BMGT341 Midterm

Overreward Inequity

noticing her reduce performance at work, Sabrina and rolled herself for training sessions offered by the company and saw her productivity improve. This helps restore her balance of comparison ratios. Prior to enrolling in the training session, Sabrina was most likely experiencing ...

Emotion-focused cognitive coping

Alicia and Karolina work at the flash frozen vegetable factory. The company is short staffed, and the employees are finding it difficult to meet the daily production requirements. Both alicia and Karolina are facing pressures in their respective departments. Alicia decides to work longer hours to meet the deadline, where as Karolina tries to distance herself from her problems at work by thinking about the positive things in her life. Which of the coping strategies is Karolina using?

remind the team of how they worked hard to successfully overcome challenges in the past.

Alvin is the leader of a team of counselors at a camp for recovering addicts. He and his team have been asked to implement a new program, which on the surface looks much more difficult than what they have been doing. Before the program begins, Alvin feels he needs to give his team a speech to help motivate them for the upcoming challenge. What is the first thing Alvin should do in his speech?

role conflict

Angela is working as the head of sales at BlueMountain cola. Her work requires her to travel extensively and meet customers in various countries. However, Angela's role also requires her to mentor several sales representatives who work under her and keep track of their process. Because Angela stays away from her office most of the time, she finds it difficult to manage both types of work responsibilities. Angela faces which of the following challenges?

a deadline for when the books should be printed

Bill lays out a goal for Larry, the head of his printing department. Bill wants Larry to print exactly 500,000 books, which will be tracked by the counter on the book binding machine. Bills knows Larry can do this because they had printed that many books before. What does Bill need to add to make this a smart goal?

instrumental support

Charlene is a product development manager for unique Automotive accessories. When she was first hired she proved herself to be one of the most productive new employees. Lately, Charlene's supervisor Ivan, has noticed that her productivity is slipping from his previous High Point. whenever I've been stays late at the office, he sees that Charlene is always at her desk, eating takeout, and she is always the first to arrive in the morning. He also observed that her email replies are often time stamped on the weekend. I've been decides to hire Charlene and assistant to ease our workload and improve her work life balance. Ivans approach to alleviating Charlene stressors is an example of ____

problem or emotion

Coping strategies can be viewed as either___ focused.

emotional cues

Evan has been asked to lead a team of educators. He is afraid his employees will not take him seriously because he is a nice guy, and he is nervous that his supervisors will see him as weak and ineffective. He is also excited by some great ideas he has for how to improve educational delivery methods that he knows will work. Evans efficiency is moderately turn by his fears and anxiety, and as well as his pride and is doozy as him, which are all examples of ..

the cognitive process that employees go through to make choices among different voluntary responses

Expectancy theory focuses on describing

Self-determination

Incusafe Is a venture-capital firm that helped finance small businesses. New hired at the firm are giving a project worth $100,000 to work on with minimum interference from the senior associates the project has a large go for innovation and creation. What is the management attempting to use as a motivator for the new hires?

to realize the importance of spending time with her boyfriend and understand that a variable work schedule will negatively impact her personal life.

Judy has just started a new job as a checker at Farmer's Grocery. it is her first job after graduating high school and she hopes to save enough money in the first year to be able to move in with her boyfriend. in her first week, she be friends to other checkers, Silvio and Natasha, and she finds the majority of customers to be polite and sociable. at the end of her first week on the job, she checks the upcoming weeks work schedule only to discover that she is scheduled to have Tuesday and Friday off instead of Wednesday and Thursday as she requested. She is disappointed because her boyfriend has Wednesdays and Thursdays off from his job as a leader, and there are conflicting schedules means she will not be able to see him much. The next week, she finds that she has Tuesdays and Saturday off, despite once again requesting Wednesday and Thursday off. The week after that, she finds herself feeling anxious about going into the break room because she is reluctant to find out If her days off are again different from what she requested. According to what you know about trans action or theory of stress, what will be the next step Judy takes?

procedural

Manuela and Noor were incensed when their company decided to get rid of it's on site cock child care service and expand its gym and sports facility instead. They find outrageous that the company did not factor it's employees once in years into its decision, especially given the fact that 47% of its employees have children still living at home. Manuela and Noor feel that___ justice was not served.

supportive practices

Mia smiled when she heard this and was grateful that her boss was so understanding. In allowing Mia to have altered work hours. Mohammed was utilizing

trust propensity

Raheem recently hired a new assistant, Kathy. At his office, he often receives confidential letters in documents regarding work, as well as some personal mail, including financial statements. As Raheem often spends much of his day in meetings, he asked Kathy to collect his mail and leave it on the desk to sort through later. When Kathy gives him the mail, Raheem trust that she has not stolen or opened any of it. Raheem has a high degree of ...

achievable

The "A" in the S.M.A.R.T. goals acronym stands for

persistence

Wallace just got a new batch of articles to edit. He is enthused about starting something new. He decides to put all other distractions aside and focus on the status. He gets a great deal done, but after three hours, he is ready for something else. Deciding to quit after a few hours demonstrates the affect of Wallace motivations on his___of effort.

cognition based

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

Bill, just named sales manager, asks Fred what his job was like when he was the sales manager.

Which of the following scenarios demonstrates how workers determine efficacy levels through vicarious experiences?

role overload

Which of these is a work hindrance stressor?

hindrance stressors

___ are stressful demands that are perceived as hindering process towards personal accomplishments or goal attainment.

challenge stressors

___ are stressful demands that are perceived as opportunities for learning, a growth, and achievement.

moral intent

_____ is the third step in the four-component model of ethical decision making and reflects an authority's degree of commitment to the moral course of action.

Irvin, who said wages are determined by employee job performance

employees at Carpet Lot were given a survey about the workplace. One of the questions asked them about their wages. Which of the following respondents gave a response that shows a believe in a high level of instrumentality at Carpet Lot

high degree of disposition based trust

just so we can tell their new jobs in the marketing and advertising division of the cell phone company Alexa, Nigel, and Lorraine were given the task of creating an advertisement campaign for the companies new phone. Alexa and Nigel are having a lot of trouble coming up with anything creative, so when Lorraine volunteers to take over, they readily agree. Although they know little about Lorraine skills in this area, they believe she will do a good job. Which of the following is true with regard to Alexa and Nigel?

role conflict

just two days before the two regional supervisor quit, the bank hired steven as a supervisor trainee. With the bank suddenly shorthanded, steven was asked to take up all the responsibilities of the regional supervisor. He has been given very few instructions or guidelines about how things are supposed to be done. Instead, the bank expects him to learn on the job. Steven is encountering stress resulting from ...