PSY203 Ch 10
According to the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), what type of behavior by an employer would explicitly be prohibited?
Asking a job interviewee for his or her age.
What is the main factor accounting for the gender gap in earnings?
Much fewer professional women are in higher-paying fields than in lower-paying fields
According to ________________ theory, the way you start your day influences your work performance throughout the day.
affective events
Many retirees experience a(n) ______________ retirement, because they typically do not exit the labor force in an all-or-nothing fashion.
blurred
Reaching a point in your vocational development where you no longer feel that you are growing might keep you at the:
career plateau
After several years at his current job as a sales manager, a 50-year-old man decides he would rather remain a sales manager than do anything else because it suits his personality and interests. Based on the RIASEC model, you would expect that his score on a measure of career _________ would therefore be higher than would someone else's score who did not desire a career change.
congruence
Organizational psychologists refer to the concept of motivation crowding out when employees report that they:
feel driven more by extrinsic rewards instead of by autonomous intrinsic rewards.
People who feel that their occupation is a "calling" are likely to believe that it:
fulfills their purpose in life
In a study of workplace bullying, behaviors involving ____________ were found to be most stressful of all forms of bullying.
intimidation
As workers feel that they have more control in their job, the extent of their ___________ motivation increases.
intrinsic
According to self-determination theory, to the extent that workers lose their intrinsic motivation when they receive extrinsic rewards for doing what they love, they will experience:
motivation crowding out.
Super's theory assumes that people strive to express their __________ in their vocation.
self-concept
In the work-family enrichment framework, the psychological resources category includes which component?
self-efficacy
Holland's vocational development theory describes the RIASEC model, which stands for the:
six factors that make up the model
According to work-family conflict model, when transmission of emotions happen between different aspects of your life, it is called __________.
spill-over