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Chapter 7 Quiz
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All of the following are ingredients common to MBO programs EXCEPT:
An explicit time period
Participative decision making
Consistent monetary rewards
Performance feedback
A participative process that uses the entire capacity of employees and is
designed to encourage increased commitment to the organization's success
is:
MBO
Employee involvement
Reengineering
OB Mod
Participation _____________.
Is synonymous with employee involvement
Is a more limited term than employee involvement
Is the larger framework of which employee involvement is a subset
And employee stock ownership plans are synonymous
Work groups of employees and supervisors who meet regularly to discuss
their quality problems and recommend solutions is a form of participative
management called:
Department teams
Cooperative groups
Evaluation teams
Quality circles
_____ is an incentive plan where improvements in group productivity
determine the total amount of money that is allocated.
ESOP
Gainsharing
Variable pay
Scanlon plan
Which of the following is NOT a downside of skill-based pay?
People can "top out".
Skills can become obsolete.
Ambitious people can confront minimal advancement opportunities.
People are paid for acquiring skills for which there is no immediate
need.
In the future, we can expect the percentage of large-and medium-sized
companies offering flexible benefit plans to reflect:
The expanding diversity among employees
Growing entitlement
Greater competition for employees
Greater desire to give employees more
To motivate professionals, you should do all of the following EXCEPT:
Provide them with ongoing challenging projects
Give them autonomy
Force them to assume managerial responsibilities
Allow them to structure their work in ways that they find productive
Whole Foods Market uses which type of variable pay programs?
Piece rate plans and gainsharing
Piece rate plans and profit sharing
Profit sharing and gainsharing
None of the above
In order to maximize the motivation of a diverse workforce, the key word
will be:
Fairness
Flexibility
Status
Money
In MBO, goals are unilaterally set by the employee and communicated to
the boss.
True
False
Employee involvement is a participative process that uses the entire
capacity of employees and is designed to encourage increased commitment
to the organization's success.
True
False
Quality circles have the authority to find problems, assess alternative
actions, and implement a solution.
True
False
ESOPs are company-established benefit plans in which employees acquire
stock as part of their benefits.
True
False
Employee involvement programs could provide employees with intrinsic
motivation by increasing opportunities for growth and responsibility.
True
False
Gainsharing and profit sharing are the same thing.
True
False
Skill-based pay encourages employees to concentrate on one or two highly
desirable skills.
True
False
Traditional benefit packages were designed for the typical employee of the
1950s; fewer than 10% of employees now fit that stereotype, requiring an
updated look at these benefits.
True
False
The loyalty of professionals is more often to their profession than to their
employee.
True
False
High pay will usually lead to highly motivated workers in low-skilled,
highly repetitious jobs.
True
False
What is MBO?
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What is a variable-pay program?
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