Motivation
Job Analysis & Design
Compensation & Benefits
Performance Appraisal & Feedback
Groups, Teams, & Leadership
100

This type of motivation is caused by the desire to attain specific outcomes.

What is extrinsic motivation?

100
The process by which a job is studied to determine the activities it includes, its relative importance, the qualifications necessary to perform it, and the conditions under which it is performed.

What is job analysis?

100

This describes when new hires are paid more than tenured ones.

What is pay inversion?

100

Quality, Quantity, Timeliness, Cost Effectiveness, Need for Supervision, and Interpersonal Impact

What are the six broad criteria to consider when evaluating performance?

100

This is the third phase of Tuckman's group development model in which participants are more committed to one another and the group's goal.

What is norming?

200

According to this theory of motivation, once a lower-level need it satisfied, it will cease to be motivating.

What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs or What is ERG Theory?

200

This job characteristic can be increased with job enlargement.

What is skill variety?

200

This method of job evaluation compares job descriptions to grade descriptions.

What is job classification?

200

This type of performance appraisal challenge reflects people's tendency to view things subjectively through their own biases.

What is the idiosyncratic rater effect?

200

This phenomenon describes why people decrease their individual effort as the group size increases.

What is social loafing?

300

This theory describes when consideration of one's perceived input/output ratio in comparison to that of another leads to demotivation.

What is equity theory?

300

This process enables employees to shape the meaning of their own work.

What is job crafting?
300

Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, Family and Medical Leave Act, Affordable Care Act,  COBRA, and Worker's Compensation

What are mandatory benefits?

300

This describes when employees rate everyone a 5 or 6 on a 1 to 7 rating scale.

What is range restriction?

300

This category of leadership theories suggests that the optimal leadership style depends on the context.

What are contingency theories?

400

The component of expectancy theory that describes whether the outcomes are desirable.

What is valence?

400

This element of the job characteristics model can influence the strength of the relationship between core job characteristics and motivation.

What are knowledge and skill, growth need strength, OR context satisfaction?

400

A disadvantage of this job evaluation method is that it is time consuming.

What is the point factor method?

400

The portion of a job performance measure that does not actually correspond to job performance.

What is contamination?

400

This element of Hackman's model of team effectiveness describes when teams have access to the tools, resources, information, and incentives required to excel.

What is a supportive context?

500

This motivation theory has been linked with an increase in unethical behavior.

What is goal-setting theory?

500

Experienced meaningfulness of work, experienced responsibility for outcomes of the work, and knowledge of the results of work activities

What are critical psychological states of the job characteristics model?
500

This measure indicates how far an employee's pay is from the market midpoint.

What is the compa ratio?

500

The basis for comparison used when performance appraisal is intended for developmental purposes.

What is an absolute standard?

500

This model of leadership assumes that follower readiness drives the optimal leadership style.

What is Hersey & Blanchard's situational leadership model?