MGMT 320 EVALUATION TEST ANSWERS AND
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔task identity - ✔✔Which core job characteristic describes the extent to which a job
requires the worker to perform all of the tasks needed to complete the job from
beginning to end?
✔✔task significance - ✔✔which core job characteristic refers to the degree to which the
individual perceives that the job affects the lives of other whether inside or outside the
organization?
✔✔autonomy - ✔✔the extent to which a job required the workers to make choices about
scheduling different tasks and deciding how to perform them.
✔✔personal and psychological development - ✔✔contingency factors refer to the
degree to which individuals want _____ and _______.
✔✔task identity - ✔✔Jakob thought he would enjoy his job as a web designer, but it
turns out that he is responsible only for updating web pages and not for creating them,
too. Jakob has low____ ______.
✔✔modification - ✔✔The use of reinforcement theory to change human behavior is
called behavior ______.
✔✔1. knowledge of actual results of work
2. responsibility for work outcomes
3. meaningfulness of work - ✔✔3 critical psychological states identified by the job
characteristics model.
✔✔reinforcement theory - ✔✔"Consequences influence behavior" best describes ____
_____.
, ✔✔negative reinforcement - ✔✔According to reinforcement theory, turning in your
monthly expense report on time so that your supervisor will not nag you for it is an
example of ____ _____.
✔✔measurable - ✔✔to be successful, an incentive compensation plan must be
________-.
✔✔merit - ✔✔Pay for performance, basing pay on one's results, is also known as ____
pay.
✔✔piece rate - ✔✔Merilee is a seamstress. She is paid 10$ for each skirt. is an
example of ____ ___.
✔✔motivate employee to work harder for more money - ✔✔The goal of an incentive
compensation plan is to...
✔✔-they are agreed on by both employees and managers
-they link rewards to performance - ✔✔characteristics of the best incentive
compensation plans
✔✔1. learning and development
2. tuition reimbursement
3. studying co-workers - ✔✔3 types of learning opportunites
✔✔option - ✔✔Patrick's company allows employees to buy stock at a future date for a
discounted price. This is referred to as a stock______.
✔✔flourishing - ✔✔the extent to which our lives contain positive emotions, engagement,
relationships, meaning, and achievement (PERMA).
✔✔long-term goal - ✔✔the 1st step in developing career readiness is to identify your
most important _____.
✔✔well-being - ✔✔According to psychologist Martin Selguiman, the combined effect of
positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and achievement constitutes
______.
✔✔measurable, results-oriented, attainable - ✔✔characteristics of long term goals
✔✔experienced meaningfulness of work - ✔✔Phoebe has degrees in journalism and
history. she enjoys her current job bc it allows her to write news articles about local
historical facts and thus, to put both of her degrees to use.
QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔task identity - ✔✔Which core job characteristic describes the extent to which a job
requires the worker to perform all of the tasks needed to complete the job from
beginning to end?
✔✔task significance - ✔✔which core job characteristic refers to the degree to which the
individual perceives that the job affects the lives of other whether inside or outside the
organization?
✔✔autonomy - ✔✔the extent to which a job required the workers to make choices about
scheduling different tasks and deciding how to perform them.
✔✔personal and psychological development - ✔✔contingency factors refer to the
degree to which individuals want _____ and _______.
✔✔task identity - ✔✔Jakob thought he would enjoy his job as a web designer, but it
turns out that he is responsible only for updating web pages and not for creating them,
too. Jakob has low____ ______.
✔✔modification - ✔✔The use of reinforcement theory to change human behavior is
called behavior ______.
✔✔1. knowledge of actual results of work
2. responsibility for work outcomes
3. meaningfulness of work - ✔✔3 critical psychological states identified by the job
characteristics model.
✔✔reinforcement theory - ✔✔"Consequences influence behavior" best describes ____
_____.
, ✔✔negative reinforcement - ✔✔According to reinforcement theory, turning in your
monthly expense report on time so that your supervisor will not nag you for it is an
example of ____ _____.
✔✔measurable - ✔✔to be successful, an incentive compensation plan must be
________-.
✔✔merit - ✔✔Pay for performance, basing pay on one's results, is also known as ____
pay.
✔✔piece rate - ✔✔Merilee is a seamstress. She is paid 10$ for each skirt. is an
example of ____ ___.
✔✔motivate employee to work harder for more money - ✔✔The goal of an incentive
compensation plan is to...
✔✔-they are agreed on by both employees and managers
-they link rewards to performance - ✔✔characteristics of the best incentive
compensation plans
✔✔1. learning and development
2. tuition reimbursement
3. studying co-workers - ✔✔3 types of learning opportunites
✔✔option - ✔✔Patrick's company allows employees to buy stock at a future date for a
discounted price. This is referred to as a stock______.
✔✔flourishing - ✔✔the extent to which our lives contain positive emotions, engagement,
relationships, meaning, and achievement (PERMA).
✔✔long-term goal - ✔✔the 1st step in developing career readiness is to identify your
most important _____.
✔✔well-being - ✔✔According to psychologist Martin Selguiman, the combined effect of
positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and achievement constitutes
______.
✔✔measurable, results-oriented, attainable - ✔✔characteristics of long term goals
✔✔experienced meaningfulness of work - ✔✔Phoebe has degrees in journalism and
history. she enjoys her current job bc it allows her to write news articles about local
historical facts and thus, to put both of her degrees to use.
