Question :
1. The process of arousing and sustaining goal-directed behavior called:
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1. The process of arousing and sustaining goal-directed behavior is called:
a. energizing.
b. psychoanalysis. c. motivation.
d. affiliation.
2. The proposition that a person’s life was founded on the compulsion to work and the power of love is related to the:
a. Protestant ethic.
b. psychoanalytic approach. c. process theories.
d. Calvinistic perspective on motivation.
3. According to the Protestant ethic, a person should work hard because hard work and prosperity would lead to a place in heaven. The organizational scholar who advanced the Protestant Ethic notion was .
a. John Calvin
b. Sigmund Freud c. Adam Smith
d. Max Weber
4. Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding the current state of motivation theories?
a. The reinforcement approach to motivation has been found to be superior to other motivational models. b. Freud’s psychodynamic theory of motivation has generally been supported with the strongest empirical
evidence.
c. There are several approaches to motivation, and one or another may be useful in specific organizational contexts, with specific individuals or groups, at different times.
d. The motivational models that make strong economic assumptions regarding human motivation have received the most universal acceptance.
5. Frederick Taylor’s scientific management advanced the idea that:
a. unfulfilled needs acted as motivation.
b. the relationship of management and labor should be one of cooperation rather than conflict. c. money was not a motivator.
d. self-interest and economic gain are motivators for the owners of production and not the employees of owners.
6. The basic motivational assumption within Taylor’s scientific management is the same as within Adam Smith’s political economic notions which holds that:
a. both intrinsic and extrinsic factors influence motivation. b. ungratified needs motivate behavior.
c. individuals are largely motivated by power, affiliation, and achievement. d. people are motivated by self-interest and economic gain.
7. Adam Smith formulated the “invisible hand” and the free market to explain the motivation for individual behavior.
a. personal ethics in a free market system. b. unconscious motives.
c. internal needs.
d. unseen forces of a free market system.
8. Modern management practices such as employee management recognition programs, flexible benefit packages, and stock ownership plans emphasize:
a. internal needs.
b. intrinsic motivation. c. external incentives.
d. the principle of the psychodynamic theory.
9. An approach to employee motivation that considers both psychological needs and external incentives is:
a. psychodynamic theory.
b. McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y.
c. psychological ownership.
d. organizational citizenship behavior.
10. All of the following are drives or needs that underlie employee motivation Except:
a. to acquire. b. to bond.
c. to achieve.
d. to comprehend.
