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20 Cards in this Set
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Job Design |
The way elements in a job are organised |
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Job Characteristics Model (JCM) - A model that proposes that any job can be described in terms of five core job dimensions.... |
1) Skill variety: Variation of activities required 2)Task Identity: Completion of an identifiable piece of work. 3)Task Significance: Impact on other lives. 4)Autonomy: requires workers discretion and freedom 5) Feedback |
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Motivating Potential Score |
A predictive index that suggests the motivating potential in a job based on the five core job dimensions. |
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Job Rotation |
The periodic shifting of an employee from one task to another |
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Job enrichment |
The vertical expansion of jobs, which increases the degree to which the worker controls the planning, execution, and evaluation of the work. |
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Flexitime |
Flexible working hours |
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Job sharing |
An arrangement that allows two or more individuals to split a traditional 40-hour-per-week job. |
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Telecommuting |
Working from home at least two days a week on a computer that is linked to the employers office. |
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Employee Involvement |
A participative process that uses the input of employees and is intended to increase employee commitment to an organisations' success |
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Participative Management |
A process in which subordinates share a significant degree of decision-making power with their immediate superiors. |
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Representative Participation |
A system in which workers participate in organisational decision making through a small group of representative employees. |
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Variable-pay-program. |
A pay plan that bases a portion of an employee's pay on some individual and/or organisational measure of performance. |
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Piece-rate pay plan |
A pay plan in which workers are paid a fixed sum for each unit of production completed |
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Merit-based pay plan |
A pay plan based on performance appraisal ratings |
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Bonus |
A pay plan that rewards employees for recent performance V's historical performance |
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Skill-based pay |
A pay plan that sets pay levels on the basis of how many skills employees have or how many jobs they can do |
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Profit-sharing plan |
An organisation-wide program that distributes compensation based on some established formula designed around profits |
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Gainsharing |
A formula-based group incentive plan. |
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Employee stock ownership plan |
A company-established benefits plan in which employees acquire stock, often at below-market prices, as part of their benefits. |
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Flexible Benefits |
A benefits plan that allows each employee to put together a benefits package individually tailored to his/her own needs. |
