OB-MOTIVATION & ITS APPLICATION

________ is defined as the processes that account for an individual's intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal.

• A) Leadership

• B) Management

• C) Learning

• E) Motivation

The ________ dimension of motivation measures how long a person can maintain effort.

• A) direction

• B) persistence

• C) intensity

• E) experience

The NGO Club that you go to every Sunday is made up of people who have very different lifestyles and are at different stages in their life. Joanna is a 23-year-old single parent who works for minimum wage and shifts from motel to motel for accommodation. Josephine is a single, 45-year-old woman who earns a decent salary and has few interests and friends outside her office. Jonathan is 60 years old, extremely wealthy, has a loving family, and enjoys his work. You have decided to apply Maslow's hierarchy of needs to determine what motivates each of these individuals.

Which of the following needs would most likely motivate Joanna?

• A) social

• B) esteem

• C) physiological

• D) self-actualization

The NGO Club that you go to every Sunday is made up of people who have very different lifestyles and are at different stages in their life. Joanna is a 23-year-old single parent who works for minimum wage and shifts from motel to motel for accommodation. Josephine is a single, 45-year-old woman who earns a decent salary and has few interests and friends outside her office. Jonathan is 60 years old, extremely wealthy, has a loving family, and enjoys his work. You have decided to apply Maslow's hierarchy of needs to determine what motivates each of these individuals.

Which of the following needs would most likely motivate Josephine?

• A) social-belongingness

• B) esteem

• C) physiological

• D) self-actualization

The NGO Club that you go to every Sunday is made up of people who have very different lifestyles and are at different stages in their life. Joanna is a 23-year-old single parent who works for minimum wage and shifts from motel to motel for accommodation. Josephine is a single, 45-year-old woman who earns a decent salary and has few interests and friends outside her office. Jonathan is 60 years old, extremely wealthy, has a loving family, and enjoys his work. You have decided to apply Maslow's hierarchy of needs to determine what motivates each of these individuals.

Which of the following needs would most motivate Jonathan?

• A) social-belongingness

• B) esteem

• C) physiological

• D) self-actualization

Job design is defined as the ________.

• A) degree to which the job rewards competence

• B) way the elements in a job are organized

• C) degree to which the job contributes to profit margins

• E) way the job is evaluated in terms of its relative worth to other jobs

With reference to the job characteristics model, which of the following defines skill variety?

• A) the degree to which a job requires completion of a whole and identifiable piece of work

• B) the degree to which work activities generate direct and clear information about performance

• D) the degree to which a job has an impact on the lives or work of other people

• E) the degree to which a job requires a variety of different activities tapping different abilities

With reference to the job characteristics model, which of the following defines task identity?

• A) the degree to which a job requires completion of a whole and identifiable piece of work

• B) the degree to which work activities generate direct and clear information about performance

• C) the degree to which a job provides the worker freedom in scheduling and procedure

• D) the degree to which a job has an impact on the lives or work of other people

Adam Sears is an assembly line employee with Swenson Motors. Though Adam is popular among his supervisors and colleagues, Adam experiences low morale and lack of motivation. He feels frustrated that his job is restricted to fixing nuts and bolts on the car parts. He fears that he has no chances of advancing in his career as he cannot completely assemble a car. Which of the following is true with regard to Adam?

• A) Adam's job has high task complexity

• B) Adam's job has a high span of control

• D) Adam's job has low task identity.

• E) Adam's job has high task significance

Samantha Barnes is an emergency medical technician. Recently, during an emergency call, she was able to resuscitate a man who had a cardiac arrest. Subsequently, she spent some time calming the 12-year-old daughter of the patient and looked after her until the rest of the patient's family arrived at the hospital. Based on this description, it can be concluded that Samantha's job is high in ________.

• A) task identity

• B) feedback

• C) extrinsic rewards

• D) task significance