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Week 12 Flashcards

1
Q

How is job satisfaction typically measured and where

A

In North America through surveys

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2
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What is the standard question for job satisfaction surveys?

A

All in all, how satisfied are you with your job?

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3
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Three concerns with job satisfaction surveys

A

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

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4
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General transfer job satisfaction: what can we say about older workers?

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Older workers are more satisfied than younger workers

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5
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General trends in job satisfaction: what can we say about men and women?

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Little difference between men and women, in self reported job satisfaction

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6
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Define alienation in terms of work

A

Human condition resulting from an absence of fulfilling work

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7
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Define job stress

A

An individual experienced negative reaction to a job or work environment

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8
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Define burn out

A

Individual unable to cope with job

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9
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Two types of stressors in job stress

A

Objective situations (noisy work environment)

Events (dispute with supervisor)

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10
Q

Work related stress is difficult to measure independent of ______ _____

A

Job satisfaction

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11
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Two types of symptoms for work related stress

A

Physical and mental

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12
Q

List 4 general types of key stressors in job stress

A

Job insecurity

Organizational restructuring

Supervisors

Harassment

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13
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Two consequences of job stress

A

Physical reactions

Mental health

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14
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What does the demand-control model refer to

(What does a label stressors as)

A

Job demands and worker control

(Stressors= job demands)

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15
Q

Define active and passive jobs

A

Active: high decision, making potential

Passive: low decision making potential

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16
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Demand and control model: what does this equal

A

Less stress

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17
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Demand and control model: what does this equal

A

Stress

(And high potential for physical and psychological ill health)

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18
Q

Describe the demand-control model of stress

(Diagram)

2 box labels, axis

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19
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What model is this

A

Person-Environment fit model

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20
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Person-Environment fit model: give an example

A

Stress and burn out among social workers and teachers

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21
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Person-Environment fit model: considers ______ orientations (________ focus)

A

Work

Individualistic

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22
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Define work values

A

The meaning of work in a particular society

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23
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Define work orientations

A

Meaning attached to work by particular individuals

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24
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Define job satisfaction

A

Individual and subjective response to a person to material and psychological job rewards

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25
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Define manifest work functions

A

Maintaining or improving standard of living

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26
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Define latent work functions

(And example)

A

Contribute to an individual’s well-being

(Experiences of creativity, sense of purpose)

27
Q

Work as a curse: what does Hardwork equal?

(And what type of labour is this)

A

(Penal and forced labour)

28
Q

Work as a curse: what did St. Thomas Aquinas say?

A

Not ALL work is a curse or necessary evil

29
Q

Work as a Service/vocation: where did this come from?

A

Protestant reformation and Martin Luther

30
Q

Work as a Service/vocation: work as a central component of _____ __

Work as a “____”

A

Human life

“Calling”

31
Q

Work as personal fulfilment: the humanist ______

A

Tradition

32
Q

List the 2 types of freedom at work

A

Freedom from nature

Freedom from coercion of other people

33
Q

Define freedom from nature

A

Creative activity done independently of daily necessities

34
Q

Define freedom from coercion of other people

A

Contractual relation between legal equals, free to pursue their own interests

35
Q

Work: define identity

A

Work as a source of self identification, self definition, incorporating, personally, relevant attributes, social roles, and group categorization

36
Q

What are the two historical work values?

A

Freedom

Identity

37
Q

When did industrialization and bureaucracy take place?

A

Late 1800s/early 1900s

38
Q

Define proliferation of positions

A

Fitting people to jobs

39
Q

What two ideas relate to the proliferation of positions

A

Industrialization in bureaucracy

40
Q

There was a rise of _______ and ______ of INDIVIDUAL skills

A

Psychology

Testing

41
Q

When did IQ measures and ability take place?

A

About 1890

42
Q

Matching: three categories of the basic assumptions

A

Individual

Position

Other factors

43
Q

The Protestant ethic, and the spirit of capitalism is written by who

A

Max weber

44
Q

What does the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism argue?

A

-emphasized how Calvinist that had broken away from the Roman Catholic Church embraced, hard work, rejected worldly pleasures, and extol the virtues of frugality

45
Q

What does the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism suggest?

A

Religious beliefs, encourage people to make and reinvest profits and intern gave rise to work. Values conducive to the growth of capitalism.

46
Q

What explains the rapid growth of east Asian economies?

A

Confucian work ethic

47
Q

Define Confucian work ethic

A

Traditional habits of hard work, greater willingness to work towards a common goal, and employees ready compliance with authority

48
Q

Define Rifkin’s “ end of work”

A

New technologies and global production patterns would essentially mean the end of work as we know it for many people

49
Q

Define the culture of overwork

A

Managers, professionals, common other advantage workers are willingly taking part in the new culture of overwork

50
Q

Overwork has become a what signal and why

A

A status signal as many professional, take pride in the long hours they work, and how they multitask

51
Q

What used to be a sign of status for the upper and middle classes?

(And what was this replaced by)

A

Leisure

(Culture of overwork)

52
Q

List the 3 different ways that David Lockwood believed British working class. Man perceived social inequality.

A

Proletarian

Differential

Instrumental

53
Q

David Lockwood: define proletarian workers

A

Saw the world in an “ us against them” conflict with their employers

54
Q

David Lockwoods ideas about proletarian workers are consistent with which philosopher

A

Marks

55
Q

David Lockwood: define differential workers

A

Also, recognize class differences, but excepted the status quo, believing that wealth and power in equities were justified

56
Q

David Lockwood work orientations: which two types were found, primarily in declining industries

A

Proletarian

Differential

57
Q

David Lockwood: define instrumental workers

A

Workers had a dominant feeling of indifference, just wanted to obtain a better standard of living

58
Q

David Lockwood labelled what type of workers as privatized workers

A

Instrumental workers

59
Q

Define roll overload

A

Having more role demands than one can possibly fulfil

60
Q

To consequences of women’s labor, force participation

A

Work family conflict

Roll overload

61
Q

What does the outsourced self talk about?

(And example)

A

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)

62
Q

Define core house work

(And examples)

A

Regular house work

(Meal prep, meal, clean up, indoor, cleaning, laundry)

63
Q

Define noncore house work

(And examples)

A

Infrequent house work

(Outdoor cleaning, interior or exterior maintenance, repairs)

64
Q

Define age discrimination

A

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

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