Allowing Workers to Text and Email Friends During Office Hours

question 40

True/False

Allowing workers to text and email friends during office hours is dysfunctional for productivity.

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Definitions:

Incentive Approach

A motivational model that suggests behavior is directed towards rewards or away from punishments.

Motivation

The psychological processes that arouse and direct goal-directed behavior.

Drive-Reduction Theory

A motivational theory proposing that humans are motivated to reduce internal states of tension and psychological discomfort, seeking to restore homeostasis.

Drives

Psychological triggers that stimulate an organism to action toward a specific goal or fulfillment of a need.