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