Exam 7: Motivation: Goal Setting and Reward Programs

Which mediator in the goal-setting model focuses behaviors on activities expected to result in goal achievement and steers the individual away from activities irrelevant to achieving the goals?

Goal commitment is likely to be stronger if the commitment is made publicly.

One of the six factors on which the ability of rewards to motivate individuals or a team to high performance is durability.Durability means that some rewards last longer than others.

When goals are ____,performance will tend to be lower.

Goal setting has three motivational aspects: goals direct attention,goals regulate effort,and goals increase persistence.

The effort encouraged by challenging goals when task complexity is low leads directly to:

To survive in today's global competitive market,setting challenging goals that take into account time and quality and provide feedback to employees is:

This mediator in the goal-setting model involves a person's willingness to work at the task over an extended period of time until the results are achieved.

The limitation of individuals and teams not likely to have an impact on overall organizational performance is characteristic of what reward system?

The premise of the goal-setting model is that a goal works as a motivator because it allows people to compare their present performance with that required to achieve the goal.

According to Diversity Competency: Lockheed Martin MS2 Team: The MS2 team established two key goals: (1)to reach at least 75 percent of employees and (2)to establish a baseline of employee understanding of what constitutes a diverse environment.

The ability of rewards to motivate individuals or a team to high performance depends on four factors,which included timeliness,performance contingency,equity,and effort.

Feedback impacts goal setting by providing information about:

If a person is told simply to "do their best",their performance will be lower than if they are given specific goals.

According to the Diversity Competency: Lockheed Martin MS2 Team: the objective of the MS2 team was to:

The ability of rewards to motivate individuals or teams to high performance are effected by all of the following except:

Performance based reward systems sometimes have undesirable effects on behavior.

More than one-third of the companies that use profit sharing do not track the results of such programs.

All of the following impact goal commitment except:

What might happen if an individual who had been satisfied with his organization becomes dissatisfied?