Week 10

Which of the following is not a necessary condition for an effective performance-based merit pay system?

• Accurate measurement and documentation of employee performance

• Fair administration of performance-based pay decisions

• Merit pay increases large enough to be meaningful to employees

• All of the above

A _____ reward might be salary and benefits, whereas a ______ reward could be recognition or praise.

• tangible, intangible

• real, imagined

• useful, impractical

• financial, emotional

Which of the following is the most legitimate reason why executive salaries tend to be so much higher than other employees’ salaries?

• Executives always have more experience than other workers

• Executive decisions can dramatically impact an organization’s survival

• Salary is the only motivator that can be used with executives

• High salaries are needed to recruit executives to high positions

Job rotation is an example of humanistic job design?

• True

• False

Vertical loading refers to which of the following job design strategies?

• Demand reduction

• Role clarification

• Job enrichment

• Interdependence building

A(n) ______ theory of leadership highlights the influence of situational factors on a leader’s behaviors

• environmental

• multi-factorial

• contingency

• scenario

A _____ leader influences subordinates by inspiration; a _____ leader does so by behavioral principles of reward and punishment.

• good; bad

• transformational; transactional

• transforming; restoring

• internal; external

There are only two more weeks to submit the last two takeaways for credit

• True

• False