TWA

Question 1

TWA - name, year

Answer 1

Theory of Work Adjustment

1957 as part of the Work Adjustment Project at the Univ of Minnesota

Question 2

TWA- summary of description

Answer 2

Matching model
Reciprocal relationship between people and the environment
Predict their satisfaction with work environment
Level of satisfactoriness within work environment

Question 3

Six core values

Answer 3

1. Achievement
2. Comfort
3. Status
4. Altruism
5. Safety
6. Autonomy

Question 4

Options for individuals who are dissatisfied with their environments

Answer 4

1. Attempt to change the environment

2. Change themselves

Question 5

Options when individuals are unsatisfactory; therefore the environment is dissatisfied with them

Answer 5

1. Increasing level of skill

2. Attempt to change environments expectations

Question 6

TWA founders

Answer 6

Lofguist and Dawis influenced by Parsons Model (1909)

Question 7

‘Top’ of the model

Answer 7

Person has Abilities, the job/work Environment have Requirement of Abilities; if there is a fit, there is CORRESPONDENCE, and this will result in SATISFACTORINESS

Question 8

‘Bottom’ of the model

Answer 8

Person has Needs/Values, the job/work Environment have Reinforcers, if there is a fit there is CORRESPONDENCE, this will result in SATISFACTION

Question 9

Adjustment styles

Answer 9

1. Flexible
2. Active adjustment
3. Reactive adjustment
4. Perseverance

Question 10

Flexibility style

Answer 10

Tolerance for discorrespondence before doing something about it.
High flexibility means that correspondence between needs/values and reinforcers is not as important

Question 11

Active adjustment ‘strategy’

Answer 11

When a person (or Environment) is dissatisfied
Person can try to change the Environment
Or the Environment can attempt to change the Person
The key for this ‘strategy’ is the action is doing something of the OTHER party

Question 12

Reactive adjustment ‘strategy’

Answer 12

When a person (or Environment) is dissatisfied
Person attempts to change something WITHIN themselves or the Environment attempts to change something WITHIN the work environment.
The key for this ‘strategy’ is the action is doing something within- not others.

Question 13

Perseverance ‘strategy’

Answer 13

How long the person will work to achieve correspondence before leaving OR
How long the job will stay with the person to achieve correspondence before firing