Chapter 6: Applied Performance Practices Flashcards
A reward system that encourages employees to buy company shares.
Employee share ownership plan (ESOP)
A team-based reward that calculates bonuses from the work units cost savings and productivity improvement.
Gain sharing plan.
A job design model that relates the motivational properties of jobs to specific personal and organizational consequences of those properties.
Job characteristics model.
The practice of increasing the number and variety of related tasks assigned to a job.
Job enlargement
The practice of giving employees more responsibility for scheduling, coordinating, and planning their own work.
Job enrichment.
Systematically rating the worth of jobs within an organization by measuring the required skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions.
Job evaluation.
The results of a division of labor, in which work is subdivided into separate jobs assigned to different people.
Job specialization.
A reward system that pays bonuses to employees on the basis of the previous years level of corporate profits.
Profit sharing plan.
A perceptual and emotional state in which people experience more self-determination, meaning, competence, and impact regarding their role in the organization.
Psychological empowerment.
The practice of systematically partitioning work into its smallest elements and standardizing tasks to achieve maximum efficiency.
Scientific management.
A reward system that gives employees the right to purchase company shares at a future date at a predetermined price.
Share options.
The extent to which employees must use different skills and talents to perform tasks within their jobs.
Skill variety.
The degree to which job duties allow the application of established procedures and rules to guide decisions and behavior (high analyzability); creativity and judgment are necessary to perform jobs with low task analyzability.
Task analyzability.
The degree to which a job requires completion of a whole or an identifiable piece of work.
Task identity.
That agree to which a job has a substantial impact on the organization and/ or larger society.
Task significance.
