Exam 12: Motivating Employees

One weakness of the use of punishment in organizations is that it fails to indicate the correct behavior.

Which of the following is NOT a common method for reducing a perceived inequity?

The job characteristic of autonomy influences the worker's experiencing meaningfulness of work.

Goal specificity,in goal-setting theory,refers to the difficulty level of goals.

Content theories concern the thought processes that influence behavior.

According to SPOTLIGHT ON SKILLS in Chapter 12,a criticism of carrot-and-stick approaches is that extrinsic rewards assume people are driven by higher-level needs.

____________________ are the most basic human physical needs,including food,water,and oxygen.

Job enlargement is a job design that incorporates achievement,recognition,and other high-level motivators into the work.

____________________ are high-level needs and include achievement,recognition,responsibility,and opportunity for growth.

According to Herzberg,____ is an example of a hygiene factor.

____________________ incorporates high-level motivators into the work,including job responsibility,recognition,and opportunities for growth,learning,and achievement.

The altering of jobs to increase both the quality of employees' work experience and their productivity is called reorganization.

Freedom from violence in the workplace is an example of physiological needs on the hierarchy of needs spectrum.

A high need for ____ is associated with successful attainment of top levels in the organizational hierarchy,according to McClelland.

Which need describes the desire to be accepted by one's peer,have friendships,be part of a group,and be loved?

____ systematically moves employees from one job to another,thereby increasing the number of different tasks an employee performs without increasing the complexity of any one job.

____________________ is the degree to which the worker has freedom,discretion,and self-determination in planning and carrying out tasks.

List the four content theories discussed in your text.

A motivation theory based on the relationship between a given behavior and its consequences is called the ____________________.

Scenario - Donovan Zorn Donovan Zorn was a successful manager for one of the subsidiaries at Eagles Unlimited. He was responsible for 232 workers and had a span of control of eight lower level managers. Donovan has decided to try to increase performance and productivity by the careful use of motivational theories. -The hygiene factors,or dissatifiers,that Donovan can influence include all of the following EXCEPT