans focus on cost reductions and increased labour efficiency.

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

Two ways to enrich jobs are by clustering jobs into natural groups and by establishing client relationships.

One element of self-leadership involves keeping track of our progress toward goals.

ClamCo,a large energy company,was once a bureaucratic organization that valued long service and promotions through a steep hierarchy.After several years of difficult change,it is now a much flatter organization that places more responsibility with self-directed work teams.Explain what changes ClamCo probably made (or should have made)to align its reward system with this new corporate philosophy.

When jobs are highly interdependent,employers should:

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