Exam 6: Learning and Performance Management

All of the following are generally considered to be good characteristics of work goals except:

If two supervisors evaluated an employee's performance using the same set of rating scales but arrived at different conclusions or results, the evaluation instrument is:

Reinforcement and punishment represent:

The strongest way for an employee to develop self-efficacy is to:

Which of the following is NOT considered to be one of the four sources of task-specific self-efficacy critical to the social learning theory of Albert Bandura?

The process of modifying behavior so that a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus and elicits an unconditioned response is known as:

The first step in the performance measurement process is:

A key criticism of self-evaluations is:

The attempt to weaken a behavior by attaching no consequences to it is considered to be extinction.

The behaviorist approach to learning assumes that observable behavior is a function of:

Match the following: -Validity

Match the following: -Consensus

A fixed ratio of reinforcement is very similar to continuous reinforcement.

An important intermediate step between goal acceptance and goal accomplishment is:

The process of defining, measuring, appraising, providing feedback on, and improving performance is known as _____.

As a supervisor, you can enhance the performance of your employees by:

Match the following: -Positive consequence

Match the following: -Goal setting

Match the following: -Social learning theory

Individual (or employee) goal setting should precede organizational goal setting.