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Which of the following set of four behaviours has Kenneth Thomas identified as ones that can build intrinsic rewards for their employees

A) leading for choice, leading for justice, leading for meaningfulness, and leading for progress
B) leading for choice, leading for competence, leading for meaningfulness, and leading for progress
C) leading for passion, leading for competence, leading for meaningfulness, and leading for progress
D) leading for choice, leading for competence, leading for meaningfulness, and leading for satisfaction

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SCENARIO 4-8 Alice Ann Jones is the new director of human resources for a small consulting firm and has been charged with developing a performance evaluation and reward system.Alice Ann recognizes the importance of performance evaluation and rewards on employee behaviour and asks for your opinion and advice. If Alice provides rewards that increase intrinsic motivation of the employees, she would be offering employees a sense of

A) choice, competence and conditioning
B) choice, meaningfulness and conditioning
C) competence, determination and progress
D) choice, competence and meaningfulness
E) determination, competence and meaningfulness

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As long as employees believe they are in control of the behaviours they offer in the workplace, deadlines and specific standards can be imposed externally.

The theory which asserts that motivation depends upon the strength of a tendency to act in a certain way, which in turn depends on the strength of an expectation that the act will be followed by a given outcome and on the attractiveness of that outcome to the individual, is called

SCENARIO 4-6 You graduated from college two years ago and began working at Hampstead Electronics.You have received good performance evaluations and a raise.You just found out that a recent college graduate with no experience has been hired at a higher salary than you are now making. Which theory will you probably use in evaluating how you regard this situation

SCENARIO 4-6 You graduated from college two years ago and began working at Hampstead Electronics.You have received good performance evaluations and a raise.You just found out that a recent college graduate with no experience has been hired at a higher salary than you are now making. Your referent comparison for equity theory is termed

In general, organizational citizenship behaviour is motivated more by extrinsic rewards, than intrinsic rewards.

Latin American managers have stronger belief that their employees are motivated by intrinsic factors.

An employee low in self-efficacy is likely to increase their effort when given negative feedback.

Jessica feels she received an appropriate salary increase this year, but does not believe that the company's methods for determining salary increases are fair.She believes there is a problem with the firm's

Tony was so concerned that his department's project be completed on time that he offered all of his employees a $100 bonus for each day that the project was completed ahead of schedule.This is an example of

SCENARIO 4-8 Alice Ann Jones is the new director of human resources for a small consulting firm and has been charged with developing a performance evaluation and reward system.Alice Ann recognizes the importance of performance evaluation and rewards on employee behaviour and asks for your opinion and advice. Alice Ann tells you that the firm pays on the basis of the productivity of each employee.Research on motivation would say this creates

Reinforcement theory allows managers to vary rewards and punishments based on

Within the framework of the equity theory, if an employee perceives iniquitous treatment and decides to work harder, what choice have they made

The premise that people learn how to behave to get something that they want or to avoid something that they don't want is called

Lilly was a strong employee who was committed to the work objectives of her department and to the goals of her company.Which of the following would likely also be applicable to her

Chao has a lot of internal drive.His overall goal in life is to "be all that he can be" in all aspects of his life.Which level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs is reflected in Tommy's attitude

Harry is motivated by salary increases, promotions and benefits packages.Thus, he is motivated by intrinsic rewards.

The concept that individuals with a high need for achievement prefer to work on tasks of moderate difficulty is consistent with

Operant conditioning assumes behaviour is influenced by the consequences of the behaviour.