Chapter 6 Flashcards
Money
Money more valued by men
money important increases with power distance
Strong money ethic when you see money as not evil, achievement, power symbol, budget careful
status based rewards
Includes job evaluation and status perks
Advantages:
Job evaluation tries to maintain fairness
Motivates competition for promotions
Disadvantages:
Encourages bureaucratic hierarchy
Reinforces status vs egalitarian culture
Employees exaggerate duties, hoard resources
Competency based rewards
Broad competency-based pay bands:
employees paid more within pay band (scale) as they demonstrate more competencies
Skill-based pay:
employees paid more as they learn more skill modules
Advantages:
Multi-skilled work force, better quality, creativity, adaptability
Disadvantages:
Potentially complex plans, subjective, expensive
improving reward effectiveness
Link rewards to performance
Ensure rewards are relevant
ensure rewards are valued
Job Design
Assigning tasks to a job, including the interdependency of those tasks with other jobs
Job Specialization
Dividing work into separate jobs, each with a subset of tasks required to complete the product or service
Computing a motivating potential score
MPS = (Variety + Identify + Significance) DIVIDED BY 3 X autonomy X feedback
Job Rotation
Benefits:
Minimizes repetisse strain injury
Multiskills the workforce
Potentially reduces job boredom
Job enlargement
Adding tasks to an exiting job
Job Enrichment
Giving employees more responsibility for scheduling, coordination and planning work
Dimensions of empowerment
Self determination
Meaning
Competence
Impact
5 elements of self leadership
Personal goal setting
Constructive though patterns
Designing natural rewards
Self motivating
Self reinforcement
Predictors of self leadership
Individual factors:
Higher levels of conscientiousness
Positive self evaluation
Organizational factors:
Job autonomy
Participative and trustworthy leadership
Measure oriented culture
