Title: Strategies for Motivating Employees
Course: Demo 1

Q: ________ refers to expanding the tasks performed by employees to add more variety.
- job enrichment
- job rotation
- job enlargement
A: job enlargement

Q: One of the most influential attempts to design jobs to increase motivational properties is the ________.
- job rotation model
- job enrichment model
- job characteristics model
A: job characteristics model

Q: What methods are used by managers to put motivational theory into practice?
- job characteristic models
- Goal-setting
- performance appraisals
A: job characteristic models; Goal-setting

Q: Job rotation has a number of advantages when managers implement it in organizations. It is an effective way for:
- employees to gain new skills because of cross-training in new tasks
- the company to increase the overall skill level of their employees
- knowledge to be specialized and siloed within departments
A: employees to gain new skills because of cross-training in new tasks; the company to increase the overall skill level of their employees

Q: A social media company has a process where individuals can choose to make changes to their work responsibilities, even dramatic changes, if they create or discover more efficient ways to work. This is an example of a company using ________.
- job rotation
- job enlargement
- job enrichment
A: job enrichment

Q: If a manager wants to use the job characteristic model to motivate a particular employee to see how their job affects other people’s work, health, or well-being, the following characteristic(s) can be looked at:
- core job characteristics of skill variety
- core job characteristics of autonomy
- core job characteristics of task significance
A: core job characteristics of task significance

Q: Goal setting theory is one of the most influential and practical theories. There is strong evidence that setting goals is related to:
- salary increase
- better physical health
- performance improvements
A: performance improvements

Q: Merely the presence of a goal is not motivation enough. According to the goal setting theory, a goal must be SMART. This stands for:
- specific, measurable, accountable, realistic, and timely
- specific, measurable, accountable, recognized, and timely
- specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely
A: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and timely

Q: Besides providing direction, goals in business motivate because they:
- urge people to think outside the box and rethink how they are working
- energize people and tell them not to stop until they reach a specified end point
- provide a challenge
A: urge people to think outside the box and rethink how they are working; energize people and tell them not to stop until they reach a specified end point; provide a challenge

Q: Alana manages an IT department. She notices that her highly skilled workers seem to be getting bored. She decides it is time to motivate her team, so she sets a goal to improve the company’s network speed without consulting them. She decides to reward them with a bowling night when they achieve the goal. According to goal setting theory, what problem is Alana likely to run into with her approach?
- Without a stated timeline or deadline, the team won’t feel urgency and momentum will stall.
- Without a specific measure to attain their goal, the team will lack focus and motivation.
- Without stronger supervision of how to achieve the goal, workers won’t know how to get started
A: Without a stated timeline or deadline, the team won’t feel urgency and momentum will stall.; Without a specific measure to attain their goal, the team will lack focus and motivation.