Effective Performance-Based Rewards Should

question 156

Multiple Choice

Effective performance-based rewards should:

• A)be based mainly on the employee's years of service with the company.
• B)reward behaviours and outcomes that are under the employee's control.
• C)reward only individual performance when employees have highly interdependent tasks.
• D)All of the answers are correct.
• E)reward behaviours and outcomes that are under the employee's control and reward only individual performance when employees have highly interdependent tasks.

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Definitions:

Behavior

The range of actions and observable emotions of individuals or groups in response to external or internal stimuli.

Continuous Reinforcement

A learning schedule in which a behavior is reinforced each time it occurs, leading to a rapid acquisition of the behavior.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response.

Operant Conditioning

A learning method where the consequences of a behavior influence the likelihood of that behavior occurring again.