Exam 8: Pay Careers and Changing Employment Relationships

A ________ reflects a one-time commitment to a certain kind of job that is maintained throughout a person's working life.

All of the following are determinants of psychological contracts EXCEPT ________.

John Conroy and Mark Meyers are the two top producers in the fabricating department at Faye & Cy, Inc. In fact, their productivity is equal. John puts a lot of himself into his work-sweating and pounding, shouting at coworkers, and talking to the equipment as he works. Mark is very quiet and rarely seems to exert himself on the job. The fact that the production of these workers is identical and their actions on the job are so different illustrates the potential difficulties with ________.

Subjective measures are LEAST LIKELY used for appraisals based on ________.

Which of the following is an advantage of using bonuses rather than salary increases?

________ are subjective because they entail intangible factors, such as opportunities for career development.

A ________ assesses the performance of an employee along a continuum with clearly specified intervals.

Which of the following observations does NOT help employees form their psychological contracts?

Four employees were given an IQ test before beginning work at Smart Solutions. Don the manager was very impressed with the scores of Stacy and Jean. He always made sure to give them the difficult assignments. When there were openings for higher level positions, he suggested Stacy and Jean as being the most qualified. Don's choices may have been affected by ________.

For which of the following jobs would it be BEST to determine pay based on individual performance?

When ________ are used to appraise performance of employees, the focus is on the effects of their behaviors, or their actual output.

The similar-to-me effect occurs when a supervisor gives a subordinate who is similar to her a higher performance appraisal than the subordinate deserves.

According to procedural justice theory, procedures used to appraise performance must be perceived as fair in order for motivation to be high.

The primacy effect occurs when a subordinate who made a good first impression on his supervisor receives a better performance appraisal than he deserves.

The tenets of merit pay are LEAST related to ________.

Accurate performance appraisals provide employees with ________.

A downside of 360-degree appraisals is the fear that they might turn into popularity contests.

A manager wants to use only objective measures to appraise his employees. What measure should he NOT use?

________ can result in certain members of an organization not receiving the career opportunities they deserve because they are different from decision makers.

When employees are highly interdependent and individual performance levels cannot be assessed accurately, an individual-based pay-for-performance plan is not a viable option.