CH14 Practice Quiz (OB)

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

According to the job characteristics model, task significance is the degree to which ________.

A job affects the lives or work of other people

You notice that members of the janitorial staff are low skilled and are suffering from overroutinization of their work. They are most likely to be motivated by ________.

Job rotation

John is a design manager for a production company. He independently assigns teams, chooses projects, researches trends, and is able to work from home two to three days a week. He provides a status report to the design director once a month. Based on this description and as per the job characteristics model, it's safe to say that John's job is high in

Autonomy

Managers at Precision Technologies, a custom-machine shop in Indiana, train workers on all the company's equipment so they can move around as needed in response to incoming orders. Based on this information, which of the following methods is most likely being used by Precision Technologies?

Job Rotation

Job rotation is a variation of:

Job Enlargement

The degree to which a job entails completion of a whole task or complete sequence of tasks is:

Task Identity

Job sharing expands jobs by increasing the degree to which the worker controls the planning, execution, and evaluation of the work.

False