Lecture 4

Question 1

What job characteristics influence meaningful work according to the Job Characteristics Model?

a) Autonomy, feedback, social support
b) Task identity, task significance, skill variety
c) Skill variety, decision latitude, job complexity
d) Stimulating, autonomous and relational work characteristics

Answer 1

b) Task identity, task significance, skill variety

Question 2

Which higher order factor contains feedback from coworkers in the SMART model off work design (Parker & Knight, 2024)?

a) Stimulating work characteristics
b) Mastery work characteristics
c) Autonomous work characteristics
d) Relational work characteristics
e) Tolerable work characteristics

Answer 2

b) Mastery work characteristics

Question 3

Through what psychological processes do mastery work characteristics relate to job satisfaction (Parker & Knight, 2024)?

a) Challenge appraisals and work meaningfulness
b) Challenge appraisals and lower activated negative affect
c) Fulfilment of relatedness needs and work meaningfulness
d) Fulfilment of relatedness needs and lower activated negative affect

Answer 3

b) Challenge appraisals and lower activated negative affect

Question 4

What are the indicators of a sustainable career (De Vos et al., 2020)?

a) Ability, motivation, opportunity
b) Proactivity, adaptability, meaning
c) Growth, reflection, engagement
d) Happiness, health, productivity

Answer 4

d) Happiness, health, productivity

Question 5

What are career anchors (Schein, 1996)?

a) Positive experiences in a career
b) Steps on the career ladder
c) Values that are important for a person
d) Persons that act as a role model

Answer 5

c) Values that are important for a person

Question 6

Why is it difficult to examine sickness absence at an individual level?

Answer 6

• Many factors outside work influence sickness absence
• Sickness absence is strongly positively skewed

Question 7

What is the following a definition of?

“Sequences of career experiences reflected through a variety of patterns of continuity over time, thereby crossing several social spaces, characterized by individual agency, herewith providing meaning to the individual”.

Answer 7

Sustainable careers

Question 8

Career anchors according to Edgar Schein (1996)

Answer 8

• Technical/functional
• General managerial
• Autonomy/Independence
• Security/Stability
• Entrepreneurial creativity
• Service/Dedication to a cause
• Pure challenge
• Lifestyle