Exam 12: Motivating Job Performance

By definition, open-book management involves stock ownership by every employee, from top to bottom.

The basic expectancy model suggests that motivational strength increases if the potential reward is perceived by the employee to be personally meaningful.

Motivation at Work Brenda is a new line-manager at a motorcycle manufacturing plant. She is concerned about motivation in her department, and is considering motivation through job design. -Refer to Motivation at Work. If Brenda combines two or more specialized tasks to increase motivation, what would you call the technique?

A study of 164 New Zealand companies with at least 100 employees found higher employee turnover among firms using participative management practices.

"Feeling that the work is meaningful" is a critical psychological state in the job enrichment model.

Giving employees more responsibility and decision-making authority involves job rotation.

The final step of the S.T.E.P. approach to open-book management involves paying employees a fair share of profits through bonuses, incentives, and stock ownership.

Perceived inequity can be experienced by employees who are either underpaid or overpaid.

Team-based incentive pay in the U.S. has been ________________ because of our individualistic culture.

According the Society for Human Resource Management, the top five family-friendly benefits are all of the following except __________.

Managers can discover an individual's perceived performance-reward probabilities through careful listening.

Which of these play a central role in the expectancy theory of motivation?

Job enlargement and job enrichment both involve combining simple tasks to increase employee motivation.

Frederick Herzberg believed that money is a weak motivational tool.

Craig Mahem constantly complains about the low pay, terrible working conditions, and unprofessional supervision at the local camera shop where he works to support his three children. Which of Herzberg's two factors of motivation are impacting Craig?

Motivation theories are generalizations about the ____ of purposeful behavior.

The ultimate objective of wellness programs is to improve organizational productivity.

Job enrichment programs tend to work well with all employees.

According to the expectancy theory of motivation, employees tend to work harder when they believe they have a good chance of getting _____________.

A self-actualizing manager recognizes and shares negative information and feelings.