A Short Business Management Test Quiz Part- IV

When employees are paid a time rate, there is no direct and visible relationship between effort and reward, but when they are paid directly for effort, the assumption is that they will work harder.

Managers do not have to be aware of the importance of social need satisfaction in the workplace as it is not part of the job description.

An American psychologist developed a theory that was the first comprehensive attempt to classify individual needs, what was his name?

This theory states that a person calculates the value of a certain benefit, or set of linked benefits, and then estimates the likelihood of acquiring them through his or her own efforts.

Vroom developed an expectancy equation, that is, a way in which motivation could actually be assessed and measured, which in its simplest form is:   ?   = E x V

Task identity is the degree to which the job is perceived to have a meaningful impact on others, either internal or external to the organisation.

The essential aim of Taylorism was to design jobs to enable the maximum technical division of labour through job simplification. 

While                is normally associated with the simple notion of meeting social needs at work, his interests were much broader than this. He was therefore concerned that employees should satisfy a whole range of needs in the work area which he considered would be beneficial to the cohesion and stability of society generally.

Herzberg developed his influential ‘two-factor’ theory of motivation which are?

In order to increase motivation and performance , managers must re-design those jobs where the motivating potential score (MPS) is high.