Exam 5: Foundations of Employee Motivation

A salesperson gets one sales order for every six clients called,on average.If a sales order is a form of positive reinforcement,what type of reinforcement schedule exists here?

If you praise an employee every time after he or she has performed the job well,then extinction of the desired behaviours is less likely to occur after you stop giving any more praise.

According to equity theory,employees feel inequity only when other people receive higher salaries than they do.

Punishment decreases the frequency of future behaviour whereas negative reinforcement increases or maintains the frequency of future behaviour.

The challenge facing organizational leaders today is that:

Promotions typically follow which of these schedules?

A large manufacturer of Internet hardware wants to hire an executive who will help develop the firm's marketing division.This executive must be a 'team player' by working with other executives.The successful candidate will also delegate more responsibility to the marketing professionals,but is responsible for making tough decisions regarding allocation of limited budgets.Describe the level of need for achievement,affiliation,and socialized and personalized power that the ideal candidate would have for this position.Your answer should also briefly define these terms.

Self-concept,social norms,and past experiences help us:

In behaviour modification,antecedents refer to environmental cues,informing employees that certain behaviours will have particular consequences.

The definition of employee engagement is still in debate.

Which theory explicitly includes the following concepts: acquire,bond,learn?

In four-drive theory,the drive __________ is most closely associated with social identity theory.

Behaviour modification is an effective strategy for helping employees to improve their decision making and other conceptual activities.

Maslow's needs hierarchy theory failed to explain the dynamics of employee needs because they falsely assume that everyone fits into a single needs hierarchy.

Unlike needs hierarchy models,recent studies suggest that:

Which of the following typically provides feedback from more than one source?

Self-reinforcement is a component of:

The optimal level of goal difficulty occurs where the goal has more than a low level but less than a moderate level of goal difficulty.

People self regulate by engaging in self-reinforcement.

Underreward inequity occurs when your outcome/input ratio is lower than the outcome/input ratio of a comparison other.