Exam 6: Motivation and Performance

The "best" job design is always the one that meets organizational requirements for high performance, offers a good fit with individual skills and needs, and provides opportunities for job satisfaction.

Skill-based pay plans pay people for the particular job assignment they hold rather than the mix and depth of skills they possess.

In the context of performance appraisal dimensions and standards, the goal of meeting product specification standards is an example of an __________.

Define intrinsic rewards and extrinsic rewards. Give an example of an intrinsic reward and an extrinsic reward.

Changes in a job that are designed to increase job breadth are sometimes called __________.

Which of the following statements about job rotation is correct? Job rotation:

Changes in a job that are designed to increase job depth are sometimes called vertical loading.

____________ reward is the feeling of achievement after completing a particularly challenging task in a job designed with a good person-job fit.

According to the job characteristics model, task significance is the degree to which the job requires completion of a "whole" and identifiable piece of work, one that involves doing a job from beginning to end with a visible outcome.

Comparative methods of performance appraisal identify one employee's standing relative to others.

__________ give the right to purchase shares at a fixed price in the future.

Intrinsic rewards are positively valued work outcomes that are given to an individual or group by some other person or source in the work setting.

The research of Lawler generally concludes that __________.

The degree to which the job gives the employee substantial freedom, independence, and discretion in scheduling the work and determining the procedures used in carrying it out is referred to as:

All of the following statements about profit-sharing are true EXCEPT:

Which statement regarding comparative methods of performance appraisal is incorrect?

Job enlargement occurs when task variety is increased by combining into one job, two or more tasks that were previously assigned to separate workers.

A forced distribution method of performance appraisal can be problematic if most of the employees are truly superior performers or if most of them perform at about the same level.

The job characteristics model identifies five core job characteristics that are especially important to job design. The five core job characteristics are __________.

Content theories are useful in the integrated model of motivation as guides to understanding individual beliefs and career aspirations.