Exam 7: Motivation: From Concept to Applications

John is a design manager for a production company. He independently assigns teams, chooses projects, researches trends, and is able to work from home two to three days a week. He provides a status report to the design director once a month. Based on this description and as per the job characteristics model, it's safe to say that John's job is high in ________.

The ________ pay plan has long been popular as a means of compensating production workers by paying a fixed sum for each unit of production completed.

One of the methods of job enrichment is to expand jobs vertically. This method involves modifying the ________ dimension of the job.

Which of the following is a not a management benefit of telecommuting?

Which of the following is a form of recognition?

What is employee involvement and why is it important. What are the two major forms of employee involvement?

In which of the following variable-pay programs is the pay level based on how many skills employees have or how many jobs they can do?

Explain how participative management can enhance skill variety, task identity, and autonomy as described in the Job Characteristics Model (JCM).

According to research findings, which of the following is more likely to be motivating for the employees in the long run?

According to the job characteristics model, autonomy is defined as the degree to which ________.

Janice and Shunil are both senior software analysts. They have worked together on projects for six years and get along great. Janice is pregnant and anticipating the arrival of her first child and she is not willing to work fulltime. Shunil would like to experiment with opening his own business as a home media installation consultant, and does not want to continue to work full time. They both need some income. Which of the following alternative job structures would be best for Janice and Shunil?

Which of the following is not one of the methods of enriching jobs based on the job characteristics model?

Which of the following is the major drawback of job sharing from management's perspective?

Studies generally support the idea that organizations with profit-sharing plans have lower levels of profitability than those without them.

An employee in a gainsharing plan can receive incentive awards even if the organization isn't profitable.

Which of the following statements is true regarding an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)?

The periodic shifting of an employee from one task to another with similar skill requirements at the same organizational level is called job ________.

Research evidence on participative management indicates that it is a sure means for improving employee performance.

Which of the following is not one of the core job dimensions in the job characteristics model (JCM)?

Increasingly, research on motivation is focused on approaches that link motivational concepts to changes in the way ________ is structured.