Job Characteristics
What is Job design?
Job design suggests that the way elements in a job are organized can influence employee effort, and the job characteristics model, discussed next can serve as a framework to identify opportunities for changes to those elements.
The periodic shifting of an employee from one task to another with similar skill requirements at the same organizational level is defined as ________.
Job Rotation
________ is nota benefit of flextime.
Decreased work/life balance
________ is a participative process that uses employees' input to increase their commitment to the organization's success.
Employee involvement
Internal equity refers to the ________.
worth of the job to the organization
What is the Job Characteristics Model (JCM)?
The Job Characteristics Model (JCM) proposed that any job may be described by five core job dimensions-Skill variety, Task identity, Task significance, Autonomy, Feedback.
What is Job Enrichment?
In job enrichment, high-level responsibilities are added to the job to increase a sense of purpose, direction, and meaning and increase intrinsic motivation.
An arrangement that allows two or more individuals to split a traditional 40-hour-a-week job is called ________.
Job sharing
What is the distinct characteristic of participative management programs?
Joint decision making
The external competitiveness of an organization's pay relative to elsewhere in the industry is measured by its ________.
external equity
Which dimensions of the job characteristics model (JCM) combine to create meaningful work?
Skill variety, task identity, and task significance
A prerequisite condition for job rotation is the ________.
Presence of employees with similar skill sets and requirements
The option of working at home at least two days a week on a computer linked to the employer's office is termed as ________.
Telecommuting
The two major forms of employee involvement are participative management and ________.
Representative participation
________ bases a portion of an employee's pay on some individual and/or organizational measure of performance.
Variable-pay program
According to the job characteristics model, task significance is the degree to which ________.
A job requires a variety of different activities
________ has a focus on prosocial motivation and is especially salient for organizations with corporate social responsibility.
Relational job design
For management, a major downside of telecommuting is ________.
Decreased collaboration
________ are groups of nominated or elected employees who must be consulted when management makes decisions about employees.
Works councils
The ________ pay plan has long been popular as a means of compensating production workers by paying a fixed sum for each unit of production completed.
piece-rate
According to the job characteristics model, ________ indicates the degree to which carrying out work activities generates direct and clear information about your own performance.
Feedback
Personal contacts with beneficiaries is a required component of relational job design.
True or False
False
What tends to be a major downside of employees telecommuting for managers in an organization?
Reduced innovation
Representative participation is characterized by ________.
redistribution of power within an organization
Individualized rewards that allow each employee to choose the compensation package that best satisfies his or her current needs and situation are called ________.
flexible benefits plans