HRM Quiz #2

Employees are paid an hourly rate, or for a number of hours per week. It is possible that overtime rates of pay are used too.

• Profit-Related

  Pay

• Employee

  Share-Ownership

  Schemes

• Fringe

  Payments

  (Perks)

• Wages

________ involves giving individuals access to resources and information to do their jobs and the power to make decisions.

• Empowerment

• Volunteer

• Empathy

• Knowledge

Employees are paid by results, for example, a fat fee or a percentage for each item sold.

• Wages

• Salary

• Commission

• Profit-related pay

________ challenges traditional motivational models, stating they're ineffective in today's complex work environments, stifling creativity

• Frederick Winslow Taylor

• Daniel Pink

• John Adams

• Abraham Maslow

________ a sense that their work betters their own lives and the world.

• Mastery

• Innovation

• Creativity

• Purpose

________ opportunities that allow employees to learn, innovate, and create new things.

• Mastery

• Autonomy

• Purpose

• Flexibility

________ an environment that permits employees to shape their own lives. As much as possible, businesses should give employees freedom in when they work (time), how they do their jobs (technique), who they work with (team), and what they do (task).

• Autonomy

• Innovation

• Purpose

• Mastery

________ is a system where a company is divided into geographical areas, each managed independently to address local market needs.

• Organizational structure by product

• Organizational structure by region

• Organizational structure by function

• Organizational structure by hierarchy

________ groups employees based on specialized roles or tasks, such as marketing, finance, and production.

• Organizational structure by product

• Organizational structure by region

• Flat organizational structure

• Organizational structure by function

________ arranges employees in levels of authority, with each level subordinate to the one above.

• Organizational structure by function

• Organizational structure by product

• Organizational structure by hierarchy

• Organizational structure by region