Business activity: Vocabs

Worker motivation can be defined as

• employees working hard because they fear losing their jobs
• workers working hard to do their best for the business
• employees travelling a long way to get to work
• workers work hard just when their manager is watching

People work hard for all of the following reasons except

• earning money.
• having social contact
• gaining recognition
• watching TV

Job satisfaction can be defined as:

• being happy when work is finished
• being happy when more jobs come in
• being happy when an unemployed person finds a job
• being happy at work because of the type of job being done

The best definition of wages calculated by time rate is:

• the hours worked multiplied by the hourly rate of pay
• multiplying the amount produced by a rate per unit of output
•  a salary paid each month
• wages added to the fringe benefits

What was the topic of our lesson today?

• Motivation

• Motivating and Rewarding Employees

• Managers and Employess Motivation

• Motivating and Rewarding Managers

Which of the following is a basic need?

• love
• belonging
• shelter
• safety

Motivating staff by giving them additional challenging tasks or responsibility is known as

• Job rotation
• Delegation
• Job enrichment
• Job enlargement     

Employer give a wider range of similar tasks for the employee to do. This is an example of...

• Job rotation
• Job enlargement
• Job enrichment

An important characteristic of a successful entrepreneur is that:

• they are always rich
• they are risk takers
• they are usually shy
• they want to avoid hard work

What benefit does drawing up a business plan bring for a new entrepreneur?

• it shows exactly how much money the firm will make
• it makes sure the bank will lend all the capital needed
• it means that the business start up has no risk of failure
• it helps in organising the resources needed for the new firm