1) What can you expect as a result of your job design strategy? Check all that a

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1) What can you expect as a result of your job design strategy? Check all that apply.

(A) Increased job variety (B) Increased job challenge (C) Increased long-term employee satisfaction (D) Increased worker autonomy

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1) Teachers who believe that they can change the world one child at a time are high on this dimension.

(A) Feedback (B) Skill variety (C) Task identity (D) Task significance

2) The student who is always eager to learn is high on this dimension, whereas the person who is content with fewer challenges in life is probably low.

(A) Task identity (B) Task significance (C) Growth-need strength (D) Skill variety

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1) Hackman and Oldham's job characteristics model is similar to the job design strategy of _____________.

(A) job enrichment (B) job simplification (C) job enlargement

2) The job characteristics model is most effective in economically ____________ countries.

(A) disadvantaged (B) advantaged

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1) Carla has just received her annual performance review. Because Carla had the highest productivity of anyone in her department, she will get the largest raise this year.

(A) Pay for performance (B) Pay for knowledge (C) Gain sharing (D) Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)

2) At ACME Fireworks, all of the employees in the company get a raise when company profits are 10% more than the profits from the preceding year.

(A) Pay for knowledge (B) Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) (C) Lump-sum bonuses (D) Gain sharing

3) Zach is a salesperson at a large medical supply company. The company wants Zach to learn to manage multiple departments, so it offers to pay his tuition while he earns an MBA at Stanford University and give him a $20,000 a year raise once he gets his degree.

(A) Pay for performance (B) Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) (C) Gain sharing (D) Pay for knowledge

4) Cayleigh is a single mother who runs a medicine that bags lettuce for a large argicultural conglomerate. Cayleigh comes to work everyday at 10am and gets off at 6pm. Her coworker, Renita, has dance lessons at 5pm, so she comes to work at 8am and gets off at 4pm. Both women are satisfied with their schedules and hare happy that their company allows them to choose which hours they work.

(A) Lifestyle awards (B) Pay for knowledge (C) Team-based compensation (D) Flexible work schedule

Explanation / Answer

Job design is one of the core functions of human resource management. Under this function, content and methodological framework of jobs are designed in such a way that the organizational goals can be fulfilled thereby fulfilling and satisfying the need of job holders. This in turn help in identifying and analyzing the job natures with respect to the personality and behavior of job holder.

Job design is important and it aims in designing the job that can help the companies to improve on job satisfaction level, improving quality of work, help in minimizing the employee’s problems. This in turn leads to increase the job challenge as number of new jobs might arise due to different job designs. Final objective of job designing is to increase the motivational level of the employees and ensuring employee engagement at workplace.

Thus, the correct options should be C and D.

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