Management - Organizational Behavior Ch. 6
Organizational Behavior, Version 1.1
Bauer & Erdogan
FWK Test Item File
Chapter 6
TRUE/FALSE
1.The Nucor Steel Company’s incentive system penalizes low performers, but sets no upper limit
on the amount high performers can earn annually.
(True)
2.Evidence of the success of Nucor Steel is the low turnover rate and nonunion status of the firm.
(True)
3.Nucor Steel’s formula for success is to centralize decision making and rigidly define employee
and manager job duties.
(False)
4.Leaving employees free to choose job performance methods is an important element of scientific
management techniques.
(False)
5.Jobspecializationentails breaking down jobs into their simplest components.
(True)
6.Job enlargement involves moving employees from job to job at different intervals.
(False)
7.You are a Walt Disney Company management trainee. The first three months of your job you will
be working in the restaurant and hospitality area. The next three months you will be in the
merchandising area, followed by three months in lodging and finally, three months in park
operations. The Walt Disney management trainee program is designed using the job rotation
philosophy.
(True)
8.In a supermarket study, cashiers rotated through different departments have lower stress levels
and less pain in necks and shoulders.
(True)
9.Research shows that the psychological state of meaningfulness is the most important such state
for employee attitudes and behaviors.
(True)
10.The job characteristics model is an attempt to design jobs for increased motivational potential.
(True)
11.Skill variety and task significance are the most important elements in deciding motivational
potential.
(False)
