Match the following forms of worker participation programs to their descriptions:

Question

1. Self directed work teams
2. Job enlargement
3. Quality of work life programs
4. Quality circles
5. Gainsharing
6. Profit-sharing
7. Job enrichment

a. An attempt at increasing employee involvement in the workplace by giving employees more tasks with greater levels of responsibility.
b. A forum for workers to make suggestions about how to improve productivity and quality through regular group meetings with supervisors.
c. Programs focused on improving the work environment, such as ventilation and the nature of employee-supervisor relations but do not change how work is organized and completed.
d. An autonomous group of employees that is responsible for a set of job tasks as well as routine maintenance tasks. Workers are empowered to make some decisions.
e. Programs that try to increase employee participation by promising employees a portion of the earnings they make in a given period of time (e.g., a year).
f. Programs that try to increase employee participation by promising employees that they will receive a "cut" of the savings they are able to achieve in a given time period (e.g., a year).
g. An attempt at increasing employee involvement in the workplace by giving employees more tasks (i.e., variety) of the same level of responsibility.

Answer 1

1. d. An autonomous group of employees that is responsible for a set of job tasks as well as routine maintenance tasks. Workers are empowered to make some decisions.
2. g. An attempt at increasing employee involvement in the workplace by giving employees more tasks (i.e., variety) of the same level of responsibility.
3. c. Programs focused on improving the work environment, such as ventilation and the nature of employee-supervisor relations but do not change how work is organized and completed.
4. b. A forum for workers to make suggestions about how to improve productivity and quality through regular group meetings with supervisors.
5. f. Programs that try to increase employee participation by promising employees that they will receive a "cut" of the savings they are able to achieve in a given time period (e.g., a year).
6. e. Programs that try to increase employee participation by promising employees a portion of the earnings they make in a given period of time (e.g., a year).
7. a. An attempt at increasing employee involvement in the workplace by giving employees more tasks with greater levels of responsibility.