employee motivation

Question 1

internal driving force that drives an action

Answer 1

motivation

Question 2

discusses two types of motivation: extrinsic and intrinsic

Answer 2

self-determination theory

Question 3

measures individual’s orientation for intrinsic or extrinsic motivation

Answer 3

work preference inventory

Question 4

physiological needs

Answer 4

basic pay and food

Question 5

safety needs

Answer 5

insurance, healthcare, safety

Question 6

love and belonging

Answer 6

harmonious relationships

Question 7

esteem

Answer 7

rewards

Question 8

self-actualization

Answer 8

job rotation, job enlargement, job crafting

Question 9

an individual will behave in a manner consistent with what his/her social circle believes him/her to be

Answer 9

korman’s consistency theory

Question 10

how a person perceive one’s own worth and value

Answer 10

self-esteem

Question 11

three kinds of self-esteem

Answer 11

chronic, situational, socially-influenced

Question 12

overall self-esteem

Answer 12

chronic self-esteem

Question 13

self-esteem based on a particular circumstance

Answer 13

situational self-esteem

Question 14

pygmalion effect, golem effect, galatea effect

Answer 14

socially-influenced self-esteem

Question 15

in which high expectations lead to improved performance in a given area and low expectations lead to worse

Answer 15

pygmalion effect

Question 16

in which lower expectations placed upon individuals either by supervisors or the individual themselves lead to poorer performance by the individual.

Answer 16

golem effect

Question 17

the belief and trust in oneself and one’s abilities and potential to succeed.

Answer 17

galatea effect

Question 18

need for achievement, affiliation, and power

Answer 18

david mclelland’s learned needs theory

Question 19

employees desire jobs that are meaningful, allow autonomy, provide them with feedback

Answer 19

job characteristics theory

Question 20

jobs will have motivating potential if they have

Answer 20

skill variety, task identity, task significance

Question 21

existence, relatedness, and growth

Answer 21

clayton alderfer’s ERG theory

Question 22

physio and safety

Answer 22

existence needs

Question 23

self-esteem and self-actualization

Answer 23

growth

Question 23

love and belongingness

Answer 23

relatedness

Question 24

Frederick Herzberg believed that job-related factors could be divided into two categories—hygiene factors and motivators.

Answer 24

two-factor theory/dual structure theory

Question 24

are those job-related elements that result from but do not involve the job itself. lower level needs

Answer 24

hygiene factors

Question 25

are job elements that do concern actual tasks and duties. higher level needs

Answer 25

motivator factors

Question 26

input (effort, work, education, experience) output (good coworkers, learnings, pay and benefits)

Answer 26

equity theory

Question 27

directs our attention, efforts, and focus on a particular direction. maintain task persistence facilitate development of task strategies

Answer 27

goal-setting theory

Question 28

attributes of a goal

Answer 28

goal difficulty, goal acceptance, goal specificity, feedback

Question 29

three components of expectancy theory

Answer 29

expectancy, instrumentality, valence

Question 30

the belief that more effort expended on the task, the greater our performance

Answer 30

expectancy

Question 31

the belief that if we perform well, we will receive a greater reward

Answer 31

instrumentality

Question 32

what value we place on the expected outcome of our efforts

Answer 32

valence

Question 33

reinforcement is relative and that a supervisor can reinforce an employee with something that on the surface does not appear to be a reinforcer

Answer 33

premack principle

Question 34

base their incentives on performance appraisal scores rather than on such objective performance measures as sales and productivity.

Answer 34

merit pay

Question 35

pay employees according to how much they individually produce.

Answer 35

pay for performance

Question 36

types of individual incentives

Answer 36

merit pay pay for performance

Question 37

types of group incentive plans

Answer 37

profit-sharing gainsharing stock options

Question 38

if employees exceed the base/expected profit, they can get a percentage of it as a reward

Answer 38

profit-sharing

Question 39

with bonus based on improvements / baselines and improvements

Answer 39

gainsharing

Question 40

employees can buy stocks

Answer 40

stocks