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CSEET (CS Entrance) Motivating Employees — practice questions

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Climb the hierarchy of needsRead the answer and worked solution →Motivator or hygiene factor?Read the answer and worked solution →Theory X or Theory Y?Read the answer and worked solution →Match each thinker to their ideaRead the answer and worked solution →Match each work option to its meaningRead the answer and worked solution →True or false: what motivatesRead the answer and worked solution →Spot the false line in each setRead the answer and worked solution →Complete the motivation theoriesRead the answer and worked solution →Motivation is the set of forces that prompt a person to do what?Read the answer and worked solution →In the study of motivation, a need is the gap between what is and what else?Read the answer and worked solution →A want differs from a need because a want is the gap between what is and what?Read the answer and worked solution →The classical era of management, which ran from about 1900 to the mid-1930s, is most associated with which figure?Read the answer and worked solution →One principle of scientific management concerns how work and responsibility are split. What does it require?Read the answer and worked solution →How did Taylor study the individual jobs in the mill?Read the answer and worked solution →Which era of management began in the 1930s and focused on how human behavior affects organizational performance?Read the answer and worked solution →Elton Mayo and his colleagues conducted their experiments at the Hawthorne plant over which period?Read the answer and worked solution →Which needs sit at the base of Maslow's hierarchy?Read the answer and worked solution →In work terms, what do the safety needs in Maslow's hierarchy amount to?Read the answer and worked solution →Which needs occupy the third level of Maslow's hierarchy?Read the answer and worked solution →Esteem needs, at the fourth level of Maslow's hierarchy, cover which wants?Read the answer and worked solution →Douglas McGregor formulated two contrasting sets of assumptions about human nature. What are they called?Read the answer and worked solution →The Theory X management style rests on which view of human nature?Read the answer and worked solution →Which assumption belongs to Theory X rather than to Theory Y?Read the answer and worked solution →Which statement about work belongs to the Theory Y set of assumptions?Read the answer and worked solution →Under Theory Y, how does the average person treat responsibility when conditions are right?Read the answer and worked solution →Managers who operate on Theory X assumptions often produce which kind of subordinates?Read the answer and worked solution →In Herzberg's theory, motivating factors are which kind of job element?Read the answer and worked solution →In Herzberg's theory, hygiene factors are which kind of job element?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these does Herzberg classify as a hygiene factor?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these does Herzberg classify as a motivating factor?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Climb the hierarchy of needs

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Steps
  1. Physiological
  2. Safety
  3. Social
  4. Esteem
  5. Self-actualization
Instructions
Tap the five levels of need from the most basic upward.
_Source: OpenStax Introduction to Business, section 9.3 Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs_

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Motivator or hygiene factor?

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Left
Motivator
Items
  1. Item
    Achievement
    Answer
    Motivator
  2. Item
    Company policy
    Answer
    Hygiene factor
  3. Item
    Recognition
    Answer
    Motivator
  4. Item
    Responsibility
    Answer
    Motivator
  5. Item
    Job security
    Answer
    Hygiene factor
  6. Item
    Advancement
    Answer
    Motivator
  7. Item
    Growth
    Answer
    Motivator
  8. Item
    Salary
    Answer
    Hygiene factor
  9. Item
    Working conditions
    Answer
    Hygiene factor
  10. Item
    Supervision
    Answer
    Hygiene factor
Right
Hygiene factor
Instructions
Swipe left for a motivator, right for a hygiene factor.
_Source: OpenStax Introduction to Business, section 9.5 Herzberg's Motivator-Hygiene Theory_

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Theory X or Theory Y?

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Left
Theory X
Items
  1. Item
    Dislikes work
    Answer
    Theory X
  2. Item
    Needs punishment
    Answer
    Theory X
  3. Item
    Work is natural
    Answer
    Theory Y
  4. Item
    Prefers direction
    Answer
    Theory X
  5. Item
    Is self-directed
    Answer
    Theory Y
  6. Item
    Is creative
    Answer
    Theory Y
  7. Item
    Wants security
    Answer
    Theory X
  8. Item
    Is unambitious
    Answer
    Theory X
  9. Item
    Solves problems
    Answer
    Theory Y
  10. Item
    Self-controlled
    Answer
    Theory Y
Right
Theory Y
Instructions
Swipe left for a Theory X assumption, right for a Theory Y assumption.
_Source: OpenStax Introduction to Business, section 9.4 McGregor's Theories X and Y_

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