True / False Questions 1. Motivation is closely related to the concept of employee engagement. TRUE Employee engagement is defined as an individual's emotional and cognitive motivation, particularly a focused, intense, persistent, and purposive effort toward work-related goals. AACSB: Analytic Ac c essibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objec tive: 05-01 Define employee engagement. Level of Diffic ulty: 1 EasyTopic : Employee Engagement 2. The concept of employee engagement is related to motivation, but not to role clarity. FALSE Employee engagement is often described in terms of self-efficacy—the belief that you have the ability, role clarity, and resources to get the job done. AACSB: Analytic Ac c essibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: UnderstandLearning Objec tive: 05-01 Define employee engagement. Level of Diffic ulty: 2 MediumTopic : Employee Engagement 3. Employee engagement is on the minds of many business leaders these days because of evidence that it predicts employee and work unit performance. TRUE Employee engagement is on the minds of many business leaders these days because of evidence that it predicts employee and work unit performance. AACSB: Analytic Ac c essibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objec tive: 05-01 Define employee engagement. Level of Diffic ulty: 1 EasyTopic : Employee Engagement 4. A typical employee is highly engaged with his or her organization. FALSE The challenge facing organizational leaders is that most employees are not very engaged. AACSB: Analytic Ac c essibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objec tive: 05-01 Define employee engagement. Level of Diffic ulty: 1 EasyTopic : Employee Engagement 5. In the context of motivation, drives are also called primary needs. TRUE Drives, also called primary needs, are defined as hardwired characteristics of the brain that attempt to keep us in balance by correcting deficiencies. They accomplish this task by producing emotions that energize us to act on our environment. AACSB: Analytic Ac c essibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objec tive: 05-02 Explain how drives and emotions influenc e employee motivation and summarize Maslow's needs hierarc hy; Mc Clelland's learned needs theory; and four-drive theory. Level of Diffic ulty: 1 EasyTopic : Employee Drives and Needs 6. Drives are innate, universal, and are the prime movers of behavior because they generate emotions, which put people in a state of readiness to act on their environment. TRUE Drives are innate and universal, which means that everyone has them, and they exist from birth. Furthermore, drives are the "prime movers" of behavior because they generate emotions, which put people in a state of readiness to act on their environment. AACSB: Analytic Ac c essibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objec tive: 05-02 Explain how drives and emotions influenc e employee motivation and summarize Maslow's needs hierarc hy; Mc Clelland's learned needs theory; and four-drive theory. Level of Diffic ulty: 1 EasyTopic : Employee Drives and Needs 7. Everyone has the same drives, but they develop different intensities of needs in a particular situation. TRUE Everyone has the same drives; they are hardwired in us through evolution. However, people develop different intensities of needs in a particular situation. AACSB: Analytic Ac c essibility: Keyboard NavigationBlooms: RememberLearning Objec tive: 05-02 Explain how drives and emotions influenc e employee motivation and summarize Maslow's needs hierarc hy; Mc Clelland's learned needs theory; and four-drive theory. Level of Diffic ulty: 1 EasyTopic : Individual Differenc es in Needs