MGTA01H3 Chapter 10: MGTA03 – Chapter 10

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Motivation is the internal process that energizes, directs, and sustains our behaviour; it is the personal force that causes us to behave in a particular way. Morale is a worker"s feelings towards his or her job and superiors and toward the firm itself. Believes that workers are motivated only by money. For the most part, classical theory is wrong! Principles of scientific management (1911) a book by fredrick w. taylor. If classical theory is correct, paying them more prompts them to produce more. By breaking jobs into many simple separate tasks, the business can remove inefficiencies, reduce waste, and increase productivity. Time-and-motion studies job analysis specialization repetition. Piece-rate system pay workers for their output (e. g. for every 12 units produced) Productivity does increase in short-term, but people are not machines: boring, repetitive jobs lead to alienation, disaffection, and absenteeism. In 1925 a group of harvard students researched to determine the best environment to increase productivity.

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According to the principles of scientific management, the best way to improve productivity is to:

a) establish open two-way communications among all of the organization's employees and managers.

b) use time-motion studies to find the best method of doing each job, then teach those methods to employees.

c) use job rotation and job enlargement to make work more interesting and challenging.

d) give employees greater recognition for their efforts.

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A central characteristic of "management by objectives" is that:

A goals are set by top management and followed without question by others within the organization.

B. employees are given complete freedom to set their own goals as long as they are consistent with broad guidelines established by top management.

C. goals are set through a process involving all members of the organization.

D. it assumes that management must motivate employees since employees are incapable of motivating themselves.

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Maslow was mainly concerned with explaining how:

A. jobs could be broken down into very simple tasks that could be performed by unskilled workers.

B. human motivation was related to a hierarchy of needs.

C. managerial assumptions about workers affected their style of management.

D. to achieve open two-way communication within an organization