Outcome 2.1

Question 1

Career advancement

Answer 1

The assignment of more responsibility to employees or the promotion to positions that brings rewards

Question 2

Hierarchy of needs

Answer 2

Maslow’s sequence of human needs in the order of their importances.

Psychological Need
Safety and Security Need
Social Need
Esteem Needs
Self-actualisation Need

Question 3

Human resource management

Answer 3

The effective management of the formal relationship between the employer and employees

Question 4

Human resource manager

Answer 4

Coordinates all the activities involved in acquiring, developing, maintaining and terminating employees from a business’s human resources

Question 5

Performance-related pay

Answer 5

Where an employee receives a financial awards based on meeting or exceeding performance standard

Question 6

Support

Answer 6

The assistance or services provided by the business to help employees cope with difficulties that may impede their work performance

Question 7

Motivation

Answer 7

The individual, internal process that directs, energises and sustains a person’s behaviour

Question 8

Sanction

Answer 8

A form of penalty or discipline imposed on an employee for a poor performance

Question 9

Productivity

Answer 9

A measure of performance that indicates how many inputs it takes to produces output

Question 10

Investment in training

Answer 10

The direction of finances, or resources such as time into the teaching of skills to employee

Question 11

Recruitment

Answer 11

The process of attracting suitable applicants to the position.

Question 12

Locke and Latham’s

Answer 12

According to Locke’s theory, employees are motivated to achieve goals they have helped to set. Clarity, challenge, commitment, feedback and task complexity

Question 13

Lawrence and Nohria’s

Answer 13

Lawrence and Nohria’s Four Drive Theory is based on the concept of drives that exist within all of us. Drive to acquire, bond, learn and defend.