Motivation at work

Which of these is an advantage to an employer of motivating its employees

• Employers will need to recruit more regularly

• The business will access new technologies

• Employees will be more productive

• Employees will take more holidays

Tick three incentives that are financial or monetary rewards

• Profit sharing

• Empowerment

• Commission

• Piece work

• Team work

Rewards (with a financial value) that you receive from work but are not paid in money

• Job rotation

• Autonomy

• Fringe benefits

• Praise

Which of the following is an example of a fringe benefit?

• Salary

• Commission

• Company Car

• Wages

What can affect staff motivation?

• Work environment

• Managers

• Both work environment and managers

What is meant by job enrichment?

• It involves workers swapping around and doing each task for only a limited time and then changing around again

• It is where extra tasks of a similar level of work are added to a worker's job description

• It involves looking at job specifications and adding tasks that require more skill and responsibility

____________ refers to managers passing on authority to team members to carry out a task

• Relegation

• Delegation

• Renumeration

• Motivation

___________ refers to increasing the variety of tasks that a job function has

• Job encroachment

• Job enlargement

• Job enrichment

• Job rotation

___________ are the financial rewards paid in addition to salaries, e.g. free uniforms, meals, company car etc.

• Commissions

• Fringe benefits

• Profit-related pay

• Wages

____________ refers to increasing the number of tasks that an employee performs

• Job security

• Job empowerment

• Job enlargement

• Job rotation