Exam 6: Applied Performance Practices

Companies should use individual-level performance-based pay when jobs are highly interdependent.

Job status-based rewards discourage employees from hoarding resources.

All employees feel more motivated to perform their jobs when the core job characteristics are increased.

The more employees see a direct connection between their daily actions and the reward,the more they are motivated to improve performance.

Steelweld,a car parts manufacturer,pays employees a higher hourly rate as they learn to operate more parts of the work process.Employees earn $10 per hour when they are hired and they can earn up to $20 per hour if they master all 12 work units in the production process.Steelweld is applying which of these reward systems?

Which of the following tends to create an 'ownership culture' and align employee behaviours more closely to organizational objectives?

Profit-sharing plans give employees the right to purchase shares of the company and eventually get rewarded through dividends from those shares.

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

Which of the following statements about mental imagery is FALSE?

Job enlargement primarily changes which of the following?

Job specialization increases training costs and makes it more difficult for companies to match employee aptitudes to jobs for which they are best suited.

The level of work quality tends to increase with the level of job specialization.

Which of the following is NOT explicitly identified as a component of self-leadership?

People with a high power distance give money a low priority in their lives.

Self-leadership involves finding ways to increase job specialization.

Some critics argue that financial rewards discourage creativity and distract employees from the meaningfulness of the work itself.

Which of the following is known to increase employee responsiveness to problems and opportunities as well as improve customer service?

Companies sometimes introduce job rotation for reasons other than reducing job boredom.

A mid-sized city introduced a reward system whereby employees would find ways to reduce costs and increase work efficiency.Every employee would receive a portion of the surplus budget resulting from these cost savings.This city is using:

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.