Week 12 Flashcards
How is job satisfaction typically measured and where
In North America through surveys
What is the standard question for job satisfaction surveys?
All in all, how satisfied are you with your job?
Three concerns with job satisfaction surveys
Percentage of satisfy depends on response categories
Behaviours may be a more valid measure (like strikes)
More probing questions on specific facets of job may be needed
General transfer job satisfaction: what can we say about older workers?
Older workers are more satisfied than younger workers
General trends in job satisfaction: what can we say about men and women?
Little difference between men and women, in self reported job satisfaction
Define alienation in terms of work
Human condition resulting from an absence of fulfilling work
Define job stress
An individual experienced negative reaction to a job or work environment
Define burn out
Individual unable to cope with job
Two types of stressors in job stress
Objective situations (noisy work environment)
Events (dispute with supervisor)
Work related stress is difficult to measure independent of ______ _____
Job satisfaction
Two types of symptoms for work related stress
Physical and mental
List 4 general types of key stressors in job stress
Job insecurity
Organizational restructuring
Supervisors
Harassment
Two consequences of job stress
Physical reactions
Mental health
What does the demand-control model refer to
(What does a label stressors as)
Job demands and worker control
(Stressors= job demands)
Define active and passive jobs
Active: high decision, making potential
Passive: low decision making potential
Demand and control model: what does this equal
Less stress
Demand and control model: what does this equal
Stress
(And high potential for physical and psychological ill health)
Describe the demand-control model of stress
(Diagram)
2 box labels, axis
What model is this
Person-Environment fit model
Person-Environment fit model: give an example
Stress and burn out among social workers and teachers
Person-Environment fit model: considers ______ orientations (________ focus)
Work
Individualistic
Define work values
The meaning of work in a particular society
Define work orientations
Meaning attached to work by particular individuals
Define job satisfaction
Individual and subjective response to a person to material and psychological job rewards
Define manifest work functions
Maintaining or improving standard of living
Define latent work functions
(And example)
Contribute to an individual’s well-being
(Experiences of creativity, sense of purpose)
Work as a curse: what does Hardwork equal?
(And what type of labour is this)
(Penal and forced labour)
Work as a curse: what did St. Thomas Aquinas say?
Not ALL work is a curse or necessary evil
Work as a Service/vocation: where did this come from?
Protestant reformation and Martin Luther
Work as a Service/vocation: work as a central component of _____ __
Work as a “____”
Human life
“Calling”
Work as personal fulfilment: the humanist ______
Tradition
List the 2 types of freedom at work
Freedom from nature
Freedom from coercion of other people
Define freedom from nature
Creative activity done independently of daily necessities
Define freedom from coercion of other people
Contractual relation between legal equals, free to pursue their own interests
Work: define identity
Work as a source of self identification, self definition, incorporating, personally, relevant attributes, social roles, and group categorization
What are the two historical work values?
Freedom
Identity
When did industrialization and bureaucracy take place?
Late 1800s/early 1900s
Define proliferation of positions
Fitting people to jobs
What two ideas relate to the proliferation of positions
Industrialization in bureaucracy
There was a rise of _______ and ______ of INDIVIDUAL skills
Psychology
Testing
When did IQ measures and ability take place?
About 1890
Matching: three categories of the basic assumptions
Individual
Position
Other factors
The Protestant ethic, and the spirit of capitalism is written by who
Max weber
What does the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism argue?
-emphasized how Calvinist that had broken away from the Roman Catholic Church embraced, hard work, rejected worldly pleasures, and extol the virtues of frugality
What does the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism suggest?
Religious beliefs, encourage people to make and reinvest profits and intern gave rise to work. Values conducive to the growth of capitalism.
What explains the rapid growth of east Asian economies?
Confucian work ethic
Define Confucian work ethic
Traditional habits of hard work, greater willingness to work towards a common goal, and employees ready compliance with authority
Define Rifkin’s “ end of work”
New technologies and global production patterns would essentially mean the end of work as we know it for many people
Define the culture of overwork
Managers, professionals, common other advantage workers are willingly taking part in the new culture of overwork
Overwork has become a what signal and why
A status signal as many professional, take pride in the long hours they work, and how they multitask
What used to be a sign of status for the upper and middle classes?
(And what was this replaced by)
Leisure
(Culture of overwork)
List the 3 different ways that David Lockwood believed British working class. Man perceived social inequality.
Proletarian
Differential
Instrumental
David Lockwood: define proletarian workers
Saw the world in an “ us against them” conflict with their employers
David Lockwoods ideas about proletarian workers are consistent with which philosopher
Marks
David Lockwood: define differential workers
Also, recognize class differences, but excepted the status quo, believing that wealth and power in equities were justified
David Lockwood work orientations: which two types were found, primarily in declining industries
Proletarian
Differential
David Lockwood: define instrumental workers
Workers had a dominant feeling of indifference, just wanted to obtain a better standard of living
David Lockwood labelled what type of workers as privatized workers
Instrumental workers
Define roll overload
Having more role demands than one can possibly fulfil
To consequences of women’s labor, force participation
Work family conflict
Roll overload
What does the outsourced self talk about?
(And example)
A wide array of family and household work that was once done in the home, but is now being purchased in local, regional, and national markets in North America
(Childcare)
Define core house work
(And examples)
Regular house work
(Meal prep, meal, clean up, indoor, cleaning, laundry)
Define noncore house work
(And examples)
Infrequent house work
(Outdoor cleaning, interior or exterior maintenance, repairs)
Define age discrimination
When all their workers are laid off
And apply for another course sector job, and I rejected in favour of younger applicants because of the belief that older workers are harder to retrain, and will have difficulty adapting to new technologies
