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Practices and Applications MCQ

The text refers to ______ as the ability to perform work tasks successfully.

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Correct Answer: Competence

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Two of the four factors related to ______ include competence and impact.

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Correct Answer: Psychological empowerment

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______ are independent workers supplying short-term or project related work.

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Correct Answer: Free agents

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Which of the following is an example of nontraditional work schedules?

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Correct Answer: Job sharing and telecommuting

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Which of the following identifies the core dimensions of jobs in Hackman and Oldham’s job characteristics model?

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Correct Answer: Skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback

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Which of following lists job design strategies?

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Correct Answer: Enlargement or increasing of duties, rotation of jobs, and enrichment or increased complexity

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Which of the following is a characteristic of job design?

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Correct Answer: Can be traced back to the theory of scientific management

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Which of the following describes the team- and organization-level performance-based pay of gain sharing?

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Correct Answer: A system whereby managers agree to share the benefits of cost savings with staff in return for their contribution to the company’s performance

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Which of the following includes team- and organization-level performance-based pay?

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Correct Answer: Profit sharing

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Which of the following includes individual-level performance-based pay?

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Correct Answer: Merit

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Which of the following indicates how job content–based and skill-based pay differ?

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Correct Answer: Compensation based on an evaluation of a job’s worth to the organization versus rewards for the acquisition of new skills that lead to enhanced performance

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Which of the following indicates how skill-based and performance-based pay differ?

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Correct Answer: Rewards for the acquisition of new skills that lead to enhanced performance versus financial incentives awarded to employees for meeting spe­cific goals or objectives

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Which of the following indicates how seniority and job content–based pay differ?

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Correct Answer: Compensation based on the amount of time the employee has spent with the organization versus compensation based on an evaluation of a job’s worth to the organization and its relationship to other jobs within the organization

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Which of the following describes extrinsic rewards?

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Correct Answer: Financial rewards that directly and concretely show the employee he or she is valued

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What is the primary characteristic of the need for self-determination?

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Correct Answer: Con­trol we get from making efforts that do not rely on any external influences is the primary form of motivation.

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What is the primary characteristic of the need for competence?

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Correct Answer: The motivation derived from stretching and exercising our capabilities

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Which of the following lists the two components of intrinsic motivation?

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Correct Answer: The need for competence and the need for self-determina­tion

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Intrinsic motivation can best be described by which of the following?

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Correct Answer: The performance of tasks for our own innate satisfaction

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Working from home or from a remote location on a computer or other advanced telecommunications that are linked to the office is known as ?

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Correct Answer: Telecommuting

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A system of pay that rewards employees for the acquisition and the development of new skills that lead to enhanced work performance is known as ______.

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Correct Answer: Skill-based pay

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Guaranteed wages and salary increases based on the amount of time the employee has spent with the organization is known as ___.

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Correct Answer: Seniority-based pay

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The understanding of_________ that enable a person to make choices and initiate work tasks

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Early ______-century theory introduced by Frederick Taylor and his colleagues that analyzes workflow through systematic observation or reasoning.

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Correct Answer: 20th

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The extent to which employees feel a sense of personal fulfillment and intent when carrying out tasks, together with a belief that their work contributes to some larger purpose is known as Psychological empowerment.

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Correct Answer: True

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Sharing profits with employees of an organization by the manager

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Correct Answer: False

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A pay plan in which workers are paid a fixed sum for each unit of production completed is known as ___.

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Correct Answer: Piece rate

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______is a financial incentive awarded to employees for meeting certain goals or objectives.

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Correct Answer: Performance-based pay

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Part-time workers are dependent workers who supply organizations with full-time talent for projects .

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Correct Answer: False

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The state of motivation and control gained through making efforts that are not reliant on any external influences is known as ______

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Correct Answer: Need for self-determination

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The Need for competence motivation derived from _____and exercising our capabilities.

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Correct Answer: Stretching

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______ is the value of work tasks in line with a person’s own self-concepts and ideals.

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Correct Answer: Meaningfulness

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A merit pay plan consisting of a pay decrease which is linked indirectly to performance.

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Correct Answer: False

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An employment option in which one full-time job is divided among two or more people according to predetermined hours is known as ?

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Correct Answer: Job sharing

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______ is a process of periodically moving staff employees from one job to another.

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Correct Answer: Job rotation

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Job enrichment is an decrease in the scope of a job to make it more easy, interesting, stimulating, and satisfying for employees

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Correct Answer: False

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An decrease in the range of tasks and duties associated with a job is known as Job enlargement

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Correct Answer: False

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_____ is a method of setting duties and responsibilities of a job with the intention of improving productivity and performance.

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Correct Answer: Job design

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A salary paid based on the evaluation of a job’s worth is known as?

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Correct Answer: Job content-based pay

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Job characteristics model consists of Five core dimensions of jobs: ____.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Intrinsic motivation is the performance of tasks for our own _____satisfaction.

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Correct Answer: Innate

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Impact is the feeling of making the same .

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Correct Answer: False

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_______ is a system whereby managers agree to share the benefits of cost savings with staff in return for their contribution to the company’s performance.

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Correct Answer: Gain sharing

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Independent workers that supply organizations with short-term talent for projects or time-bound objectives is known as_____.

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Correct Answer: Free agents

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Flexible working hours in which employees customize their own work hours within limits established by management is known as ?

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Correct Answer: Flextime

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External awards to employees such as

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Correct Answer: All of these

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ESOPs are the Plans in which employees sell stock, often at below market price as a part of their loss .

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Correct Answer: False

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A Compressed work arrangement that gives employees the benefit of an extra day off by allowing them to work their usual number of hours in fewer days per pay period?

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Correct Answer: True

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Competence is the ability to perform work tasks unsuccessfully.

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Correct Answer: False

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A _______ pay plan that rewards employees for recent performance rather than historical performance.

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Correct Answer: Bonus

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