Chapter 4 Quiz

_____ refers to a process of structuring organizations not around jobs but around projects that are constantly changing and have different team members.

Dejobbing

_____ gives employees the option of choosing daily starting and quitting times, provided they work a certain number of hours per day or week.

Flextime

Which of the following is a difference between industrial engineering and ergonomics?

Industrial engineering focuses on time and efficiency, whereas ergonomics focuses on the well-being of workers.

Which of the following statements is true of employee empowerment?

It involves workers in their jobs in ways that give them more control and autonomous decision-making capabilities.

_____ is a naturally occurring phenomenon whereby employees mold their tasks to better fit their individual strengths, passions, and motives.

Job crafting

_____ outline the knowledge, skills, abilities, and other attributes required of a person performing a particular job.

Job specifications

In the context of quantitative job analysis approaches, identify a difference between a task inventory analysis and the position analysis questionnaire (PAQ) system.

Unlike the PAQ, a task inventory questionnaire can be tailored for a specific organization.

Task significance is the degree to which:

a job has a substantial impact on the lives or work of other people in one's organization or elsewhere.

Autonomy refers to the degree to which:

a job provides a person the freedom and discretion to schedule his or her work and determine how to do it.

The objective of the critical incident method of job analysis is to:

identify both desirable and undesirable behaviors that resulted in either a very good outcome or a very bad outcome on a job.

Enhancing a job by adding more meaningful tasks and duties to make work more rewarding or satisfying is known as _____.

job enrichment

Finn, a single dad of three, is a part-time employee at a hospital. He, along with another part-time employee, fills in the position of one paramedic. Despite being permanent employees of the hospital, each of them works every alternate week. This helps Finn meet the needs of his children while pursuing his career. In the context of flexible work schedules, this scenario illustrates _____.

job sharing

In the context of the parts of a job description, a _____ is psychologically important because it provides status to an employee.

job title

A job description is defined as a statement:

of the tasks, duties, and responsibilities of the job to be performed.

In the context of the forms of employee teams, a(n) _____ is defined as a group formed specifically to design a new product or service, and the group normally disbands after the task is completed.

project team

Team synergy is heightened when:

team members engage in disagreements related to factual issues.

Ergonomics is defined as

the process of studying and designing easy-to-use equipment and systems so the physical well-being of employees isn't compromised and work gets done more efficiently.