Exam 6: Motivation and Performance

A __________ occurs when managers lump everyone together around the average,or middle,category; this gives the impression that there are no very good or very poor performers on the dimensions being rates.

The incentive value of __________ is based on the notion that "employee owners" will be motivated to work hard so that the organization will perform well and its stock price will rise.

Rankings,paired comparisons,and forced distributions are types of __________ performance appraisal methods.

Ranking is the most complex of all the comparative methods of performance appraisal.

__________ increases task variety by adding new tasks of similar difficulty to a job.

Which of the following are considered advantages of skill-based pay?

Activity measures of performance assess actual work results.

Although research supports the logic and theoretical benefits of merit pay,it also indicates that __________.

According to the integrated model of individual work motivation,a person's job performance is influenced most directly by all of the following EXCEPT:

Procter & Gamble uses the effort ? performance ? reward relationship in their management approach.

Changes in a job that are designed to increase job breadth are sometimes called __________.

All of the following are steps in a typical sequence of performance management EXCEPT:

To be meaningful,a performance appraisal system must be reliable and valid.

A(n)__________ lists a variety of dimensions thought to be related to high-performance outcomes in a given job and that the individual is accordingly expected to exhibit.

Describe each of the major alternative work arrangements.What are the advantages to the individual and/or organization in using these options? Suggested

Frederick Taylor and his contemporaries were primarily interested in job enlargement and job enrichment.

With __________,workers are paid for the breadth of capability and their willingness to use any skills needed by the company.

Frederick Taylor's principles of scientific management include all of the following EXCEPT:

A forced distribution method of performance appraisal can be problematic if most of the employees are truly superior performers or if most of them perform at about the same level.

When an employee is rated low on punctuality because the one incident of tardiness the day before the evaluation overshadows his usual promptness,the evaluator is experiencing the __________ in performance appraisal measurement.