Exam 6: Applied Performance Practices

People are empowered when they feel self-determination,meaning,competence,and impact regarding their role in the organization.

Job enlargement increases an employee's growth needs.

Jobs with high level of task significance provide freedom,independence,and discretion in scheduling the work and determining the procedures to be used to complete the work.

Job specialization increases work efficiency,but it tends to reduce employee motivation.

People with a high level of conscientiousness have difficulty applying self-leadership strategies.

Which of the following is an advantage of job specialization?

A gainsharing plan:

Your supervisor has been reading about self-leadership and is intrigued by the concept.Discuss how she can encourage self-leadership and which conditions would make self-leadership more likely to occur.

Job enrichment tends to increase the quality of products or services.

One advantage of competency-based rewards is that measuring employee competencies is mostly done through objective measurement methods.

Which of the following practices explicitly includes self-reinforcement?

ABC Ltd.has a large secretarial pool on the third floor of company headquarters where professional and lower-level managers have their reports and other documents word-processed.The tasks are received by the secretarial pool coordinator and assigned randomly (on an availability basis)to secretaries in the pool.The secretaries often do not know the managers or professionals for whom the word-processing assignment is being completed.They rarely find out about the quality of their work because revisions are often sent to other secretaries in the pool due to the rotating work assignment system.Some assignments involve simple word-processing while others require complex formatting using more sophisticated word-processing software.Some secretaries don't mind working in the pool,but most are there because it represents the entry-level secretarial position.They resent the lack of control over work assignments and look forward to being transferred to other secretarial jobs in the firm where there is more freedom to schedule their own work activities.Turnover in the pool is much higher than for other support staff at ABC Ltd.What job design strategy would you recommend to improve employee effectiveness in ABC's secretarial pool?

Which of the following explicitly considers the work unit's cost savings and productivity improvement?

___________ are often "golden handcuffs" that potentially increase continuance commitment.

Which of the following systematically evaluates the worth of each job within the organization?

Self-leadership has become increasingly important in contemporary organizations.Identify and describe any three components of self-leadership.Then explain how each of those three self-leadership components potentially improves employee motivation and/or performance.

Gainsharing plans apply to production jobs,not to services such as medical operations.

Employees with a high degree of autonomy are more likely to engage in self-leadership.

Gainsharing plans focus on cost reductions and increased labour efficiency.

A unique feature of Herzberg's motivator-hygiene theory is that it: