Mini test MOTIVATION
Time Allowed: 90 minutes
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Instructions to candidates
This is an individual open-book test
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I. SECTION A - MULTIPLE CHOICE (3 MARKS)
1. Which is an intrinsic motivation: 5. Maslow's theory is a hierarchy because
________.
a. Salary
a. all needs are equal
b. Bonus
b. all needs are important
c. Passion
c. needs are satisfied sequentially
d. Promotion
d. needs are never truly satisfied
2. Motivation is a drive that some people
have and others don't have. 6. People who enjoy work and responsibility
have a Theory Y.
a. True
a. True
b. False
b. False
c. Unidentified
c. Unidentified
3. Maslow argued that each level in the
needs hierarchy must be substantially 7. Equity theory holds that the more unfair
satisfied before the next becomes dominant. the individual sees the situation to be, the
____ likely he is to be motivated to perform
a. True
at a high level.
b. False
a. More
c. Unidentified
b. Less
4. In Maslow's system, a person takes care
c. Greater
of safety needs before worrying about social
needs. d. Stronger
a. True 8. Vroom's expectancy theory would say that
a worker with a higher expectation of
b. False
performance will make more _____ to a job.
c. Unidentified
a. Goals
b. Behavior
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c. Effort b. a referent
d. Reward c. the input-to-output ratio of another worker
9. Which of the following is a lower-order d. the input-to-output ratio of an idealized
need in Maslow's hierarchy? worker
a. love 13. Inequity exists when one's own
outcomes-to-input ratio ________ that of the
b. self-worth
referent.
c. independence
a. is greater than but not less than
d. personal safety
b. is less than but not greater than
10. Theory Y assumes that people inherently
c. is greater than or less than
________.
d. is equal to
a. are driven by fear
14. The key to expectancy theory is that an
b. are unhappy
individual's goals ________.
c. want to control their own destiny
a. are not too high
d. don't trust one another
b. are not too high and not too low
11. Theory X assumes that people work hard
c. match the goals of fellow workers and
________.
superiors
a. only when they are forced
d. match the rewards provided by the
b. because they enjoy a sense of organization
accomplishment
15. 3-need theory of McClelland includes
c. whether or not they are paid Physiological needs.
d. out of a sense of fairness a. True
12. Equity theory compares your own b. False
outcomes-to-input ratio to that of ________.
c. Unidentified
a. your boss
II. SECTION B - OPEN QUESTIONS (7MARKS)
1. Compare Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs and ERG Theory of Alderfer.
2. Do the case study of Google on p. 455 off the text book (11th edition).
