Exam 10: Motivation and Safety Management Systems

When planning behaviour-based safety programs that include incentives,what do planners need to ensure?

Which of the following is a dimension for characterizing behavioural consequences?

How can HRMs best ensure that employees utilize the knowledge and skills gained during training and consistently perform their work duties in a safe manner?

Describe the four stages of the Plan-Do-Check-Act continuous improvement model and how each contributes to the organization's occupational health and safety management system.

Having a documented occupational health and safety management system raises the liability of the corporation in terms of regulatory compliance or in the event of a safety incident.

The tire plant where Tony works has explicitly enacted policies on safety,encourages safety-related training,and promotes safety.Which of the following does this plant have?

Which of the following represents an administrative intervention for improving occupational health and safety?

Goal-setting interventions focus on the power of internal rewards and punishment in the motivation of behaviour.

Eli is an entrepreneur who turned a small contracting company into a substantial property development operation.As his company has grown,he has realized safety needs to be integrated into all areas of company operations using interactive set of organizational approaches and programs.He is working with his management team and employees to develop and implement such a program.Which of the following are they implementing?

According to self-determination theory,what forms of extrinsic motivation result in more of a self-directed effort to work in safer ways?

Safety climate perceptions are only effective in predicting current behaviour.

A group of friends are studying for a safety certification.They have each made a goal to help keep them on track.All else equal,who is most likely to achieve his goal?

What equation defines safety performance?

Travis is a drilling supervisor in an oil field.Part of his job is to get the rig dismantled,moved,and set up on a new site as quickly and safely as possible.What dimension of transformational leadership is he demonstrating when he asks workers to try to identify safer ways of carrying out the move?

Which of the following describes the consequences of safe behaviour as encouraged by behaviour-based safety programs?

Setting and communicating high expectations for safe performance of work tasks is associated with what dimension of transformational leadership?

What is the basic model underlying most applications of behavioural programming in the workplace?

Define and give an example of engineering interventions,administrative interventions,and behavioural interventions.Which intervention is most effective?

According to the textbook,which employees should be eligible for safety incentives?

You are the new HR manager at a large warehouse facility and have just overheard one of the front line supervisors making the following statement to another supervisor: "If management provides safety equipment and training so employees have the knowledge,skills,and abilities to perform their jobs safely,then we shouldn't have a problem with safety on the job."