management test 2 Flashcards

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Who were the 3 management pioneers?

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Fayol, Fredrick Taylor, Frank and Dr. Lillian Gilbreth

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What was were the five principals of management Fayol sugged there were?

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Unity of command, line of authority, stability of tenure (turnover), initiative, and esprit de corps

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what is stability of tenure?

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the length of time employee serves in important

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What is the percentage of employees that leave a company within one year?

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Turnover

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What is the point of Fayol’s iniatiave principal?

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It is important that managers give employees the ability to supply new ideas and creativity

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What is it called when a team of people are cohesive and work well together and have a common sense of purpose?

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Esprit de Corps

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What was Fredrick Taylor’s management practice called?

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One Best Way

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What did Fredrick Taylor do that was important to management?

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Took a task and broke it down into components to figure out how to make work more efficient

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What did Taylor use to determine efficiency of employees?

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Timestudies, Adapting tools and workers, and Taylorite Efficiency

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What was Taylor most known for?

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He thought he was the expert and anyone being negative he would fire

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11
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Who is considered the “Mother of Management”?

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Lillian Gilbreth

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12
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What did Frank Gilbreth do different than other workers?

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He designed a scafold to be more efficient

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What were the 5 things the Gilbreths interested in?

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Time and motion studies, eliminating unnecessary motions (Decrease fatigue, used film to study works, ergonomics, and improve employee attitude

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14
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What is the science of equipment design?

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Ergonomics

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15
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What is a stable pattern of characteristics or traits?

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Personality

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What are the Big 5 Personality Traits?

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Conscientiousness, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Openness to Experience, and Extroversion

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What is it called when an employee is organized, dependable, achievment oriented, and self-disciplined?

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Conscientiousness

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What are characteristics of Agreeableness?

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Trusting, caring, gentle, cooperative

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19
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What is the best predictor of task performance and turnover?

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Conscientiousness

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20
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What is conscientiousness positively related to?

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Safety and training performance

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21
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What is agreeableness positively and negatively related to?

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Postive: job performance with interaction; negative: turnover

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What is it called when employees have POOR emotional stability and are hostile?

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Neuroticism

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What is neuroticism positively and negatively related to?

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Postive: turnover; negative: performance

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What does it mean to be high in openess to experience?

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employee is creative, imaginative, curious, do well in training tasks, and better entrepreneurs

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25
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What is the management definition of extroversion?

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People who are high seek stimulation outside themselves

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26
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What are some characteristics of extroversion?

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Positively related to sales type of job performance, get energy from other people

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27
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What is the difference between a strong and weak situation?

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Strong: expectations are clear (wedding), weak: expectations not clear (party)

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28
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What are the other 5 personality dimensions?

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Self concept (self-esteem, self-monitoring, and self-efficacy) and proactive personality

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What is self-concept?

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Aware of ones self and perception of themselves

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30
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What is the evaluation of ones self and the degree to which employee has positive feelings?

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Self-esteem

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What is the difference between high and low self-esteem?

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high: confident; low: self-doubt

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What is self-monitoring?

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Awareness of and the ability to read social cues and to adjust behavior accordingly

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What is the difference between high and low self-monitoring?

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high: able to adjust; low: unable to adjust

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What is the belief in ones ability to perform a particular task successfully and is depedent on task employee is doing?

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Self-efficacy

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35
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What are the 3 ways Self-efficacy can be trained?

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Vicarious modeling (role modeling), enactive mastery (training), and verbal encouragement

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36
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What is proactive personality?

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extent to which individuals act to influence their environment

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37
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What are some characteristics of proactive personality?

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Related to sales performance; high= likely to persist in solving problems

38
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What are 3 personality tests?

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Inteligence, personality, ability

39
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What is the employment practice that appears neutral, but has dicriminatory affects on a protected group?

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Adverse impact

40
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What are three important values talked about?

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Achievement, benevolence, and security

41
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What is the willingness to do something for someone else without expecting anything in return?

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benevolence

42
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What is the process for work attitude?

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Antecedent, work attitude, and work outcome

43
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What are some examples of antecedents?

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Personality, values, trust, fit, stress, work relationships, and psychological contract

44
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What are some examples of work attitudes?

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Job satisfaction and organizational commitment

45
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What are some examples of work outcomes?

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Job performance, turnover, absenteeism, and organizational citizenship behaviors

46
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What is the persistent tendency to feel and behave toward some aspect of the environment?

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Work attitude

47
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What is job satisfaction?

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employees feelings toward their job (pay, learn, something important)

48
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What is the emotional attachment to an organization?

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Organizational commitment; high=strong desire to stay with company

49
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What is a psychological contract?

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Expectation about reciprocity between an employee and his or her organization (informal and unspoken)

50
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What is the degree to which employee’s skills and personality match job and organization?

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Fit

51
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What are the two kinds of fit?

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Person-job fit and person-organization fit

52
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What are voluntary behaviors that employees perform to help their co-workers and to benefit the organization called?

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Organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) ; going above and beyong call of dity

53
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What are the 5 need based theories?

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McGregor’s X and Y, Aldefer’s ERG Theory, Maslows Hierachy of Needs, Herzbergs 2-factor theory, and McClelland Learned Needs Theory

54
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What is motivation?

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Set of forces that initiate behavior and detmine the forms, direction, intensity, and duration

55
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What were the two kinds of Theorys McGregor discusses?

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Theory X and Theory Y

56
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What is the difference between Theory X and Theory Y?

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Theory X the manager believes workers are lazy and need direction (coerce workers); theory y workers are self-motivated (manager is a coach)

57
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What are the 5 needs discussed by Maslow from lower to higher levels of needs?

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Phsiological, safety, love/social, esteem, and self-actualization

58
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What is the difference between self-actualization and esteem?

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Self-actualization: desire for fulfillment and need to realize full potential; Esteem: desire for recognition/respect from others

59
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What is the problem with Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs

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Higher level needs (self-actualization) cannot be met until lower level (phsiological) ones are met

60
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What are the 3 levels in Aldefer’s ERG theory?

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Existence, relatedness, and growth

61
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What is the key to Aldefer’s ERG theory?

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Frustration-Regression Hypothesis

62
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What is the definition of frustration-regression hypothesis?

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An individual may move up to higher level needs but can also regress down

63
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What are the two factors of Herzberg’s Theory?

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Motivators and hygiene factors

64
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What are some examples of motivators?

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Recognition, responsibility, achievement, advancements, work itself

65
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What are some examples of hygiene factors and which one is criticized the most?

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Pay, company policies, supervision type, and working conditions; pay should be a motivator

66
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Which theory receives the greatest amount of support?

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McClellands Learned Needs Theory

67
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What are the 3 needs that people acquire through life experience as discussed by McClelland?

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Need for achievement, need for affiliation, and need for power

68
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What are the 5 conditions you need to have a high level of achievement?

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Success through own effort, tasks should be medium difficulty, need very clear feedback, need to be creative and innovative, need to be able to look into future

69
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What is the desire to work with others?

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Need for affiliation

70
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What are types types of power found under McClellands Need for power?

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Personalized power and socialized power

71
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What is the difference between personalized and socialized power?

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Personalized: need to control (hitler); socialized: mix of personalized with altruism (high want to use power to help)

72
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What kind of testing did McClelland use?

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TAT: Thermatic Apperception Test (Ask people question about picture and determine need from answers/stories

73
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What technique is McClelland using with TAT?

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Projective technique

74
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What are the two processed Theories of Motivation?

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Adam’s Equity Theory and Expectancy Theory (Vroom)

75
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What does Adam’s Equity Theory say?

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People look at what other people get and reference (referent) it back to self

76
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What happens when an employee sees self as less than referent? More than?

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Less than: work harder and sabotage referent; more than: motivate others and slack

77
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What is focused on perceptions of fair treatment at work?

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Organizatioanl Justice

78
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What are 3 types of organizational justice?

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Distributive justice, procedural justic, and interactional justice

79
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What is the difference between distributive and procedural justice?

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Distributive: perception rewards are fair; procedural: perception that procedures are fair

80
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What is interactional justice?

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Employee’s perception that they are treated with respect and dignity

81
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What does expectancy theory say?

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Valence drives Efforts and lead to performance that leads to rewards

82
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What is an employees assessment that his or her effort will lead to performance?

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Expectancy

83
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What is it called when employees performance will be rewarded?

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Instrumentality

84
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What is the difference between positive and negative valence?

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Positive valence for reward means they value it (watch over a knife)

85
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What are the two environmental theories of motivation?

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Reinforcement theory (skinner) and goal setting theory (cork and latham)

86
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What does Skinner say about reinforcement theory?

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Behavior is a function of its contingent consequences

87
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What is the outcome of postive and negative behaviors?

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positive reinforcement (variable schedule is more effective); negative: punishment

88
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What is the problem with the reinforcement theory?

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People evaluate and change and just because a consequence is given doesn’t mean people will care

89
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What does the goal setting theory say is most effective?

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SMART goals

90
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What does SMART stand for?

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Specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, timely

91
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Why are SMART goals effective?

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1) they direct employees effort and attention, 2) motivate prolonged effort over short time (persistancy), 3) motives them to develop strategies