Vocabulary for HRM

The term that involves giving workers more variety in what they do is

• job empowerment

• job enrichment

• job enlargement

• differentiated piecework

As a business grows, managers need to __________ because they are not able to effectively control all aspects of the organization.

Delegation is a form of

• job enlargement

• job empowerment

• financial reward system

Maslow believed that these aspects needed to be fulfilled in order. What is the correct order?

Outsourcing is obtaining goods or services from another organization.

• true

• false

When using a flat organization chart

• managers have a wider span of control

• teams have more cohesiveness because they are smaller

• there are more opportunities to be promoted

• communication is quicker

An organizational chart shows which important features of a business?

• functional departments

• span of control

• chain of command

• All of the above

_______________ is an execution of tasks that are governed by official administrative and formal rules of an organization.

In Adams theory of equity, equity is based on the ratio of __________ and ____________.

A form of financial motivation, this method links pay to the level of profits in the organization.

• piece rate system

• profit related pay

• performance related pay

• employee share ownership