To increase goal performance, employees should participate in the goal- setting process:
Which of the following is a way to increase employee motivation by improving the P-to-O expectancies?
Which of these theories states that we are motivated by several needs, but the strongest source is the lowest unsatisfied need?
Which of the following is the highest level need in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?
In four-drive theory, the drive ______ is most closely associated with the need for relative status and recognition.
Employees who receive a fixed amount of pay each week and who feel under-rewarded are most likely to:
When people experience procedural injustice, they tend to:
A learned need in which people want to control the environment, including people and material resources, to benefit either themselves or others is referred to as the need for:
According to the four-drive theory, which of the following drives is the foundation of competition and the basis of our need for esteem?
According to expectancy theory, giving more valued rewards to employees with higher job performance mainly increases motivation by:
The desire to seek approval from others, conform to their wishes and expectations, and avoid conflict and confrontations is referred to as the need for:
One of the main implications of four-drive theory is that:
When applied to non-management employees, which of the following has a weak connection between the reward and individual effort?
Team rewards are better than individual rewards when employees work in highly interdependent jobs because:
Which of the following does scientific management include?
According to the survey reported in the text, what percentage of Americans say their pay is “variable, such that a portion is dependent upon your individual performance/productivity” targets?
Which of these job design actions is a form of job enlargement?
is the degree to which the job affects the organization and/or larger society.
A mid-sized city introduced a reward system whereby employees would find ways to reduce costs and increase work efficiency. Every employee would receive a portion of the surplus budget resulting from these cost savings. Which of the following reward systems is this city using?
When are employees said to be empowered?
Which of the following refers to the result of the division of labor in which work is subdivided into separate jobs assigned to different people?
Gainsharing plans tend to:
Which of these statements about self-leadership is true?
A unique feature of Herzberg’s motivator-hygiene theory is that it:
According to the self-leadership model, which of the following is true about positive self-talk?