Which of the following actions accurately reflects the reinforcement theory of motivation?

Which of the following actions accurately reflects the reinforcement theory of motivation?
 
  A) A company's policy of cutting a day's pay if an employee reports to work later than 10.30 A.M.
  B) A company's policy of giving its sales staff cash coupons for exceeding their daily targets.
  C) A company initiating a process of job redesign to engage its employees better.
  D) A company setting specific and difficult goals and ensuring that employees accept them.

Question 2

________ refers to the number of different tasks required in a job and the frequency with which those tasks are repeated.
 
  A) Job scope
  B) Job depth
  C) job enlargement
  D) job enrichment

Question 3

To help her new supervisors remember the concept of reinforcement theory, Carol told them to remember this: ________.
 
  A) What gets measured gets monitored
  B) What gets rewarded gets repeated
  C) Whatever can go wrong will
  D) No good deed goes unpunished

Question 4

The goal-setting theory has most value in countries where ________.
 
  A) there is low uncertainty avoidance
  B) there is high power distance
  C) individuals are low in assertiveness
  D) subordinates are reasonably independent

Question 5

The goal-setting theory has the most value when ________.
 
  A) the individual is a high achiever
  B) the goals are assigned to the individual
  C) the individual has low self-efficacy
  D) commitment to goals is made public

Question 6

In a familiar children's book, a little locomotive was asked to pull a heavy train up a steep mountain. The little engine, as he was called, kept telling himself I think I can. I think I can. The little engine was ________.
 
  A) high in need for affiliation
  B) low in commitment
  C) high in self-efficacy
  D) low in risk avoidance

Question 7

________ theory says that behavior is a function of its consequences.
 
  A) Reinforcement
  B) Expectancy
  C) Equity
  D) Two-factor

Question 8

In the context of the reinforcement theory, reinforcers are ________.
 
  A) those consequences that immediately follow a behavior and increase the probability that the behavior will be repeated
  B) punishments or rewards that are given out for negative or positive employee behavior, respectively
  C) the specific, unambiguous goals that have been set for employees as a standard for measuring their performance
  D) the supervisors or managers who have the responsibility of monitoring and reinforcing desired employee behavior