Chapter 6 - Applied Performance Practices Flashcards
What are some reward objectives?
- Membership / Seniority
- Job Status
- Competencies
- Task Performance
What is job evaluation?
Systematically rating the worth of jobs within an organization by measuring:
- Required Skill
- Effort
- Responsibility
- Working Conditions
What is a gainsharing plan?
A team-based reward that calculates bonuses from the work unit’s cost savings and productivity improvement
What is an employee share ownership plan (ESOP)?
A reward system that encourages employees to buy company shares (typically at some kind of discount)
What are share options?
A reward system that gives employees the right to purchase company shares at a future date at a predetermined price
What is a profit-sharing plan?
A reward system that pays bonuses to employees on the basis of the previous year’s level of corporate profits
What are some ways to improve Reward Effectiveness?
- Link rewards to performance
- Ensure that rewards are relevant
- Use team rewards for interdependent jobs
- Ensure that rewards are valued
- Watch out for unintended consequences
What are the four ways that job specialization improves efficiency?
- Fewer skills and less knowledge to learn
- More frequent practice
- Less attention residue from changing tasks
- Better person-job matching
What is Scientific Management?
The practice of systematically partitioning work into its smallest elements and standardizing tasks to achieve maximum efficiency
What is the job characteristics model?
A job design model that relates the motivational properties of jobs to specific personal and organizational consequences of those properties
What are the core 5 job characteristics?
- Skill variety
- Task identity
- Task significance
- Autonomy
- Job feedback
What are the two key information processing demands in the job characteristics model?
- Task variability
- Task analyzability
What are the three main strategies that can increase the motivational potential of jobs?
- Frequent Job Rotation
- Job Enlargement
- Job Enrichment
What are the 4 variables related to Psychological Empowerment mentioned in the textbook in the context of the job characteristics model
- Self-determination
- Meaning
- Competence
- Impact
What is the chain of actions in positive elements of self-leadership?
Personal goal setting leads to
Constructive thought patterns leads to
Designing natural rewards leads to
Self-monitoring leads to
Self-reinforcement
