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What is the primary difference between job crafting and relational job design?
What is the primary difference between job crafting and relational job design?
Which of the following is NOT a component of job crafting?
Which of the following is NOT a component of job crafting?
What is a primary drawback of pay-for-performance plans, according to the text?
What is a primary drawback of pay-for-performance plans, according to the text?
Which of the following is NOT an example of an alternative work schedule?
Which of the following is NOT an example of an alternative work schedule?
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What is the primary difference between perfect rationality and bounded rationality in decision-making?
What is the primary difference between perfect rationality and bounded rationality in decision-making?
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Which cognitive bias is most closely related to the idea that people are more likely to seek out information that confirms their existing beliefs?
Which cognitive bias is most closely related to the idea that people are more likely to seek out information that confirms their existing beliefs?
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What is the "sunk cost fallacy"?
What is the "sunk cost fallacy"?
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What is a potential consequence of emotional influences on decision-making?
What is a potential consequence of emotional influences on decision-making?
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Which of the following is NOT a major area of difficulty in the decision-making process?
Which of the following is NOT a major area of difficulty in the decision-making process?
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Which of the following best describes the "anchoring effect"?
Which of the following best describes the "anchoring effect"?
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Which of the following is NOT a key concept within the Reinforcement Theory of Motivation?
Which of the following is NOT a key concept within the Reinforcement Theory of Motivation?
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What strategy within the Reinforcement Theory involves removing an unpleasant stimulus to encourage a desired behavior?
What strategy within the Reinforcement Theory involves removing an unpleasant stimulus to encourage a desired behavior?
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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a high-scope job according to the Job Design concept?
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a high-scope job according to the Job Design concept?
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Which organizational learning program focuses on changing employee behavior through a structured process of defining target behaviors, setting goals, and monitoring progress?
Which organizational learning program focuses on changing employee behavior through a structured process of defining target behaviors, setting goals, and monitoring progress?
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Which of the following is a key difference between Job Enlargement and Job Enrichment?
Which of the following is a key difference between Job Enlargement and Job Enrichment?
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What is Job Involvement as defined in the context of Job Design?
What is Job Involvement as defined in the context of Job Design?
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Which of the following is NOT a factor included in Hackman and Oldham's Job Characteristics Model?
Which of the following is NOT a factor included in Hackman and Oldham's Job Characteristics Model?
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Which of the following is an example of Positive Reinforcement in the context of Motivation Theory?
Which of the following is an example of Positive Reinforcement in the context of Motivation Theory?
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Flashcards
Reinforcement Theory
Reinforcement Theory
A theory stating behavior is influenced by rewards or punishments.
Positive Reinforcement
Positive Reinforcement
Enhancing a behavior by providing a reward after it occurs.
Negative Reinforcement
Negative Reinforcement
Increasing behavior by removing an unpleasant stimulus once a desired response occurs.
Punishment
Punishment
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Extinction
Extinction
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Job Design
Job Design
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Job Enlargement vs Job Enrichment
Job Enlargement vs Job Enrichment
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Job Characteristics Model
Job Characteristics Model
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Relational Job Design
Relational Job Design
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Job Crafting
Job Crafting
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Task Crafting
Task Crafting
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Cognitive Crafting
Cognitive Crafting
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Bounded Rationality
Bounded Rationality
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Confirmation Bias
Confirmation Bias
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Sunk Cost Fallacy
Sunk Cost Fallacy
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Mood Effects on Decision Making
Mood Effects on Decision Making
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Pay-for-Performance Plans
Pay-for-Performance Plans
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Attitudes toward Risk
Attitudes toward Risk
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Study Notes
Reinforcement Theory
- Operant Learning: A behavioral approach to motivation, focusing on how consequences shape behavior.
- Positive Reinforcement: Encouraging desired behavior by adding a positive consequence (reward).
- Negative Reinforcement: Encouraging desired behavior by removing an unpleasant stimulus.
- Punishment: Presenting an unpleasant consequence to decrease an undesired behavior.
- Extinction: Withdrawing the reinforcement that is maintaining an undesired behavior.
- Organizational Behavior Modification (OB-Mod): A managerial technique to change employee behavior in the workplace.
- Defines target behaviors.
- Sets performance goals.
- Measures behavior frequency.
- Monitors behavior.
- Implements rewards.
- Employee Recognition Programs: Rewarding employees for exemplary performance (e.g., "employee of the month").
- Training and Development Programs: Planned activities to enhance employee skills and knowledge.
Job Design as a Motivator
- Job Design: The structure of a job and the tasks involved.
- Job Scope: The breadth (number of activities) and depth (discretion & control) of a job.
- High scope = more variety, control, and autonomy; low scope = less
- Job Involvement: A cognitive state reflecting the employee's perception of the job's importance and its relation to their self-image.
- challenging vs. non-challenging
- Job Enlargement: Adding more tasks to a job, keeping the tasks similar.
- Job Enrichment: Adding tasks that provide greater variety, skill use, and responsibility.
- Job Characteristics Model (Hackman & Oldham): A model describing five core job dimensions influencing employee motivation. Specific details and factors are missing from the original text.
- Relational Job Design: The structural design encouraging employee connections and interaction, and prosocial motivation.
- Job Crafting: Employees' self-initiated changes to their job to improve fit and engagement.
- Task Crafting: Altering tasks (activities, etc).
- Relational Crafting: Changing interactions (with coworkers, etc).
- Cognitive Crafting: Altering job perceptions.
Money as a Motivator
- Pay-for-Performance Plans: Compensation linked to performance.
- Production Jobs: Often paid via piece-rate systems
- Professional Jobs: Compensation structures vary.
- Gainsharing: Incentives based on team or organizational performance gains.
Alternative Motivation Methods
- Alternative Work Schedules: Flexible work arrangements.
- Flextime: Varying work hours.
- Compressed Work Weeks: Working fewer days but longer hours.
- Telecommuting: Working from home.
- Alternative (non-monetary) incentives: Rewards outside of financial compensation.
Individual Decision Making
- Individual Decision Making: The process of committing to a course of action.
- Rational Decision-Making Process: A systematic approach to problem-solving, involving steps from identification to evaluation.
- Identify the problem
- Search for solutions
- Develop potential solutions
- Evaluate solutions objectively
- Choose a course of action
- Implement a chosen solution
- Monitor and evaluate final results
- Perfect Rationality: A model of decision-making characterized by complete information, perfect logic, and maximization of economic gain.
- Bounded Rationality: A decision-making model relying on limited information, accounting for time constraints and political considerations.
- Framing: The influence of how information is presented on decision-making.
- Cognitive Biases: Errors in acquiring or processing information.
- Availability Bias: Overestimating event probability based on readily accessible information.
- Representativeness Bias: Judging the likelihood of an event based on its similarity to a prototype.
- Problems with Problem Identification: Defining the problem inaccurately. Issues include perceptual defense, defining the problem based on functional specialties, and focusing on symptoms instead of root causes.
- Problems with Information Search: Confirmation Bias, Not-invented-here Bias. Search engines are often susceptible to confirmation bias.
- Maximization: Attempt to find the perfect solution (can be problematic).
- Satisficing: Finding a satisfactory solution rather than the optimal one (often a more pragmatic choice).
- Anchoring Effect: Overreliance on initial information.
- Problems with Risk: Decision making influenced by whether a choice is framed as a gain or a loss.
- Problems with Solution Implementation: Difficulty anticipating others' ability and motivation in carrying out a decision.
- Problems with Solution Evaluation: Justification of faulty decisions, escalation of commitment (investing more in a losing course of action), sunk cost fallacy.
- Problems with Emotion and Mood: Emotions can improve judgments; or impair cognitive processes through distraction. Moods can affect information recall and evaluation.
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Explore the concepts of reinforcement theory and its application in organizational behavior. This quiz will cover key ideas such as operant learning, positive and negative reinforcement, and employee recognition programs. Test your understanding of how behavior can be modified and enhanced in the workplace.
