Exam 12: Motivation Across Cultures

Managers everywhere avoid using rewards to motivate their personnel.

The hierarchy-of-needs theory is based primarily on work by David McClelland, a well-known humanistic psychologist.

In work motivation, those factors controlled by the organization, such as conditions, hours, earning, security, benefits, and promotions are referred to as job context factors.

In the two-factor motivation theory, the job content factors which include achievement, recognition, responsibility, advancement, and the work itself are referred to as:

Achievement motivation theory is associated with the work of Harvard psychologist:

Maslow postulated that everyone has five basic needs, which constitute a need hierarchy.In ascending order, beginning with the most basic, they are:

What are sociotechnical job designs?

Work-motivation in terms of what arouses, energizes, or initiates employee behavior are explained by:

One reason that Americans and Japanese work such long hours is due to:

In work motivation, factors controlled by the organization, such as conditions, hours, earnings, security, benefits, and promotions are referred to as:

According to the text, the most important motivational variable in Zambia is:

The theory that focuses on how individuals go about setting goals and responding to them and the overall impact of this process on motivation is:

The tables from Hofstede's research show that _____ needs rank highest for professionals and managers.

To motivate employees, especially in foreign countries with high individualism companies tend to offer:

Geert Hofstede and others have suggested that need-satisfaction profiles are a very useful way of addressing motivation.