MGT 3620 Bigelow EXAM 2

According to your text, which of the following is a positive outcome of pay secrecy?

It can be positive in reducing some employee conflicts.

The dimensions of psychological empowerment include all of these except

needs

Joe has the same qualifications (education and experience) as Chelsea, and they work for the same company. Joe finds out that Chelsea is earning a higher salary than him, even though they both do the same job. Based on equity theory, what is Joe most likely to experience?

negative inequity (underreward)

Total Tone Fitness has structured its employee teams so that members interact with a subset of other members to complete the team's work. Total Tone uses ________ interdependence.

reciprocal

The phenomenon of a team delivering "less than the sum of its parts" can be explained by the term

process loss

________ is a perspective that acknowledges that the responsibility of a business encompasses the economic, legal, ethical, and citizenship expectations of society.

Corporate social responsibility

________ reflects whether members possess adequate information about their own task responsibilities.

Decision informity

Examples of physiological needs are:

Food, shelter, and safety

________ reflects the degree to which the leader effectively weighs the recommendations of the members.

Hierarchical sensitivity

________ is defined as the degree to which people see themselves as moral.

Moral identity

Which of the following statements concerning nationality and trust is not correct?

People in Sweden feel most people cannot be trusted.

Gordon works as a senior software engineer. His boss trusts Gordon to come up with his own approaches to accomplish work tasks, delegates many decisions and doesn't micromanage. Which of the following aspects of psychological empowerment is the boss trying to instill in Gordon?

Self-determination

Which of the following motivating forces have the strongest performance effect?

Self-efficacy and competence

Moral development at the conventional stage is characterized by

an emphasis on laws, rules, and orders that govern society

The more communication flows through fewer members of the team, the higher the degree of

centralization

When trust is rooted in a rational assessment of the authority's trustworthiness, it is called ________ trust.

cognition-based

If you are angry or depressed when you find out your coworker in your same job has a higher salary, you may

compare yourself to someone else, put less effort into your work, and start thinking your experience is not as good as the coworker.

Justice reflects the perceived fairness of an authority's

decision making

When employees evaluate outcomes such as pay, rewards, and promotions to determine whether they are allocated using proper norms, they are applying the ________ type of justice.

distributive

A person's belief that the effort they put into completing a task will lead to performing at a desired level is called

expectancy

In equity theory, inputs usually refer to

experience

Marilyn was just hired to work at a college administration office. She is not exactly sure what she is supposed to be doing or who to ask when she has a question. She also would like to know how many breaks she can take, and if she can leave for lunch. Marilyn is in the ________ stage of team development.

forming

Trust in authorities like the management in a firm depends on which two factors?

justice and ethics

Which of the following is not a factor in the four-component model of ethical decision making?

moral sensitivity

The type of task interdependence with the lowest degree of required coordination among team members is ________ interdependence.

pooled

Disagreements among team members with regard to interpersonal interactions or incompatibilities in personal values or preferences is referred to as

relationship conflict

Which of the following is meant to foster intrinsic motivation?

skill development

Halle is on a team that has just been formed. There are people of a wide variety of ages and ethnicities, and there is an even blend of men and women. Halle's team demonstrates

surface-level diversity

Affect-based trust is driven by the

trustor's feelings for the trustee.

While ________ teams focus on the accomplishment of core operational-level production and service tasks, ________ teams focus on integrating the activities of subunits across business functions.

work; management