Chapter 10

Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have an unemployment rate of ___% across all age groups

11.6

In the U.S., how does a college degree influence an individual's earning potential?

All college graduates have higher earning potential than high school graduate

To provide old age retirement benefits and unemployment insurance, Congress passed the _______ ________ law in 1935

Social Security

The major source of income for retirees is

Social Security.

What differentiates the "new mode" approach from the "usual" mode of retirement?

The individual takes the spouse's qualities and family obligations into account

older workers are more reliable according to which criterion?

absenteeism

According to ___________ theory, retirees maintain a sense of identity and therefore do not experience retirement in a negative manner.

continuity

A 40-year-old mother of two who works as a managerial assistant in an accounting firm earns enough to be able to schedule after-school child care without this impinging significantly on her family budget. She would therefore be rated as high on which component of the work-family enrichment model?

material resources

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.

In a protean career, workers feel that they are best able to achieve

personal growth and self-fulfillment.

The idea that people are able to draw on their physical, psychological, and social capabilities to allow them to adjust to retirement is referred to as the ________ model

resource

In a boundaryless career, workers feel that they are able to:

seek a company that gives them opportunities for advancement

Super's theory, unlike Holland's, assumes that people strive to express their __________ in their vocation.

self-concept

A supervisor in a large hardware store wants to encourage his older workers to seek out on-the-job training so they will keep themselves familiarized with new products. One way to do so is to build the sense of _______________ in these older workers.

self-efficacy

In the work-family enrichment framework, the psychological resources category includes which component

self-efficacy

The concept of emotional labor applies most closely to which type of job industry?

service

Holland's vocational development theory describes the RIASEC model, which stands for the:

six factors that make up the model

Research on age and job performance shows that older workers are typically better in which regard than are younger workers?

taking fewer voluntary absences for personal reasons

In the Occupational Reinforcement Pattern (ORP) system, jobs are rated according to which type of characteristic?

values and needs

As of 2012, the average monthly benefit for Social Security was approximately $________:

1241

In 2018, estimates are that _______% of the 55-59 year-old population will be in the labor force

80

In 2011, the gender gap in earnings equaled _____% based on median weekly earnings.

82

A manager is seeking to fill a job opening on his sales staff. His human resources department warns him that he can't take age into account, as mandated by which Federal legislation?

ADEA

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

Which of the following occupations fits into the RIASEC social type?

Math teacher

What is the main factor accounting for the gender gap in earnings

Only 8% of professional women are in higher-paying fields

Which of the following is a sociocultural factor in the biopsychosocial model of retirement

Opportunities for engagement

A fact about the employment status of veterans compared to non-veterans is that:

about 25% have a service-connected disability.

A 56-year-old sales manager in an office supply company has started to suspect that the younger workers at the company are giving jobs not to her but to their age peers. However, she can't quite figure out if this is true or not. She's been worried about losing her edge anyhow, and now she doubts herself even more. According to the identity process model, she is engaging in identity:

accommodation

According to ________________ theory, the way you start your day influences your work performance throughout the day

affective events

According to Holland's RIASEC model, the people most likely to want a career in accounting would have a(n) ____________ occupational type

artistic

The majority of retirees are said to experience a(n) ______________ retirement, because they typically do not exit the labor force in an all-or-nothing fashion

blurred

Being able to find a ________________ career, in which people are not tied to a particular company or organization, might be difficult during times of a tight economy.

boundaryless

Individuals who feel that their occupation is a(n) ____________ are likely to feel the most personal meaning in their work.

calling

The basis for understanding the connection between individuals and social organizations as these interact over the individual's lifetime is the:

career

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

A financial analyst who works for a large firm that manages mutual funds would be considered to have which type of job in the RIASEC model?

conventional

In Whitehall II, workers in lower employment grades had higher ___________ levels, beginning in the morning and continuing through the end of the day, supporting the idea that their stress was related to poor sleep as well as their experiences at work.

cortisol

In the earliest, or _____________ stage of vocational development, individuals attempt to find a way to express their self-concept through their work.

exploration

As workers feel that they have more control in their job, the extent of their ___________ motivation decreases.

extrinsic

The work-related quality known as the core self-evaluation consists of an individual's perception of his or her

feeling of self-efficacy in the job

The so-called "absolute innovators" identified in a study of retired travelers were more likely than the comparison group of non-innovators to:

find opportunities for growth and self-expression

In "Aging Today," the case of Marissa Mayer (CEO of Yahoo) showed that she gives her employees few resources on which component of the work-family enrichment model?

flexibility

People who feel that their occupation is a "calling" are likely to believe that it

fulfills their purpose in life.

A large meta-analysis of studies on aging and job satisfaction showed that older workers were more satisfied with their jobs if they:

had longer job tenure

Extrinsic factors are the same as _____________ factors in the two-factor motivational theory.

hygiene

Workers who fail to develop as optimally as possible are, in Holland's theory, referred to as

incongruent

In a study of workplace bullying, behaviors involving ____________ were found to be most stressful of all forms of bullying.

intimidation

A scuba instructor greatly enjoys his work, especially the fact that he can spend much of his day underwater exploring the reefs. He also likes the activity of teaching especially when he can introduce someone new to the pleasures of the sport. He is high on which type of work factor motivation

intrinsic