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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?