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BUSN-1010 Conroy 10
Chapter 10
Question | Answer |
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Empowerment | Giving employees the authority and responsibility to make decisions to allow them more involvement in their jobs. |
Hawthorne Effect | The name given to a Harvard research group's conclusion that employees worked harder if they received added attention, if they thought managers cared about their welfare and that supervisors paid special attention to them. |
Intrinsic Reward | The satisfaction, such as a feeling of accomplishment, a person receives from performing the particular task itself. |
Job Enrichment | Building into a job such motivation factors as responsibility, achievement, recognition, stimulation work, and advancement. |
Management by Objectives (MBO) | A 4-step process in which managers and employees jointly set objectives, managers develop action plans and periodically review the employee's performance, and the manager makes a performance appraisal and rewards the Emylee according to results. |
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory | Proposes that people are motivated by five levels of needs, ranging from low to high: physiological, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualization. |
Motivation | The psychological processes that induce people to pursue goals. |
Scientific Management | A management theory that emphasized the scientific study of work methods to improve the productivity of individual workers. |