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1. Which of the following is true regarding job engagement?

Practicing managers believe that job engagement cannot improve performance.

Organizations that have less engaged employees are more successful.

Academic studies have found negative outcomes of job engagement.

Critics note that higher levels of engagement may result in work-family conflict.

Groups with more engaged employees have lower levels of productivity.

2. Which of the following statements is true regarding a management by objective (MBO) program?

MBO programs strongly discourage providing performance feedback because it can have negative effects on employee motivation.

MBO programs set generalized rather than specific goals.

MBO strongly advocates that the goals should be assigned by the managers without the employees participating in the goal setting process.

MBO programs involve explicit time periods.

Many elements in MBO programs match propositions of cognitive evaluation theory.

3. One of your classmates was recently found to have cheated on the exam. Though furious, your instructor spoke to the student very kindly and listened to the student's story of being very stressed out and having to work a part-time job. Your instructor's behavior is an attempt at ________.

punitive justice

intrinsic justice

procedural justice

interpersonal justice

distributive justice

4. According to the theory of job engagement, which of the following activities will aid a manager in facilitating engagement for their employees?

giving the employees a raise

offering the employees a vacation

providing comfortable desks

including the employees in weekly planning meetings

None of these work under the theory of job enrichment.

5. According to a recent large scale study, justice perceptions are important to all of the following values except ________.

individualism

collectivism

uncertainty-avoidance

low power-distance

feminine