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A. Extinction
B. Negative reinforcement
C. Positive reinforcement
D. Process perspectives
A. Consideration and initiating structure
B. Behaviorally anchored rating scale
C. Job description
D. There is a bona fide occupational qualification
A. Moods
B. Attitudes
C. Emotions
D. Behaviors
E. Beliefs
A. Recruiting
B. Training
C. Reference checking
D. Performance appraisal
A. Implement the recommended changes to resolve a problem
B. Assume responsibility for the outcomes of a solution they implemented
C. Provide recommendations after a discussion amongst department members
D. Resolve problems of different departments in an organization simultaneously
E. Combine the expertise of employees across different divisions and organizational levels
A. The speaker has little time
B. The audience is sympathetic
C. The audience is unfamiliar
D. The message is simple
A. Organic
B. Mechanistic
C. Stable
D. High-tech
A. Small and given only once
B. Large and given at irregular intervals
C. Given prior to the desired behavior response
D. Given immediately following the desired behavior
E. Presented publicly with a large number of witnesses
A. Oral, written, and final
B. Feedforward, concurrent, and feedback
C. Anticipatory, active, and reactive
D. Primary, secondary, and tertiary
E. Forward, current, and backwards
A. Job design
B. Job enrichment
C. Skill variety
D. Autonomy
A. Employee's feelings of self-worth
B. Pat on the back from your boss
C. Pay raise
D. Promotion
E. Bonus
A. That they do not increase the diversity and mix of employees
B. Their limited commitment to specific companies
C. That they can only be used for entry-level positions
D. That they generate many unqualified candidates
A. Affect
B. Attitude consonance
C. Behavioral tendency
D. Cognitive dissonance
A. Adolescents and older siblings
B. Grandparents and teens
C. Fathers and sons
D. Mothers and daughters
A. They experience a cognitive dissonance between their job attitude and behavior
B. The affective component of the attitude is extremely strong
C. There is a weak relationship between their attitude and behavior
D. They have a voice in decisions
E. They experience an emotional contagion while performing their job duties
A. The Vroom model
B. Hersey and Blanchard's situational theory
C. Tannenbaum and Schmidt's theory
D. Fiedler's contingency model
E. The path-goal theory
A. Criterion-related Validity
B. Content Validity
C. Validity
A. Vicarious modeling
B. Enactive mastery
C. Operant conditioning
D. Deficit principle
A. Process
B. Job design
C. Reinforcement
D. Content
E. Job satisfaction
A. Content
B. Process
C. Job Design
D. Reinforcement
E. Job Satisfaction
A. Attitudes
B. Emotions
C. Moods
D. Instrumental values
A. Positive reinforcement
B. Referent power
C. Extinction
D. Punishment
A. Objective
B. Performance
C. Reliability
D. Outsourcing
A. Considers issues of legality regarding discrimination in hiring
B. Emphasizes issues related to white collar crime
C. Focuses on employees rather than employers
D. Studies corporations as a gestalt enviornment
A. Employee engagement and rational commitment
B. Employee engagement and job satisfaction
C. Rational commitment and emotional commitment
D. Job satisfaction and job involvement
E. Emotional commitment and employee engagement
A. Focus employees' attention on critical aspects of their jobs
B. Energize behavior
C. Create a tension between the current state and the desired state
D. Be truly accepted by workers
E. Do all of these
A. Reactive behavior
B. Positive reinforcement
C. Referent power
D. Extinction
A. Extrinsic and intrinsic
B. Results, behaviors and actions, and nonperformance considerations.
C. Positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, punishment, and extinction
D. Attraction, motivation and retention
A. Ersistence
B. Direction
C. Volume
D. Intensity
E. Integration
A. Headaches
B. Burnout
C. Forgetfulness
D. Overeating
A. Physical ability tests
B. Work sample tests
C. Aptitude tests
D. Psychomotor tests
A. Positive reinforcement
B. Negative reinforcement
C. Positive punishment
D. Negative punishment
A. Organizational citizenship
B. The halo effect.
C. None
A. Referent power
B. Coercive Power
C. Reward Power
D. Expert Power
A. Motivating factors
B. Needs
C. Satisfier factors
D. Hygiene factors
A. Individual outcome
B. Individual Mechanism
C. Organizational mechanism
D. Group mechanism
A. Increased self-evaluation and change.
B. Increased groupthink.
C. Increased creativity and innovation.
D. Increased curiosity among group members.
E. Increased opportunity to air problems.
A. Emotions
B. Culture
C. Values
D. Communication
E. Diversity
A. Control
B. Plan
C. Lead
D. Organize.
E. All of the above
A. Hard work more
B. Agreeableness less
C. Conscientiousness less
D. Agreeableness more
A. Two-factor theory
B. Self-determination theory
C. Acquired Needs Theory
D. Expectancy Theory
E. Hierarchy of Needs Theory
A. Reinforcement and Social Learning
B. Provide consistent results each time it is used.
C. Be used in a wide cross-section of industries.
D. Be statistically robust.
A. Provide consistent results each time it is used.
B. Be used in a wide cross-section of industries.
C. Be statistically robust.
D. Be used across hierarchical levels in an organization.
E. Actually measure people on relevant job characteristics.
A. Tasks they perform
B. Territories they serve
C. Products or services they manufacture or produce
D. Type of customer they serve
A. By organizational leadership.
B. Formally by group leaders.
C. Informally by the entire group
A. There is low uncertainty avoidance
B. There is high power distance
C. Individuals are low in assertiveness
D. Subordinates are reasonably independent
A. Job autonomy
B. Flexibility
C. Job security
D. Compensation
A. Centralize authority
B. Attitude consonance
C. Behavioral tendency
D. Cognitive dissonance
A. The work is complex and requires different perspectives
B. The work creates a common purpose or set of goals for the people in the group that is more than the aggregate of individual goals
C. The work is simple and does not require diverse input
D. Several tasks that are interdependent are to be performed for completing the work
E. Performing the work requires learning a new technology or understanding a new system
A. Find facts
B. Create consensus on a new product
C. Interpret facts
D. Solve problems quickly