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Organizational Behavior- Ch6
Chapt 6
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Business
Undergraduate 3
03/15/2010

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autonomy
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The degree to which a job gives employees the freedom, independence, and discretion to schedule their work and determine the procedures used in completing it.
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balanced scorecard (BSC)
Definition
A reward system that pays bonuses to executives for improved measurements on a composite of financial, customer, internal process, and employee factors.
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employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs)
Definition
A reward system that encourages employees to buy stock in the company.
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empowerment
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A psychological concept in which people experience more self-determination, meaning, competence, and impact regarding their role in the organization.
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gainsharing plans
Definition
Reward systems that reward team members for reducing costs and increasing labor efficiency in their work process.
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job characteristics model
Definition
A job design model that relates the motivational properties of jobs to specific personal and organizational consequences of those properties.
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job design
Definition
The process of assigning tasks to a job, including the interdependency of those tasks with other jobs.
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job enlargement
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Increasing the number of tasks employees perform within their job.
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job enrichment
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Employees are given more responsibility for scheduling, coordinating, and planning their own work.
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job evaluation
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Systematically evaluating the worth of jobs within an organization by measuring their required skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions. Job evaluation results create a hierarchy of job worth.
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job rotation
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The practice of moving employees from one job to another.
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job specialization
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The result of division of labor in which each job includes a subset of the tasks required to complete the product or service.
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mental imagery
Definition
Mentally practicing a task and visualizing its successful completion.
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motivator–hygiene theory
Definition
Herzberg’s theory stating that employees are primarily motivated by growth and esteem needs, not by lower-level needs.
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profit sharing plans
Definition
Reward systems that pay bonuses to employees based on the previous year’s level of corporate profits.
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scientific management
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Involves systematically partitioning work into its smallest elements and standardizing tasks to achieve maximum efficiency.
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self-leadership
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The process of influencing oneself to establish the self direction and self-motivation needed to perform a task.
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self-talk
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Talking to ourselves about our own thoughts or actions for the purpose of increasing our self-efficacy and navigating through decisions in a future event.
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skill variety
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The extent to which employees must use different skills and talents to perform tasks within their job.
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stock options
Definition
A reward system that gives employees the right to purchase company stock at a future date at a predetermined price.
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task identity
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The degree to which a job requires completion of a whole or an identifiable piece of work.
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task significance
Definition
The degree to which the job has a substantial impact on the organization and/or larger society.
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