Exam 7: Motivation: From Concept to Application

You have read about the merits of employee recognition programs.While you have a somewhat limited budget,you are willing to implement a program in your department. You have decided to let employees select a small group to represent them and work with management.This is termed:

Which of the following bases its reward on historical performance?

The distinct characteristic common to all participative management programs is the use of:

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. Your supervisor seems to possess ________ assumptions.

Non-financial incentives work best for which kind of motivation?

If employees are allowed to pick and choose from among a menu of benefit options,they are said to have:

Participation's influence on employee productivity,motivations and job satisfaction is quite modest.

Research studies conducted on the participation-performance relationship show that the use of participation:

Which of the following is not true about the two-factor theory?

________ refers to the vertical expansion of jobs.

Piece-rate wages have been around for more than a century.

What is participative management? Discuss its usefulness at the individual and organisational levels.

In expectancy theory,the probability perceived by the individual that exerting a given amount of effort will lead to performance is the ________ relationship.

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. Employees also state that some employees take three times the amount of time than other employees to complete the same task so another option Tony might consider is:

The element of motivation,which describes how hard a person tried is:

Boredom during the first week or two of a new job activity is a common problem with job rotation.

All of the following are important issues relating to goal-setting theory with the exception of:

While popular,there is not much evidence supporting the job characteristics model.

Research actively validates Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory.

According to Herzberg,pay is a motivation factor.