Deck 6: Content Theories of Motivation

Question 1

The content theories of motivation focus on the assumption that individuals are motivated by the desire to satisfy their unmet needs.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Employee motivation has a direct impact on a health services organization's performance

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Managers need to be conscious of the fact that all employees are not driven by the same needs, nor is any employee driven by the same need, at the same time.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Alderfer's ERG theory like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory requires an individual to satisfy a lower level need for a higher-level need to become the driver of a person's behavior.

Question 5

The frustration-regression principle of the ERG theory explains that when a barrier prevents an individual from obtaining a higher level need, a person may "regress" to a lower-level need (or vice versa) to achieve satisfaction.

Question 6

Hygiene factors relate to job content and motivators/satisfiers relate to job context.

Question 7

Each content theory of motivation is separate, distinct, and unrelated.

Question 8

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs had a great influence on the study of organizational behavior.

Question 9

Money is a well-known motivator for job satisfaction.

Question 10

The levels in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs are:

A) growth, relatedness, and existence.
B) satisfiers, physiological, relatedness, self-esteem, and safety.
C) physiological, affiliation, safety, self-actualization, and self-esteem.
D) hygiene, affiliation, safety, satisfiers, and self-actualization.
E) self-actualization, self-esteem, affiliation, safety, and physiological.