Question 1

Job evaluation mainly supports the competency approach to rewards.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 2

Which reward system tends to discourage poor performers from voluntarily leaving the organization?

Accepted Answer

A)  Membership and seniority-based pay
B)  Skill-based pay
C)  Piece-rate rewards
D)  Competency-based pay
E)  All of the answers are correct. A

Question 3

In self-leadership,constructive thought patterns include:

Accepted Answer

A)  self-talk and mental imagery
B)  gainsharing
C)  personal goal setting and self-monitoring
D)  job rotation and job enrichment
E)  All of the answers are correct. A

Question 4

According to your text,the likelihood of a person engaging in self-leadership depends on:

Accepted Answer

A)  educational level
B)  work environment
C)  mental imagery
D)  positive self-talk
E)  financial incentives

Question 5

Which of these factors,according to Herzberg,is a hygiene factor?

Accepted Answer

A)  Autonomy
B)  Job security
C)  Responsibility
D)  Personal growth
E)  All of the answers are correct.

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Which of these contemporary organizational behaviour practices was popularized by Frederick Taylor in his work on scientific management?

Accepted Answer

A)  Goal setting
B)  Job enrichment
C)  Membership and seniority-based rewards
D)  All of the answers are correct.
E)  None of the answers apply.

Question 8

According to the job characteristics model,experienced meaningfulness increases with the level of job feedback.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Job evaluations are used in which type of reward system?

Accepted Answer

A)  Competency-based rewards
B)  Job status-based rewards
C)  Individual performance rewards
D)  Seniority-based rewards
E)  None of the answers apply.

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Job evaluation
B)  Commissions
C)  Share option plans
D)  Employee share ownership plans
E)  Stock option plans and employee stock ownership plans

Question 11

Forming natural work units tends to:

Accepted Answer

A)  reduce autonomy and increase task significance.
B)  reduce skill variety and increase job feedback.
C)  reduce task significance and increase task identity.
D)  reduce job feedback and increase skill variety.
E)  None of the answers apply.

Question 12

Self-leadership provides a different way of thinking about motivating employees.Briefly explain how self-leadership differs from other applied motivation practices.Then,fully describe any three elements of the self-leadership model.

Accepted Answer

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Question 13

Forming natural work units tends to increase task identity and task significance.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Increasing the core job characteristics will not increase employee motivation for those who lack the required skills.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Which of the following is NOT a component of empowerment?

Accepted Answer

A)  Impact
B)  Meaning
C)  Mental imagery
D)  Self-determination
E)  Competence

Question 16

Empowerment is known to:

Accepted Answer

A)  increase employee motivation and performance.
B)  reduce conflict between employees and their supervisors.
C)  increase employee trust in management.
D)  increase employee responsiveness to problems and opportunities.
E)  All of the answers are correct.

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Gainsharing rewards
B)  Job status-based rewards
C)  Team-based rewards
D)  Competency-based rewards
E)  Membership/seniority rewards

Question 18

A rubber recycling plant employed 150 unskilled and relatively low-paid production employees.Although employees were unhappy about their pay levels as well as noise and heat in the plant,most had high seniority because there were many other employment opportunities in the community.To motivate the workforce,the new plant manager decided to enrich the production jobs by giving them a wider variety of tasks to perform and giving them more autonomy regarding when they performed those tasks.However,rather than increase job performance,the changes resulted in more complaints from employees,higher absenteeism due to stress and a slight increase in turnover.Based on your knowledge of job design,explain why these results may have occurred.

Accepted Answer

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Question 19

Which of the following is not one of the emotions that is generated by money,according to one large-scale study?

Accepted Answer

A)  Anxiety
B)  Depression
C)  Happiness
D)  Anger
E)  Helplessness

Question 20

Job status-based rewards:

Accepted Answer

A)  encourage employees to exaggerate job duties and hoard resources.
B)  motivate employees to compete for positions further up the organization.
C)  tend to encourage bureaucratic hierarchy.
D)  All of the answers are correct.
E)  None of the answers apply.

Exam 6: Applied Performance Practices

Job evaluation mainly supports the competency approach to rewards.

Which reward system tends to discourage poor performers from voluntarily leaving the organization?

In self-leadership,constructive thought patterns include:

According to your text,the likelihood of a person engaging in self-leadership depends on:

Which of these factors,according to Herzberg,is a hygiene factor?

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

Which of these contemporary organizational behaviour practices was popularized by Frederick Taylor in his work on scientific management?

According to the job characteristics model,experienced meaningfulness increases with the level of job feedback.

Job evaluations are used in which type of reward system?

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

Forming natural work units tends to:

Self-leadership provides a different way of thinking about motivating employees.Briefly explain how self-leadership differs from other applied motivation practices.Then,fully describe any three elements of the self-leadership model.

Forming natural work units tends to increase task identity and task significance.

Increasing the core job characteristics will not increase employee motivation for those who lack the required skills.

Which of the following is NOT a component of empowerment?

Empowerment is known to:

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

Which of the following is not one of the emotions that is generated by money,according to one large-scale study?

Job status-based rewards: