Exam 8: Pay Careers and Changing Employment Relationships

A goal of performance appraisal is to provide information for managerial decision making.

A realistic job preview (RJP) is a sales pitch designed to attract highly qualified employees.

In what way do spiral careers differ from transitory careers?

Lucy is a very hard worker but very critical of herself. At her last job she was always unsure of how she was performing and eventually quit because of the lack of feedback . She might have stayed if her manager had ________.

A ________ is a type of rating scale for appraising employee performance that defines specific behaviors, but does not ask raters to indicate their frequency.

One of the ways companies can help dual-career couples is by offering flexible working arrangements to allow employees to take time off when needed.

Dick Sines is a manager in the customer service department of Grand Prix Auto Parts. According to a recent performance appraisal, Dick was told he was spending too much time trying to solve problems with the computer system in his area and not enough time supervising employees. The MAIN purpose of this performance appraisal is to ________.

Observations of how coworkers are treated have little influence on the formation of psychological contracts.

Traits or individual differences alone are reliable predictors of performance.

________ are linked strictly to organizational performance.

Harvey is working at a retail store during the holidays. He is new to the organization and will only be working for a month. He MOST LIKELY has a ________ contract.

During the second career stage, organizational entry, people try to find a job that will be a good start to their chosen career.

In a ________, an employee's performance is evaluated by a variety of people who are knowledgeable about their behaviors.

In a ________, an employee is paid for each unit he or she produces.

The principle of ________ suggests that jobs of equivalent value to an organization should carry the same pay rates, without regard to the nature of the work itself or the personal characteristics of the people performing the work.

Because peer appraisals are subjective, they are not useful in measuring performance.

In transactional contracts, individuals focus primarily on extrinsic outcomes such as pay.

As college students prepare to graduate, they begin to try to find a job that will be a good start in the chosen career. Students try to learn as much as possible about potential jobs and organizations from sources ranging from college placement offices to career/job fairs to personal contacts. This is called the ________ stage.

Which of the following BEST enables individuals to determine if a specific job is a good fit for themselves?

The use of traits to evaluate worker performance has little motivational impact because traits are relatively durable and resistant to change in the short term.