Question 1:

a. Why do individual monetary incentives tend to have greater motivational effects than group incentive systems?

b. How does goal setting operate as a motivational process, and what factors do and do not influence its success?

Question 2:

As a Human Resources Consultant, you have been assigned the task of producing a Human Resource Plan (HRP) for a client organisation:

a. What types of information would you need before you produce the HRP?

b. Outline what kinds of measures you would need to incorporate into the HRP to cope with any surplus of staff in the next twelve months.

Question 3:

"There seems to be an unquestioning assumption that training is the solution to performance problems amongst all categories of employees". Critically assess the validity of this common belief in some organizations.