Knowledge Check: The Individual in the Organization

__________ is the driving factor for actions, willingness, and goals.

• Incentive

• Inspiration

• Motivation

• Ambition

Select all that apply to a manager's purpose of knowing employee's drives and needs.

• To channel employee's behavior toward task performance

• To know employee's life priorities

• To motivate the employee

• To maintain good relationship

According to David C. McClelland of Harvard University, there are motivational drives that were developed as a product of our culture and these are:

• Power

• Achievement

• Affiliation

• Association

A type of learning wherein an employee learns by observing the actions of others and the consequences is called:

• Cordial Learning

• Social/Vicarious Learning

• Introvert Learning

• General Learning

Occurs when behavior is accompanied by removal of an unfavorable consequence.

• Negative Reinforcement

• Punishment

• Alternative Reinforcement

• Unfavorable Reinforcement

These are the Schedules of Reinforcement

• Continuous Reinforcement

• Perpetual Reinforcement

• Partial Reinforcement

• Constant Reinforcement

Content theories argue that internal needs lead to a behavior while Organizational Behavior Modification or OB Mod states that

• negative consequences tend to determine the behavior which gives more control and responsibility to managers

• external consequences tend to determine the behavior which gives more control and responsibility to managers

• external consequences tend to determine the need which gives more control and responsibility to managers

• positive consequences tend to determine the behavior which gives more control and responsibility to managers

Money as a means of rewarding employees: Not just it has an ________ _____ as a medium of exchange for the allocation of economic resources, but it also has ______ _____. It is somehow a status symbol.

• economic value; community value

• social value; economic value

• community value; social value

• economic value; social value

Defined as the process of evaluating the performance of employees, sharing that information with them, and searching for ways to improve their performance

• Organizational Performance

• Performance Bonus

• Performance Appraisal

• Over-all Performance

How do you feel today?

(You can select more than one answer.)

• Excited :D

• Drained :(

• Contented ;)

• Meh :/

• Hungry >_<