BMGT First Exam – Instructor-Approved Q&A –
100% Accuracy
Pay - ✔✔What contributes least to employee engagement in North America
False - ✔✔Job involvement represents the extent to which an individual is personally involved with his
or her work role. This has nothing to do with job satisfaction
True - ✔✔A manager should use Schwartz's model to understand employees and assign them tasks that
are consistent with their values
True - ✔✔In Maslow's need hierarchy, the most basic need (and the one that must be met first) is
physiological
Love - ✔✔The need for belonging is part of the need for
False - ✔✔The goal of the job characteristics model is to promote low extrinsic motivation
Autonomy - ✔✔__________ is the extent to which a job enables an individual to experience freedom,
independence, and discretion
True - ✔✔Equity theory is a model of motivation that explains how people strive for fairness
Negative inequity - ✔✔A person will experience ________ when his or her outcome to input ratio is less
than that of a relevant comparison person
False - ✔✔Content theories of motivation focus on how internal factors and environmental
characteristics influence employee motivation
, Valence - ✔✔__________ is the positive or negative value people place on outcomes
Distributive - ✔✔__________ justice is the perceived fairness of how resources and rewards are
distributed or allocated
True - ✔✔Intensity pertains to the amount of effort being invested in an activity
Intrinsic motivation - ✔✔___________ occurs when an individual is "turned to one's work because of
the positive internal feelings that are generated by doing well"
True - ✔✔Motivation explains why we do the things we do
True - ✔✔Job crafting may involve changing task boundaries, the relational nature of a job or cognitions
about the job
True - ✔✔An instrumentality represents an individual's belief that a particular outcome is contingent on
accomplishing a specific level of performance
Equity Theory - ✔✔What is not a content theory of motivation?
Advancement - ✔✔Which is not an example of a hygiene factor in Herzberg's motivator-hygiene model?
False - ✔✔Job enlargement is the process of modifying a job to increase the opportunities to experience
achievement, recognition, stimulating work, responsibility, and advancement
Persistance - ✔✔Refers to how long we focus on an activity
Experienced meaningfulness of the work - ✔✔In the job characteristics model, the presence of skill
variety, task identity, and task significance cause an employee to feel
100% Accuracy
Pay - ✔✔What contributes least to employee engagement in North America
False - ✔✔Job involvement represents the extent to which an individual is personally involved with his
or her work role. This has nothing to do with job satisfaction
True - ✔✔A manager should use Schwartz's model to understand employees and assign them tasks that
are consistent with their values
True - ✔✔In Maslow's need hierarchy, the most basic need (and the one that must be met first) is
physiological
Love - ✔✔The need for belonging is part of the need for
False - ✔✔The goal of the job characteristics model is to promote low extrinsic motivation
Autonomy - ✔✔__________ is the extent to which a job enables an individual to experience freedom,
independence, and discretion
True - ✔✔Equity theory is a model of motivation that explains how people strive for fairness
Negative inequity - ✔✔A person will experience ________ when his or her outcome to input ratio is less
than that of a relevant comparison person
False - ✔✔Content theories of motivation focus on how internal factors and environmental
characteristics influence employee motivation
, Valence - ✔✔__________ is the positive or negative value people place on outcomes
Distributive - ✔✔__________ justice is the perceived fairness of how resources and rewards are
distributed or allocated
True - ✔✔Intensity pertains to the amount of effort being invested in an activity
Intrinsic motivation - ✔✔___________ occurs when an individual is "turned to one's work because of
the positive internal feelings that are generated by doing well"
True - ✔✔Motivation explains why we do the things we do
True - ✔✔Job crafting may involve changing task boundaries, the relational nature of a job or cognitions
about the job
True - ✔✔An instrumentality represents an individual's belief that a particular outcome is contingent on
accomplishing a specific level of performance
Equity Theory - ✔✔What is not a content theory of motivation?
Advancement - ✔✔Which is not an example of a hygiene factor in Herzberg's motivator-hygiene model?
False - ✔✔Job enlargement is the process of modifying a job to increase the opportunities to experience
achievement, recognition, stimulating work, responsibility, and advancement
Persistance - ✔✔Refers to how long we focus on an activity
Experienced meaningfulness of the work - ✔✔In the job characteristics model, the presence of skill
variety, task identity, and task significance cause an employee to feel
