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Both job enrichment and goal setting theory stress the value of performance feedback to employees.

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Task variety and skill variety refer to the same thing.

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Recent research into the Job Characteristics Model has confirmed that in addition to the original outcomes provided by the use of the model (e.g.,job satisfaction and internal work motivation) ,all of the following were discovered to be beneficial outcomes EXCEPT

Flexible work ________ refer to work options that permit flexibility in terms of where and/or when work is completed.

________ characteristics refer to the kinds of knowledge,skill,and ability demands required to perform a job.

What is restriction of productivity and why does it occur?

Managers are more supportive than blue-collar employees of the idea that pay should be closely tied to performance.

Job enrichment is said to improve job context satisfaction.

Which of the following is most accurate about the importance of pay as a motivator?

An organization wishes to base pay on objective,measurable performance data,but the performance of individual workers cannot be isolated and measured.Which system should it adopt?

Employees and managers seriously underestimate the importance of ________ as a motivator.

Generally,managers underestimate the pay of their employees and peers and overestimate the pay of their superiors.

June works a compressed workweek.This means that she works fewer total hours a week than normal.

Job enrichment and job enlargement both involve increasing the depth of a job.

Skill-based pay is a motivation system whereby people are paid on the basis of how many skills they have mastered.

________ theory provides the theoretical foundation for Management by Objectives.

________ may well be the most important and effective motivator of performance.

A low scope job would have a low motivating potential score.

A job in which a whole piece of work is done from beginning to end is said to be high in ________.

Skill variety refers to the degree to which a job requires employees to perform a wide range of tasks on the job.