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Which theory assumes that employees are inherently lazy and dislike work?
Theory X
should contain the following eight sections: job title, brief summary, work activities, tools and equipment used, work context, performance standards, compensation information, and personal requirements
Job description
It is the application of methods, facts, and principles of the science of psychology to people at work.
Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Jin is a psychologist who observes the behavior of and systematic conditions. Jin is in the employees at their workplace under well-controlled field of psychology
Industrial and Organizational
Who has a substantial influence on increasing industrial psychology’s public awareness and credibility?
Hugo Munsterberg
Edward is concerned with increasing productivity to the extent that he regards his workers as extensions of the machines they operate. What approach of leadership is this?
Scientific management
According to Vroom and Yetton, when the leader takes known information and decides alone, it employs what kind of decision procedure?
Autocratic 1
It is a theory motivation based on a hierarchy of five needs: physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self- actualization
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
In Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs - getting praise, awards, promotions, salary increases, and publicity satisfies which need?
Esteem
The following are reasons for evaluating employee performance except:
Making job description
Currently the most used performance appraisal method.
Supervisor Appraisal
In the Philippines - there are a lot of jobs that only pay the bills, like the minimum wage earners. Jobs that pay the bills satisfy which need in Maslow’s Hierarchy?
Physiological
Which of the following will be the best at decreasing job stress?
Engaging in meaningful leisure activities
It is the written result of the Job Analysis
Job description
It is a section in a job description that can affect a person’s perceptions of the status and worth of a job.
Job title
Informal changes that employees make in their jobs is called?
Job crafting
A trainer decided to make the employees of a company participate in a role play to help them develop interpersonal skills. However, the employees seem to be shy to act with their co-workers. What is the best thing to do?
Have them warmed up and give them incentives f or participating in the role play
The statement “it is not fair to pay a poor employee the same amount of money as an excellent employee” exemplifies the need for accurate performance appraisals in:
Determining salary increases
is the systematic acquisition of skills, rules, concepts, or attitudes that result in improved
Training
You would like to hire employees who will not miss work. Your best bet would be to hire aplicants who score on the
Conscientiousness
Psychologists in concentrate on workplace design, man-machine interaction, and physical fatigue.
Human factors
Changes in employee behavior that result from an employee being studied or receiving increased attention from managers is called the:
Hawthorne effects
