Exam 7: Motivation Concepts

The church you go to every Sunday is made up of people who have very different lifestyles and are at different stages in their life. Joanna is a 23-year-old, single parent who works for minimum wage and shifts from motel to motel for accommodation. Josephine is a single, 45-year-old woman who earns a decent salary and has few interests and friends outside her office. Jonathan is 60 years old, extremely wealthy, has a loving family, and enjoys his work. You have decided to apply Maslow's hierarchy of needs to determine what motivates each of these individuals. -Which of the following needs would most likely motivate Joanna?

Under Theory Y, managers believe that employees inherently dislike work and must therefore be directed or even coerced into performing it.

MBO provides individual employees with ________.

The ________ element of motivation describes how hard a person tries.

The investment of an employee's physical, cognitive, and emotional energies into job performance is called ________.

In the context of social learning, explain the four processes that determine a model's influence on an individual.

Oscar is looking for a new job. He used to be the company's top sales representative and was eagerly expecting to be promoted. However, one of the regional manager's friends was promoted to district manager instead. According to the expectancy theory, Oscar's dissatisfaction with his current job stems from a breakdown in the ________ relationship.

Which of following needs, as detailed by Maslow's hierarchy of needs, best corresponds to McClelland's need for affiliation?

Jim is a salaried employee whose job is to develop content for online web sites. He discovers that he is paid substantially more than his colleagues, even though their jobs and levels of performance are very similar. According to the equity theory, what impact is this discovery most likely to have on his behavior and performance?

With reference to the four sources of self-efficacy as proposed by Albert Bandura, verbal persuasion involves becoming more confident ________.

According to the two-factor theory proposed by Herzberg, which of the following is considered a hygiene factor?

________ is defined as the processes that account for an individual's intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal.

With reference to the expectancy theory, which of the following examples indicates a weak rewards-personal goals relationship?

The church you go to every Sunday is made up of people who have very different lifestyles and are at different stages in their life. Joanna is a 23-year-old, single parent who works for minimum wage and shifts from motel to motel for accommodation. Josephine is a single, 45-year-old woman who earns a decent salary and has few interests and friends outside her office. Jonathan is 60 years old, extremely wealthy, has a loving family, and enjoys his work. You have decided to apply Maslow's hierarchy of needs to determine what motivates each of these individuals. -Which of the following needs would motivate Jonathan the most?

Why is Maslow's theory criticized?

If Alberta is a categorized as a Theory X manager, which of the following behaviors is she most likely to exhibit?

Which of the following needs in Maslow's hierarchy refers to the drive to become what one is capable of becoming?

MBO emphasizes goals that are ________.

What are the four ways of increasing self-efficacy, as proposed by Albert Bandura?

Which of the following types of justice relates most strongly to job satisfaction, employee trust, withdrawal from the organization, job performance, and citizenship behaviors?