Common Examples of Ordinal Scales Include Educational Levels and Social

question 45

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Common examples of ordinal scales include educational levels and social security numbers.

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Definitions:

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.

Flexible Work Hour Plans

Are plans in which employees usually must still work 40 hours per week and typically 5 days a week but in which they have control over the starting and ending times for work on each day.

Piece-rate Incentive Plan

A compensation system where employees are paid based on the amount of output they produce.