Motivating by job Design: the job characteristics Model
Employee Involvement
Using Rewards to Motivate Employees
Alternative Work Arrangements
Show Me The Money
100
This model proposed by Hackman and Oldham proposes that any job can be described in terms of five core job dimensions.
What is the Job Characteristics Model? (JCM)
100
This participative process uses the input of employees to increase their commitment to the organization’s success.
What is employee involvement?
100
These programs range from a spontaneous and private “thank you” to widely publicized formal programs in which specific types of behavior are encouraged.
What are Employee Recognition Programs?
100
This alternative work arrangement allows employees some discretion over when they arrive at work and when they leave.
What is Flextime?
100
You will use this as the base for the Final presentation/paper.
What is Google Sites or Facebook
200
These are the five-core job dimensions of the Job Characteristics Model (JCM)
What is Skill variety, Task Identity, Task significance, Autonomy, and Feedback?
200
The distinct characteristic common to these types of programs is the use of joint decision-making.
What is Participative Management?
200
Piece-rate plans, merit-based pay, bonuses, profit-sharing, gain sharing, and employee stock ownership plans are all forms of this type of program.
What are variable-pay programs?
200
This is when employees do their work at home at least 2 days a week on a computer that is linked to their office.
What is Telecommuting?
200
Some companies offer this type of plan which allows employees to put together a package of benefits tailored to their own needs.
What are Flexible Benefits?
300
This is the periodic shifting of an employee from one task to another.
What is job rotation?
300
These groups of nominated or elected employees must be consulted when management makes decisions involving personnel.
What are works councils?
300
This type of pay is when an employee gets no base salary and is paid only for what he or she produces.
What is Piece-Rate Pay?
300
This alternative work arrangement allows two or more individuals to split a traditional 40-hour-a-week job.
What is Job Sharing?
300
Used as an alternative to Job-Based pay, this pay program sets pay levels according to how many different jobs the employee can do.
What is Skill-Based Pay?
400
This type of job design involves giving a job more diversity by increasing the number of variety and tasks it requires.
What is Job Enlargement?
400
These employees sit on a company’s board of directors and represent the interests of the firm’s employees.
What are board representatives?
400
This reward pays employees for recent performance rather than historical performance.
What are Bonuses?
400
The benefits of this alternative work arrangement include reduced absenteeism, increased productivity, increased autonomy and employee satisfaction.
What is Flextime?
400
The best instructor for management 302 “Organizational Behavior” here at CSUSB.
Who is Dr. Gary W. Lawson
500
This job design can create disruption and cause members of the work group have to adjust to a new employee.
What is job rotation?
500
This work group of employees and supervisors meet regularly to discuss problems, recommend solutions, and take corrective actions.
What is a quality circle?
500
This pay plan provides increases to employees base salary based on their annual performance evaluation.
What is a Merit Pay Plan?
500
Professionals who spend the majority of their time on computers or the telephone are natural candidates for this alternative work arrangement.
What is Telecommuting?
500
The final test will be done online at home after the last regular class. You will find this link on this social network.