Work and motivation & Labour relations
ARRANGE THESE WORDS DEPENDING ON WHICH THEORY THEY RELATE TO
Theory X
TRADITIONAL, WORKERS INCAPABLE OF TAKING
RESPONSIBILITY, PEOPLE ARE LAZY, THREATS
AND REWARDS
Theory Y
MORE PROGRESSIVE, PEOPLE HAVE A
PSYCHOLOGICAL NEED TO WORK, BIGGER
DEMANDS, WORKERS WANT RESPONSIBILITY
Answer the questions!
X, X, Y, X
WHICH CONCEPT/TERM IS DESCRIBED?
Skilled, responsibility, to motivate, job security, salary, benefits or perks, to be promoted, wages,
labour/industrial relations, employer
FILL IN THE BLANKS
X, Y, Y,
SATISFIERS OR MOTIVATORS?
Satisfiers
Good labour relations, job security, adequate
salary, good working conditions, holidays
Motivators
Responsibility, promotion, challenging job,
recognition, opportunities to travel
So how do managers motivate people in boring, repetitive jobs?
Responsibility, team, staff, shelves, till
MANAGING & MOTIVATION
Self-esteem, acknowledgement, self-actualization, self-fulfillment, sense of achievement,
empowerment, enabling, assertive, commitment
SOME MORE VOCABULARY RELATED TO LABOUR RELATIONS
Work-to-rules, go-slow/slow-down, industrial action, collective bargaining, picket, conglomerate,
consult, confrontational, manual workers, public sector, adversary, trade union, uneconomical,
deregulation, tyranny
Match up the words with their definitions
f, a, d, b, c, e
Cross the odd one out and explain your choice
a) Promotion - a motivator among satisfiers (but it is your job to explain this nicely in a sentence or
two)
b) people have a psychological need to work - argument used in Theory y, the rest belong to Theory x
c) line authority - the rest are types of industrial action
d) to consult - the only positive concept
e) management
Match to create word partnerships! Use the partnerships you created to write a pragraph about
labour relations
Labour unions, adequate wages, psychological need, working conditions, unskilled workers, nonunionized workers, repetitive jobs
True or false?
F, T, T, F, T
LABOUR RELATIONS
Complete the text about worker-management relations with the words in italics.
1) collective bargaining, 2) individual grievance, 3) layoffs, 4a) severance package, 4b) length of
service, 5) official dispute, 6) strikes, 7) picketing, 8) boycotts
The following sentences are wrong. Replaced the underlined words with their opposites
to create correct sentences.
1. recession
2. white-collar
3. inflexible
4. job insecurits, short
5. decreasing, increasing
6. stable, long- tenured
7. a decrease
8. less, longer