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WorksheetsTheories of Motivation
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 12mins
The need of individuals for food, clothing, shelter, and others that will make her/him survive.
Security Need
Social Need
Physiological Need
Self-Esteem Need
Social Needs
Recognition, status
Loving, affection, belongingness
Shelter (safety from danger)
Achievement self-fulfillment
Self-Esteem Needs
Recognition, status
Loving, affection, belongingness
Shelter (safety from danger)
food, water, air, sleep
Security Needs
Recognition, status
Loving, affection, belongingness
Shelter (safety from danger)
food, water, air, sleep
Physiological Needs
Recognition, status
Loving, affection, belongingness
Shelter (safety from danger)
food, water, air, sleep
This theory states that the best way to motivate someone is to organize the job so that doing it provides the feedback and challenge that help satisfy the person's "higher level" needs for things like accomplishment and recognition.
Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Frederick Herzberg’s Theory
Victor Vrooms Expectancy Theory
B.F. Skinners Modification and Reinforcement
This theory classified people's need into five types; physiological needs, security, self-esteem, and self-actualization.
Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Frederick Herzberg’s Theory
Victor Vrooms Expectancy Theory
B.F. Skinners Modification and Reinforcement
Money, admiration and recognition are
Intrinsic rewards
Extrinsic rewards
Motivators
Hygienes
The presence of a hygiene will
motivate employees to do their best
bring about job satisfaction
result in job dis-satisfaction
leave the worker neither satisfied nor dis-satisfied
A worker in a local business is paid very well. However, he is not satisfied with his job as there is limited room for advancement and there is limited recognition. This may due to
his physiological needs are not being satisfied
there is an absence of motivator factors
there is an absence of hygiene factors
all his needs are already fulfilled
Which of the following is NOT an example of a motivator according to the Two Factor Theory?
recognition of work well done
the nature of the job
additional responsibility
safety in the workplace
The absence of a hygiene factor will
motivate employees to do their best
bring about job satisfaction
result in job dis-satisfaction
leave the worker neither satisfied nor dis-satisfied
Taylor's views on worker motivation suggested that:
workers will work harder when they have clean and hygiene conditions
workers will work harder when they have a job contract
workers will work harder when they are recognised
workers will work harder when they are paid more
One of the best definition of 'piece rate' of pay is:
workers are paid according to the duration of their work
workers are paid according to the quantity of their work
workers are paid according to the quality of their work
workers are paid when they do not make any pieces of output
In this theory, others are motivated by coercion
Laissez-faire
Servant-Leader
Authoritarian
Interactional
This theory provides little or no direction
Laissez-faire
Transformational
Transactional
Servant-Leader
It involves assessing the nature of the task and the follower's motivation or readiness to learn and using that to determine the particular style the leader should use
Situational
Transactional
Transformational
Democratic
Which type of reward is paid to the employee in addition to their salary, such as a company car, housing allowance or free meals?
Fringe benefits
Wages (piece work)
Commission
Employee share-ownership scheme
Which of the following is NOT a need as identified by Maslow?
Esteem
Social
Hygiene
Self-actualisation
A health insurance fund would primarily be catering to which need of the consumer according to Maslow:
Physiological
Safety
Belongingness
Self-actualisation
Which management theory runs organizations on the basis of knowledge, fairness and logical rules
Scientific Management Theory
Bureaucratic Management Theory
Administrative Management Theory
This study is used to simplify work.
Time Study
Motion Study
Work Study
Who proposed the Illumination Experiment?
George Gregory Mayo
George Elton Mayo
George Mc Mayo
George Van Mayo
