Exam 7: Motivation: Goal Setting and Reward Programs

In cultures that do not focus on gender role orientation,all of the following is true of reward systems except:

Management by objectives (MBO)involves managers and employees jointly setting goals for performance and personal development,periodically evaluating the employee's progress toward achieving these goals,and then rewarding the employee.

Moderators of the strength of the relationship between goals and performance include all of the following except:

For simple tasks,the effort encouraged by challenging goals leads directly to higher task performance,while for more complex tasks,increased effort does not lead directly to effective performance.

Some organizations have resolved the problem of "topping out" in skill-based pay by installing a gain-sharing program after most employees have learned all the skills required.

The reward system in which employees tend to "top out" is:

According to the Teams Competency: Jeff Gordon's Rainbow Warriors,before the race,all the Rainbow Warriors sit in a circle to discuss race strategy.

The reward systems that is likely to require sophisticated computer systems is:

Goal difficulty should never be reduced because it will lower both satisfaction and performance.

Internal rewards include all of the following except:

Cardinal Health uses management by objectives to have employees identify several performance objectives that supports personal goals.

Benefits of flexible benefit plans include all of the following except:

The key factors influencing the establishment of challenging goals include all of the following except:

One of the disadvantages of flexible benefit plans is the difficultly to accurately predict the number of employees that might choose each benefit.Such uncertainty may affect the firm's group rates for life and medical insurance,because the costs of such programs are based on the number of employees covered.

All of the following are true of reward systems in high power distance cultures except:

Describe the four factors that moderate the strength of the relationship between goals and performance.

According to the Across Cultures Competency: Hewlett-Packard,Bonnie Nixon-Gardiner got Dell,IBM,Intel,and other companies to formulate the Electronic Industry Code of Conduct.This code bans abuses such as child labor,forced labor (use of prisoners),and excessive overtime.

Profit-sharing programs are very popular in Japan.

Most organizations spend more on merit pay than they do on employee benefits.

Skill-based pay compensates employees for the specific jobs they are performing in the organization.