Exam 8: Pay Careers and Changing Employment Relationships

________ indicates that outcomes (pay) should be distributed in proportion to inputs (performance).

Graphic rating scales are popular in organizations because they are relatively easy to construct and use.

The boundaryless career is not tied to a single organization; rather it involves a variety of work experiences in different organizations.

Career plateaus may be the result of the hierarchical nature of most organizations where there are fewer and fewer positions to be promoted into as employees advance.

During a performance appraisal, a manager tells a grocery store cashier that she is spending too much of her time greeting customers and providing friendly service and not enough time making sure that she is ringing up the grocery bills correctly. Which of the following BEST describes this cashier's limitation?

Informal performance appraisals are NOT beneficial since they are not formal and employees learn little about their behaviors.

Chris Ryan developed a strong background in understanding mechanical issues while serving in the U.S. Navy and as a repair technician after she finished her enlistment. Chris later moved on to a position selling technical equipment in which she had to discuss highly technical issues with customers. She recently joined Seismic Computational, Inc., as a marketing specialist in its technical instrumentation division. There she directs the advertising and promotion of the company's highly complex technical equipment to a very knowledgeable group of consumers. This type of career is known as a(n) ________.

A 360-degree appraisal compiles evaluations from 360 discrete appraisers.

Pay plans based solely on individual performance are called gain-sharing plans.

Employees operating under full commission plans are likely to adopt a highly individualized approach to their jobs and not work together as a team.

An employment situation with an initial probationary period during which either party can terminate the relationship is a transactional contract.

In the workplace, an exchange relationship involves the outcomes an organization has promised to provide and the contributions an employee is obligated to make.

Most of the career opportunities that organizations use to motivate their members are built on the idea that as people gain experience, they should be given the opportunity to assume more responsible positions in an organization. This describes the career category known as ________.

A(n) ________ is an employee's perception of his or her exchange relationship with an organization.

What is the definition of a career? Why are individuals concerned about their careers? Why are organizations concerned with the careers of their members?

When a performance appraisal is formal, the performance dimensions and the way employees are evaluated on them are determined in advance.

According to theories of operant conditioning and motivation, what is the optimal relationship between pay and performance?

Which of the following written documents are NOT influential in helping individuals form their psychological contracts?

Which of the following steps would a company be LEAST LIKELY to do to help dual-career couples, single parents, and workers caring for elderly parents?

All of the following are objective measures of performance EXCEPT ________.