Test Bank For Organizational Behavior and Management 10th Edition

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Test Bank For Organizational Behavior and Management 10th Edition

Chapter No 6

1. Job design refers to any instance in which management specifies the duties and responsibilities of a job.
True    False

2. Job design is a one-time, static process.
True    False

3. The trade-offs between the gains in human terms from improved quality of work life and the gains in economic terms from revitalization aren’t fully known.
True    False

4. The quality of work life can always be improved through job design.
True    False

5. Performing a job can sometimes result in health problems for the worker.
True    False

6. Stress related to job performance can contribute to mental impairment.
True    False

7. Extrinsic outcomes are objects or events that follow from the worker’s own efforts in conjunction with other factors or persons directly involved in the job itself.
True    False

8. Jobs can provide intrinsic or extrinsic outcomes, but not both.
True    False

9. Job satisfaction depends on the levels of intrinsic and extrinsic outcomes and how the job-holder views those outcomes.
True    False

10. Persons who are not involved in their work or the organization that employs them cannot be expected to realize the same satisfaction as those who are.
True    False

11. Job context refers to the activities required of the job.
True    False

12. In the new economy, specific job descriptions may be relied on more than ever.
True    False

13. Job depth is the number of operations that a job occupant performs to complete a task.
True    False

14. Job depth is the amount of control that an individual has to alter or influence the job and the surrounding environment.
True    False

15. An employee with the same job title, who is at the same organizational level as another employee, may possess more or less job depth.
True    False