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| The degree to which a job gives employees the freedom, independence, and discretion to schedule their work and determine the procedures used in completing it. |
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| A reward system that pays bonuses to executives for improved measurements on a composite of financial, customer, internal process, and employee factors. |
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| employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) |
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| A reward system that encourages employees to buy stock in the company. |
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| A psychological concept in which people experience more self-determination, meaning, competence, and impact regarding their role in the organization. |
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| Reward systems that reward team members for reducing costs and increasing labor efficiency in their work process. |
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| job characteristics model |
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| A job design model that relates the motivational properties of jobs to specific personal and organizational consequences of those properties. |
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| The process of assigning tasks to a job, including the interdependency of those tasks with other jobs. |
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| Increasing the number of tasks employees perform within their job. |
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| Employees are given more responsibility for scheduling, coordinating, and planning their own work. |
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| Systematically evaluating the worth of jobs within an organization by measuring their required skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions. Job evaluation results create a hierarchy of job worth. |
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| The practice of moving employees from one job to another. |
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| The result of division of labor in which each job includes a subset of the tasks required to complete the product or service. |
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| Mentally practicing a task and visualizing its successful completion. |
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| Herzberg’s theory stating that employees are primarily motivated by growth and esteem needs, not by lower-level needs. |
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| Reward systems that pay bonuses to employees based on the previous year’s level of corporate profits. |
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| Involves systematically partitioning work into its smallest elements and standardizing tasks to achieve maximum efficiency. |
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| The process of influencing oneself to establish the self direction and self-motivation needed to perform a task. |
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| Talking to ourselves about our own thoughts or actions for the purpose of increasing our self-efficacy and navigating through decisions in a future event. |
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| The extent to which employees must use different skills and talents to perform tasks within their job. |
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| A reward system that gives employees the right to purchase company stock at a future date at a predetermined price. |
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| The degree to which a job requires completion of a whole or an identifiable piece of work. |
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| The degree to which the job has a substantial impact on the organization and/or larger society. |
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