Due: 21 September 2023
Semester 2/ 2023
Personnel Psychology: Employee Retention
, Questions and Answers
1. Which answer best describes long-term incentives?
a. They reward employees who have been with the organisation a long time.
b. They are a good way of retaining employees and promoting agency theory.
c. They have been around in the organisation for a long time.
2. Organisations can help plateaued individuals by _______.
a. Maintaining existing organisational structures
b. Fostering career adaptability
c. Providing minimal means of recognition.
3. Utilising fictitious self-development programmes.The following is an example of
voluntary turnover intention:
a. An unhappy employee decides to resign owing to poor performance.
b. An employee is asked to resign owing to poor performance.
c. highly-competent employee leaves owing to a retrenchment exercise.
d. A highly-competent employee leaves owing to external career opportunities.
4. The highest level of analysis according to Swanson's taxonomy of performance is
___________:
a. Invent
b. Troubleshoot
c. Operate
d. Improve
e. Understand.