BARCELA, LOVIE MITZ S.

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1. Why is motivating relevant to the job of the engineer manager? Ans. Motivating relevant to the job of the engineer manager, because motivating is important to professional engineer. And a job of manager is to motivate people. 2. Are motivation techniques applicable to engineers? Cite examples. Ans. Yes, motivation techniques applicable to engineers because motivation techniques should help engineer to achieve excellence. For example, Motivation Techniques Self Awareness. Successful people know their own strengths and weaknesses. Do you have an area of excellence? Are there a few things you can do better than others? Successful people discover and follow their areas of strength, without wasting time in jobs where they are weak. 3. When Maslow insinuated that needs are hierarchical, what does he mean? Ans. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is often portrayed in the shape of a pyramid with the largest, most fundamental levels of needs at the bottom and the need for selfactualization at the top. While the pyramid has become the de facto way to represent the hierarchy, Maslow himself never used a pyramid to describe these levels in any of his writings on the subject. 4. What factors are associated with employee satisfaction and dissatisfaction? Ans. Eliminate the dissatisfaction and satisfaction. 5. What are expectancies and valences? How do they affect performance? Ans. An expectancy is a belief about the likelihood or probability that a particular behaviour act will lead to a particular outcome. Valence is the value an individual places on the expected outcomes or rewards. 6. What is meant by goal setting? What are the components of the goal setting model? Ans. Goal setting refers to the process of improving performance with objectives, deadlines or quality standard. The components are goal content, goal commitment, work behaviour and feedback aspects. 7. How many an individual be motivated through job design? Ans. In motivating through the use of job design, two approaches may be used: fitting people to jobs or fitting jobs to people. 8. How many rewards be classified? Ans. Rewards may be classified into two categories: Extrinsic and Intrinsic rewards. 9. In what specific activities may employees participate? Ans. Setting goals, making decision, solving problems, and designing and implementing organizational changes. 10. What benefits are made possible under flexible schedules? Ans. There is an arrangement, called flextime, which allows employees to determine their own arrival and departure.