Exam 7: Motivation: From Concept to Application

In order to do a good job determining employee compensation levels,an organisation must balance:

You are a new employee with Acme,Inc.Your supervisor has explained your job to you and has indicated that you will have a great deal of control over your job once you become proficient at it.He compliments your history of accepting responsibility and suggests that you are to feel free to offer constructive criticism about the way that your job is structured. As a Theory Y-type individual,your supervisor can be expected to do all of the following except:

Individuals high in ________ seem to respond to negative feedback with increased effort and motivation.

As the compensation manager for a large manufacturer,Tony has been asked to restructure the reward systems in his organisation.Employees have suggested,more than once,that the current reward system is rather unfair for many employees.They've suggested that there are huge variations in performance levels for each role but employees still get the same pay. If Tony wanted to address this problem,he might consider: