Exam 5: Foundations of Employee Motivation

ABC Corp.introduced a training program that ensured everyone had the required knowledge and skills to perform the work.The company also brought in a performance-based reward system that accurately identified employees who performed better than others.According to expectancy theory,these practices improve employee motivation by:

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

According to expectancy theory,communicating the existence of a performance-based reward system motivates employees by increasing their outcome valences.

To learn about their progress towards goal accomplishment,employees usually prefer feedback from supervisors and other people.

The optimal level of goal:

Effective feedback is all of the following EXCEPT:

Compared to people with low need for affiliation,people with a high need for affiliation tend to:

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.

Goal setting influences employee behaviour and performance mainly by improving:

Feedback affects behaviour and job performance by improving which of the following?

ERG theory recognizes three learned needs: achievement,affiliation and power.

To determine the fairness of pay or other outcomes,people almost always rely on the equity principle.

Which of the following basic needs is explicitly stated in needs hierarchy theory,ERG theory and theory of learned needs?

The idea behind 360-degree feedback is that employees should receive feedback for 360 continuous days.

Expectancy theory mainly helps us to predict an individual's:

The positive organizations behaviour perspective focuses on teaching students the correct behaviours expected of them in modern work organizations.

Which of the following theories emphasizes the idea that some needs can be strengthened or weakened through training programs?

One way to increase an employee's E-to-P expectancy regarding a specific task is to increase the person's self-confidence through counselling and coaching.

In expectancy theory,the performance-to-outcome expectancy represents the anticipated satisfaction or dissatisfaction that an individual places on an outcome.

Jane holds a well-paying job with good job security.She also gets along well with colleagues,but has been frustrated in her attempts to receive more challenging assignments.Due to this frustration,Jane has recently stopped trying to get challenging work from her employer.Instead,she now spends more time enjoying social relations with colleagues.Which needs-based theory of motivation would best explain Jane's recent focus on social relations rather than challenging work?