Ford and Xerox are two companies that have begun moving away from strict job specialization to alleviate employee motivation problems. Each company has adopted a job design alternative that involves workers in a wider variety of tasks. The method they have employed is known as job

An action directly following a particular behavior is called a(n)

When sales drop each summer at Vail Mountain Resorts, a high-quality destination ski area, the resort owners temporarily have too many employees to service the reduced number of tourists that enjoy the area during the warmer months. In this situation, the resorts most likely would

A situation in which people do most of the work is called

Carol was recently fired from her job as a purchaser for a grocery store. She was told the reason for her dismissal was the almost continuous rotting of large amounts of produce and meat while in the stockroom awaiting sale in the store. Which objective of purchasing did Carol fail to accomplish?

A computerized system that integrates production planning and inventory control is called

A firm attempting to reduce the size of its workforce may use several approaches. The approach most likely to be saved as a last resort is

Purchasing personnel should check the reliability of potential suppliers as well as suppliers’ ability to meet delivery schedules.

A motivation tool that attempts to provide workers with more tasks and more control over these tasks is

Which of the following laws of the 1930s, 1960s, and 1970s was enacted to enforce the same rate of pay for similar effort, skill, and responsibility in a job position?