Posted: June 10th, 2015

Individual Assignment 5

Individual Assignment 5

Respond to the following questions, in your OWN words.  Do not simply copy the information from the textbook.  You are to synthesize the information and state it in your own words. Where applicable, use the text as a reference to substantiate your answer.  

1. Why is monetary compensation not necessarily a motivator of improved performance?

2. Under what circumstances could morale be high while the motivation to perform is weak or lacking?

3. Describe the fundamental employee needs that reward and recognition primarily fulfill.

4. How have organizational mergers and other affiliations affected employee morale, and why do you believe they have these effects?

5. How can a system for collecting and evaluating employee suggestions become a morale depressor rather than a morale booster?

6. Provide an example of how a supervisor might positively manipulate the reward to risk ratio of a problem situation so as to influence employee behavior.

7. In what ways do employee counseling and the delivery of an oral warning differ from each other, if at all?

8. Under what circumstances might the warnings in an employee’s file become legal documentation? What hazards might this present for the supervisor?

9. Why might nonpunitive discipline work better with some employees than with others?

10. Why is it important to purge an employee’s file of disciplinary documentation after some period of time?

Individual Case Study: Umiker Text, page 291. “Let’s Get This Leadership Thing Out of the Way” Following the instructions for this case, please describe what you would do.

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