Exam 7: Motivation Concepts

Gloria thinks that she is paid less than other workers in her division and feels extremely resentful. She starts taking long breaks and generally wasting time. Her actions result due to a perceived ________ injustice.

The degree to which an employee believes it is meaningful to engage in work is partially determined by access to sufficient resources to work effectively.

According to McClelland's theory of needs, when jobs have a high degree of personal responsibility and feedback and an intermediate degree of risk, high achievers are strongly motivated.

You manage a department of five employees. You have identified that Joe has high need for achievement, Mary has high need for power, and Tim has high need for affiliation. Sarah scored high on the need for power and low on the need for affiliation. Doug scores low on both need for power and need for affiliation. -Which of these five employees would be best suited as a mentor to new employees with a chance to develop friendships?

According to Douglas McGregor's Theory Y, a manager assumes that employees ________.

In equity theory, individuals assess the ________.

If we consider Maslow's hierarchy of needs in the context of Japan, Greece, and Mexico, where uncertainty-avoidance characteristics are strong, then ________ needs would be on top of the hierarchy.

Which of the following statements is true regarding a management by objective (MBO) program?

Self-inside is one of the four referent comparisons mentioned in the equity theory and it refers to ________.

The two-factor theory proposes that ________.

McClelland's theory of needs concentrates on which three needs?

You graduated from college two years ago and began working at Hampstead Electronics. You have received good performance evaluations and a raise. You just found out that your organization has hired a recent college graduate with no experience at a higher salary than you are now making. You consider this an unfair act and resolve to do something about it. -According to equity theory, the referent comparison used by you in this example is ________.

Which of the following theories proposes that people prefer to feel they have control over their actions, so anything that makes a previously enjoyed task feel more like an obligation than a freely chosen activity will undermine motivation?

If factors such as acceptance of the goals are held constant, the easier the goal, the higher the level of performance.

McClelland's theory of needs proposes that the factors that lead to job satisfaction are separate and distinct from those that lead to job dissatisfaction.

Describe Maslow's hierarchy of needs including the types of needs and how they become dominant.

Individuals low in self-efficacy seem to respond to negative feedback with increased effort and motivation.

Which of the following statements is true according to the two-factor theory?

Which of the following statements is true regarding the cognitive evaluation theory?

Which of the following ways of increasing self-efficacy is generally used by motivational speakers?