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Question
(p. 106) Alex has been working as technical service representative for Convergence Technologies, a software development firm for two years. His duties and responsibilities include providing technical assistance to end users, preparing reports on product problems encountered, selling additional products, and soliciting customer feedback.
During a performance review meeting with his manager, Alex mentions that he finds his job to be very monotonous. Discuss how the manager can use job enrichment to deal with this situation.
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A. additive tasks
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C. subjunctive tasks
D. disjunctive tasks
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C. subjunctive tasks
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A. The members are bound to follow their duties and do not have any scope for improving their performance.
B. The responsibilities of the leader and the rest of the team are distinct.
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A. Programmed
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A. reinforcement.
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B. Fixed interval schedule
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B. negative reinforcement; extinction
C. punishment; negative reinforcement
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