UF MAN 3025 CORRECT FINAL ALL EXAMS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Expectancy - ✔✔is the belief that a particular level of effort will lead to a particular
level of performance
✔✔Instrumentality - ✔✔is the expectation that successful performance of a task will
lead to a desired outcome
✔✔Valence - ✔✔is value, the importance a worker assigns to a possible outcome or
rewards
✔✔Job design - ✔✔is the distribution of an organizations work among its employees
and the application of motivation theories to jobs to increase satisfaction and
performance
✔✔Job enlargement - ✔✔is the process of increasing the number of task in a job to
increase variety and motivation
✔✔Job simplification - ✔✔is the process of reducing the number of tasks a worker
performs
, ✔✔Job enrichment - ✔✔consists of building motivating factors such as responsibility,
achievement, recognition, stimulating work, and advancement into a job
✔✔Job characteristics model - ✔✔consist of five core job characteristics that affect
three critical psychological states of an employee. The five characteristics are (1) skill
variety, (2) task identity, (3) task significance, (4) autonomy, (5) feedback
✔✔Skill variety - ✔✔The extent to which a person uses a wide variety of abilities and
skills on the job
✔✔Task identity - ✔✔the extent to which a worker performs all of the task required for
job completion form being to end
✔✔Task significance - ✔✔the extent to which a job has an effect on other people, either
inside or outside the organization
✔✔Autonomy - ✔✔the extent to which an employee can make his or her own choices
about scheduling and performing tasks
✔✔Feedback - ✔✔the extent to which managers give workers clear, direct information
about the quality of the organization
✔✔Reinforcement theory - ✔✔attempts to explain behaviors as a product of (blank), or
consequences administered as a result of the behavior
✔✔Three Laws Governing Reinforcement - ✔✔Law of effect, Law of contingent
reinforcement, Law of immediate reinforcement
✔✔Law of effect - ✔✔states that behavior with positive consequences tends to be
repeated, whereas behavior with negative consequences tends to not be repeated
✔✔Law of continent reinforcement - ✔✔states that behavior can only be shaped if the
reward is delivered only once the desired behavior is exhibited
✔✔Law of immediate reinforcement - ✔✔states that desired behaviors are reinforced
most effectively when the reward is delivered immediately after the behavior is exhibited
✔✔Four types of Reinforcement - ✔✔Postive reinforcement, negative reinforcement,
extinction, punishment
✔✔Postive reinforcement - ✔✔is that use of positive consequences to encourage
desirable behavior
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Expectancy - ✔✔is the belief that a particular level of effort will lead to a particular
level of performance
✔✔Instrumentality - ✔✔is the expectation that successful performance of a task will
lead to a desired outcome
✔✔Valence - ✔✔is value, the importance a worker assigns to a possible outcome or
rewards
✔✔Job design - ✔✔is the distribution of an organizations work among its employees
and the application of motivation theories to jobs to increase satisfaction and
performance
✔✔Job enlargement - ✔✔is the process of increasing the number of task in a job to
increase variety and motivation
✔✔Job simplification - ✔✔is the process of reducing the number of tasks a worker
performs
, ✔✔Job enrichment - ✔✔consists of building motivating factors such as responsibility,
achievement, recognition, stimulating work, and advancement into a job
✔✔Job characteristics model - ✔✔consist of five core job characteristics that affect
three critical psychological states of an employee. The five characteristics are (1) skill
variety, (2) task identity, (3) task significance, (4) autonomy, (5) feedback
✔✔Skill variety - ✔✔The extent to which a person uses a wide variety of abilities and
skills on the job
✔✔Task identity - ✔✔the extent to which a worker performs all of the task required for
job completion form being to end
✔✔Task significance - ✔✔the extent to which a job has an effect on other people, either
inside or outside the organization
✔✔Autonomy - ✔✔the extent to which an employee can make his or her own choices
about scheduling and performing tasks
✔✔Feedback - ✔✔the extent to which managers give workers clear, direct information
about the quality of the organization
✔✔Reinforcement theory - ✔✔attempts to explain behaviors as a product of (blank), or
consequences administered as a result of the behavior
✔✔Three Laws Governing Reinforcement - ✔✔Law of effect, Law of contingent
reinforcement, Law of immediate reinforcement
✔✔Law of effect - ✔✔states that behavior with positive consequences tends to be
repeated, whereas behavior with negative consequences tends to not be repeated
✔✔Law of continent reinforcement - ✔✔states that behavior can only be shaped if the
reward is delivered only once the desired behavior is exhibited
✔✔Law of immediate reinforcement - ✔✔states that desired behaviors are reinforced
most effectively when the reward is delivered immediately after the behavior is exhibited
✔✔Four types of Reinforcement - ✔✔Postive reinforcement, negative reinforcement,
extinction, punishment
✔✔Postive reinforcement - ✔✔is that use of positive consequences to encourage
desirable behavior
