A Powerful Vision

question 8

Multiple Choice

A powerful vision:

• A)is the organization's core broad purpose and reason for existence.
• B)persists in the face of changing technologies, economic conditions, or other envirornnental shifts.
• C)serves as an opportunity to people to go where they have gone before.
• D)provides a measure by which employees can gauge their contributions to the organization.

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Definitions:

Knowledge-based Pay Plan

A compensation strategy where employees are paid based on their skills, knowledge, and abilities, rather than their job title or position.

Skill Variety

The degree to which a job requires a variety of different activities that involve the use of a number of different skills and talents of the person performing the job.

Motivation

Motivation refers to the processes that account for an individual's intensity, direction, and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal.

Compressed Workweeks

Are arrangements in which the employee works the required number of hours (typically 40) but does so in fewer than 5 days. For example, a 4-day, 10-hour-a-day work schedule is fairly common.