Chapter 6

Systematically rating the worth of jobs within an organization by measur-ing their required skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions.

The degree to which a job gives employees the freedom, independence, and discretion to sched-ule their work and de-termine the procedures used in completing it.

A reward system that encourages employees to buy company stock.

A team-based reward that calculates bonuses from the work unit’s cost savings and productivity improvement.

A reward system that gives employees the right to purchase company stock at a future date at a predetermined price.

A reward system that pays bonuses to employees on the basis of the previous year’s level of corporate profits.

The process of assigning tasks to a job, including the interdependency of those tasks with other jobs.

The result of division of labor in which work is subdivided into separate jobs assigned to different people

The practice of system-atically partitioning work into its smallest elements and standardizing tasks to achieve maximum efficiency.

Herzberg’s theory stating that employees are primarily motivated by growth and esteem needs, not by lower-level needs.

A job design model that relates the motivational properties of jobs to specific personal and organizational conse-quences of those properties.

The extent to which employees must use different skills and tal-ents to perform tasks within their jobs.

The degree to which a job requires completion of a whole or an identifi-able piece of work.

The degree to which a job has a substantial impact on the organiza-tion and/or larger society.

The practice of moving employees from one job to another

The practice of adding more tasks to an existing job.

The practice of giving employees more respon-sibility for scheduling, coordinating, and plan-ning their own work.

A psychological con-cept in which people experience more self-determination, meaning, competence, and impact regarding their role in the organization.

The process of influenc-ing oneself to establish the self-direction and self-motivation needed to perform a task.

The process of talking to ourselves about our own thoughts or actions.

The process of mentally practicing a task and visualizing its successful completion.