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53. A limitation in using the PAQ is that it _____.
54. Which of the following HR activities is similar to analyzing a job that does not yet exist?
55. _____ involves assessing the relative dollar value of each job to the organization in order
to set up fair pay structures.
56. Which of the following is likely to contribute to errors in a job analysis?
57. Which of the following best defines competency?
58. A(n) _____ is an area of personal capability that enables employees to perform their work
successfully.
59. The process of defining how work will be performed and what tasks will be required in a
given job is known as _____.
60. The industrial engineering approach is most likely to emphasize _____.
61. Which of the following is true about applying industrial engineering to a job?
62. Philip Matteo, a regional branch manager for a leading automobile company in the U.S.,
decides to design a manufacturing job based on the principles of industrial engineering.
Following its successful implementation which of the following outcomes should he expect?
63. Which of the following models was developed by Richard Hackman and Greg Oldham to
describe ways to make jobs more motivating?
64. In the Job Characteristics Model, task identity is defined as the _____.
65. Within the Job Characteristics Model, _____ refers to the job characteristic that reflects
the degree to which the job allows an individual to make decisions about the way the work is
carried out.
66. In terms of the Job Characteristics Model, feedback refers to the extent to which _____.
67. In which of the following scenarios will workers be less motivated to perform the job?
68. Which of the following is the objective of job enlargement?
69. Thought-Creations Inc., a publishing company in Manhattan conducted a survey on
employee satisfaction. The results indicated that a majority of its support staff considered their
jobs to be monotonous. In order to make the requisite change, the management decided to
combine the job duties of assistants, typists, and file clerks into a single job that requires all
three kinds of work. Which of the following techniques of job design did this move constitute?
70. Which of the following arrangements would qualify as job rotation?
71. Which of the following job design techniques involving the addition of decision-making
authorities to a job is credited to Frederick Herzberg?
72. Job enrichment differs from job rotation in that job enrichment:
