Citrus College - MANAGE 102

Chapter 11 Self Assessment: What Do You Need?

1)Research suggests that people just care about getting a paycheck out of their jobs.

2. What people want out of their jobs is as varied as the jobs themselves.
3. Jane is extremely organized and efficient in her job as an assistant. She is so effective that she is offered a promotion to management, but she turns it down flatly, saying that she has no interest in moving up the ladder, that she is happy doing what she does because of the people she works with. What she needs from work is:

Chapter 11: Post-Quiz

1.                 is concerned with the choices people make in deciding where to put forth effort in their jobs.

2.                = Motivation x Ability x Situational constraints.

3.                 is a theory that states that people will be motivated when they perceive that they

4.                in equity theory, are the contributions employees make to the organization.

5. Which following is the perceived relationship between performance and rewards?

6.                 is a feeling of intrinsic motivation, in which workers perceive their work to have meaning and perceive themselves to be competent.

7.                 theory argues that behavior is a function of its consequences, that behaviors followed by positive consequences will occur more frequently, and that behaviors followed by negative consequences, or not followed by positive consequences, will occur less frequently.

8.                 are cause-and-effect relationships between the performance of specific behaviors and specific consequences.

9.                are a targets, objectives, or results that someone tries to accomplish.

10.                is the extent to which people consciously understand and agree to goals.

Chapter 11: Pre-Quiz

1.                is the set of forces that initiates, directs, and makes people persist in their efforts to accomplish a goal.

2.                 is the physical or psychological requirements that must be met to ensure survival and well-being.

3. The basic components of equity theory include all of the following EXCEPT:

4.              is another way people try to restore equity, including asking for a raise or pointing out the inequity to the boss and hoping that she takes care of it.

5.                is the perceived relationship between effort and performance.

6.                = Valance x Expectancy x Instrumentality.

7.               are rules that specify which behaviors will be reinforced, which consequences will follow those behaviors, and the schedule by which those consequences will be delivered.

8.                  is a type reinforcement that weakens behavior by following behaviors with undesirable consequences.

9.                 theory suggests that people will be motivated to the extent to which they accept specific, challenging goals and receive feedback that indicates their progress toward goal achievement.

10.                is the extent to which a goal is challenging to accomplish.

11. Do you think some kind of reward would be appropriate to motivate Jennie? If so, what should it be?

12. Which of the following sentences should I use to increase Jennie’s instrumentality?

13.Which of the following sentences should I use to increase Jennie’s expectancy?