Chapter 6 Quiz OB

Which of the following motivates employees to continuously learn skills that will keep them employed?

Competency based rewards

________ is the process of assigning task to a job.

Job design

Empowerment includes all of the following characteristics except

Effort

Which of the following work environment factors would support self-leadership?

Employees have some degree of autonomy.

Employees at CyberTech perform repetitive jobs that have resulted in boredom as well as repetitive strain injury. Technology makes it difficult to combine existing jobs, but the company wants to make employees more multiskilled. Which of the following would best help CyberTech to improve this situation?

Introduce job rotation

Which of the following psychological empowerment dimensions is possessed by employees when they care about their work and believe that what they do is important?

Meaning

Which of the following does scientific management include

Systematically dividing a job into its smallest possible elements and assigning these divided tasks to employees who are best qualified to perform them

People in countries with _______ tend to have a high respect and priority for money.

high power distance

Which core job characteristic(s) affect(s) experienced responsibility for work outcomes?

autonomy. Jobs with high levels of autonomy provide freedom, independence, and discretion in scheduling the work and determining the procedures to be used to complete the work. In autonomous jobs, employees make their own decisions rather than relying on detailed instructions from supervisors or procedure manuals.

One issue with membership and seniority-based rewards is that they

do not directly motivate job performance

One disadvantage of job specialization is that

employees often do not see where their job fits in the overall production output.

Team rewards are better than individual rewards when employees work in highly interdependent jobs because

it is difficult to measure individual performance in these situations.

For rewards to be relevant they should be tied to

performance within the employee's control.

Catrina decided to do a more enjoyable task after completing a task that she disliked. This instance is an example of

self-reinforcement.

Which of the following are included under constructive thought strategies in self-leadership?

self-talk and mental imagery

One strategy to support psychological empowerment is to enhance ________, which refers to changing the workplace conditions or environment.

structural empowerment. When leaders say they are "empowering" the workforce, they actually mean that they are changing the work environment to support psychological empowerment. A wide variety of workplace conditions—often called structural empowerment practices—potentially enhance or support psychological empowerment.

________ is the degree to which a job requires completion of a whole or identifiable piece of work, such as assembling an entire broadband modem rather than just soldering in the circuitry.

task identity

Studies have shown that performance-based rewards

will motivate most employees but only under the right conditions.