theorists
Theorist that created the hierarchy of needs.
Who is Abraham Maslow?
What is motivation?
Increasing the flexibility of employees and the variety of work they do by switching from one job to another.
What is job rotation?
Annual income paid on a monthly basis.
What is a salary?
Concluded that motivating and hygiene factors result in either job satisfaction or dissatisfaction.
What is Hertzberg's two-factor theory?
Aspects of a workers job that have the potential to cause dissatisfaction such as pay, working conditions, status, and over supervision by managers.
What is hygiene factors?
Attempting to increase a scope of a job by broadening or deepening the task undertaken.
What is job enlargement?
A payment made in addition to the contracted wage or salary.
What is a bonus?
What is Vroom's expectancy theory?
Gains from motivated staff. (List one of the five)
What is low labor turnover, high productivity, makes suggestion for improvements, prepared to accept responsibility, and low absenteeism?
Production is organized so that groups of workers undertake complete units of work.
What is team-working?
A payment to a sales person for each sale made.
What is commission?
Theorized that other motivational factors can outweigh the working conditions.
What is the Hawthorne effect?
Voluntary groups of workers who meet regularly to discuss work-related issues.
What is a quality circle?
Involves the restructure of a job to make a job more interesting and satisfying.
What is job redesign?
Payment to a worker made for each period of time worked.
A person with the strong motivational need for achievement seek realistic and challenging goals for job advancement.
What is the achievement motivation theory?
Benefits given separate from pay by an employer to some or all employees.
What is fringe benefits?
Reduction of direct supervision as workers take responsibility for their own work and are allowed some degree of decision-making authority.
What is job enrichment?
What is piece rate?