Describe how the "Job Characteristics Model" describes jobs.
What will be an ideal response?
According to the "Job Characteristics Model," jobs can be described in terms of five characteristics.
1. Skill variety is the extent to which a job requires a variety of skills to carry out the tasks.
2. Task identity is the degree to which a job requires completing a "whole" piece of work from beginning to end.
3. Autonomy is the degree to which a job allows an individual to make decisions about the way the work will be carried out.
4. Feedback is the extent to which a person receives clear information about performance effectiveness from the work itself.
5. Task significance is the extent to which a job has an important impact on the lives of other people.
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A. .0241. B. .0771. C. .1126. D. .9107.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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a. Direct evidence b. Documentary evidence c. Demonstrative evidence d. Circumstantial evidence
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A. must turn over to Palmette any profits he made on the sale. B. may keep any profits on the sale since he had a good reason to sell and was not selling in order to manipulate the market. C. may keep the profits from the sale as long as he reported his sale to the SEC within two business days. D. may keep any profits from the sale if he did not act on secret information when he sold the shares.