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Your answers should show critical thinking, analysis, and recommendations (where applicable). Some questions might ask for your opinion. Please do not type a few words or give 1 sentence answers. Tell the HOW, WHY, WHAT, and give examples were appropriate to show your critical thinking. Answers should not be just giving or reciting terms and or concepts right from the book. Rather your answers should demonstrate your critical thinking and analysis of what is being asked, along with possible recommendations or applications (i.e. is this term-concept-theory relevant or if not give the why or how. Give what could be possible advantages or disadvantages of term or concept etc.

1. When has your level of performance been directly affected by your motivation? By your ability? By the environment?
2. Identify examples from your own experience that support, and others that refute, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory.
3. Have you ever experienced inequity in a job or a class? How did it affect you?
4. Which is likely to be a more serious problem—perceptions of being under-rewarded or perceptions of being over rewarded?
5. Do you think expectancy theory is too complex for direct use in organizational settings? Why or why not?
6. Do the relationships between performance and satisfaction suggested by Porter and Lawler seem valid? Cite examples that both support and refute the model.
7. Think of occasions on which you experienced each of the four types of reinforcement.
8. Identify the five forms of reinforcement that you receive most often (i.e., wages, grades, etc.). On what schedule do you receive each of them?