Well-being in the workplace Flashcards

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1
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What was the original approach of organisational psychology

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Individual differences

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What is the contemporary approach to organisational psychology

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Social, economic and political context

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Has career mobility led to more skills but less employee commitment and loyalty to orgs?

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Yes

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What four factors do orgs look for in employees

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Flexibility
Adaptability
Innovation
Resilience

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Is bullying in the workplace rare or common

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Common

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What makes employees focus on feeling good over learning and developing for the future

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Instability

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When people regard themeselves as sexually attractive are they more aggressive in the workplace

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Yes

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How do employees see challenges when they have a good vision of the future

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Growth opportunities

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How do employees see challenges when they have a poor vision of the future

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Threats to self-esteem

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What makes an org’s vision for the future more successful?

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Accounting for current direction, org past and employee values

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What is an exercise for realising your values

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Clenching left fist for two/three minutes to activate right hemisphere of brain

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Are the best values implemented immediately or a few years after leadership change

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Few years after

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Is changing strategy right away under new leadership good

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No, it can be damaging

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14
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Does unique vision attract or repel employees

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attract

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15
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Who has increased the diversity of the workforce

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Women and ethnic minorities

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According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, what is diversity?

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Valuing everyone as individuals

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What is a benefits to orgs of increased job satisfaction due to diversity?

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Reduced costs from recruitment

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18
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Does meeting the needs of diverse customers enhance customer relations

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Yes (by definition)

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19
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Does diversity enhance org creativity, flexibility and innovation

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Yes

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20
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Does diversity lead to unsustainable development and business disadvantage

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No, the opposite

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21
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Does diversity lead to cultural closeness between employees

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No, diminishes cultural relatedness

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22
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Does diversity require greater financial support for flexibility

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Yes

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23
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Does diversity improve workplace harmony or increase conflict

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Increase conflict

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24
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Does diversity lead to potential conflict with other orgs

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Yes

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25
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What to orgs use to summarise their position on diversity?

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Diversity action plan

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According to Mullins (2010), are outsourcing, the spread of production methods and increased competition from newly industrialised nations part of globalisation

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Yes

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According to Mullins (2010), has globalisation caused an increase or a decrease in international communication

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Increase

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According to Mullins (2010), has globalisation led to increased or decreased awareness of different workplace attitudes and beliefs

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Increased

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Did the 2008 financial crisis suggest that globalisation was driving equality or inequality in the developing world

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Inequality

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What is workplace bullying according to Worksafe Victoria

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Repeated and persistent negative behaviour directed at an employee that creates a risk to health and safety

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Is repeated behaviour over a prolonged period a distinguishing criteria of workplace bullying

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Yes

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32
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Is perception of being bullied a distinguishing criteria of workplace bullying

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Yes

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33
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Are the negative consequences to the individual a distinguishing criteria of workplace bullying

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Yes

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34
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Is a power imbalance between parties a distinguishing criteria of workplace bullying

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Yes

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35
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Is workplace bullying increasing in Denmark, UK and USA

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Yes

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36
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Can the studies that compare bullying across Denmark, UK and US be compared

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No they used different methodologies

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If a person has high conscientiousness, low extroversion, high neuroticism and low assertiveness what type of personality might they have

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Victim personality

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If a person is aggressive, violent, tyrannical and has either very low or very high self-esteem what type of personality might they have?

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Perpetrator personality

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39
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Are victim and perpetrator personality types individual or organizational antecedents to bullying

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Individual

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40
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Is interesting and challenging work an organisational antecedent to bullying?

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No, uninteresting and unchallenging work is

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Are poor leadership and working conditions organisational antecedents to bullying?

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Yes

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42
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Is the changing nature of work an organisational antecedent to bullying?

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Yes

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43
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Are people with submissive personalities perceived as easy targets, unable to defend themselves and unable to cope and lack peer support

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Yes

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44
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Do overly anxious and conscientious people experience workplace bullying more often

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Yes

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45
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Is perpetrating workplace bullying associated with an unrealistic sense of self

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Yes

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46
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Is perpetrating workplace bullying associated with a realistic self-esteem

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No, overinflated

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47
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Is perpetrating workplace bullying associated with high social competence

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No, low social competence

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48
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Is perpetrating workplace bullying associated with high emotional control and empath

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No, low emotional control and empathy

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Is perpetrating workplace bullying associated with competitiveness and dominant behaviour

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Yes

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50
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According to Aquino and Lamertz (2004) what are the four archetypal roles of bullying

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Submissive victim
Provocative victim
Dominating perpetrator
Reactive perpetrator

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51
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According to Aquino and Lamertz are submissive victims low in self-esteem and assertiveness and high in introversion and anxiety

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Yes

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52
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What are the two types of bullying according to Aquino and Lamertz

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Episodic and institutionalised

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53
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What types of bullying will occur in a relationship between a submissive victim and dominating perpetrator

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Low episodic

High intsitutionalised

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54
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What types of bullying will occur in a relationship between a submissive victim and reactive perpetrator

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None

55
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What types of bullying will occur in a relationship between a provocative victim and dominating perpetrator

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High episodic

Low institutionalised

56
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What types of bullying will occur in a relationship between a provocative victim and reactive perpetrator

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Low episodic

High institutionalised

57
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What three factors moderate bullying

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Imbalance in social power
third-part actors
central position in organisation’s social network

58
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Does the likelihood of episodic or institutional bullying increased when an org culture has strong norms to support punishment, aggression and coercive power as motivators

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Institutional

59
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Does the likelihood of episodic or institutional bullying increase when an org culture has strong norms supporting incivility and rude behaviour

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Episodic

60
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What are the three levels of Coyne’s (2011) framework for dealing with bullying

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Org
Group
Individual

61
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What is the function of Coyne’s (2011) framework for dealing with bullying

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Prevent, support and remedial action

62
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According to Coyne’s (2011) framework for dealing with bullying what is the role of the Group level

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Changing norms and values

63
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According to Coyne’s (2011) framework for dealing with bullying what is the role at the individual level

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Interventions to stop victims and perpetrators
Support mechanism
Grievance support

64
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According to Coyne’s (2011) framework for dealing with bullying is the role of the organisation to identify risks and develop a culture of dignity and respect

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Yes

65
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What level of Coyne’s framework does staff surveys sit at?

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Organisational - support

66
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What level of Coyne’s framework does team-building sit at?

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Group - remdial

67
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What level of Coyne’s framework does cognitive re-definition sit at?

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Individual - remedial

68
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What level of Coyne’s framework does awareness training sit at?

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Group - preventative

69
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What level of Coyne’s framework does mental toughness training sit at?

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Individual - preventative

70
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Does work-family conflict involve a mutually incompatible conflict between work and family domains

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Yes

71
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What is the major contsraint for workers with families

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Time

72
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Does role overload or role interferance cause tension

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Yes

73
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Are work-family conflicts integral to modern work

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Yes

74
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Is work life balance mutually beneficial for all participants

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Yes

75
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Does work life balance account for individual circumstances

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Yes

76
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Have Australians achieved work life balance

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No

77
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What is the key factor in failing to achieve work-life balance in Australia

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Work hours

78
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How much unpaid overtime is there in Australia in a year and how much of all hours worked does this represent

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$110 billion (14.7%)

79
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What proportion or workers reported improvement in worklife balance due to decreased work hours or changing jobs

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30%

80
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Who plays the key role in preventing change to work life balance in Australia

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Employers

81
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Is work-life balance sometimes a matter of personal responsibility

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Yes

82
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Is work-life balance driven by role fulfillment

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Yes

83
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Do people underestimate or overestimate the amount of work they can get done in a given time

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Overestimate

84
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What is the planning fallacy

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Underestimating the duration of tasks

85
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What is a good exercise to prevent the planning fallacy

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Thinking of two or three things that could go wrong in every given task

86
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To set realistic deadlines is it better for the individual or a group to set them

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Individual

87
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What is the cause of women experiencing greater levels of work-family conflict

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Enduring differences in sociological roles between genders

88
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Are fathers who take paternity leave more likely to have active roles in child-care tasks

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Yes

89
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Does a father taking paternity leave have a beneficial effect on a child’s learning ability

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Yes

90
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In the media reporting on BHP, did the mother or father have to meet evidentiary proof that they were the primary carer

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Father

91
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In denmark, what proportion of dads take a fortnights leave

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90%

92
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How many countries offer more than two weeks paternity leave

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Half a dozen

93
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Is paternity leave good for women’s careers

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Yes

94
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Does paternity leave improve children’s performance at secondary school and is this effect more pronoucned with sons or daughters

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Yes, and daughters

95
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What are the three core elements of workaholism?

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Time spent on work
Preoccupation outside work hours
Working beyond what is reasonable

96
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Is spending more hours at work due to internal compulsion over extral factors associated with workaholism

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Yes

97
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Is an ability to detach from work associated with workaholism?

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No, an inability to detach from work is

98
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Are job involvement/commitment, job stress, perfectionism and difficulty delegating associated with workaholism

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Yes

99
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Is there disagreement over the definition of workaholism

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Yes

100
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Was Oates defintion of workaholism related to addition or traits

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Addiction

101
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According to Quinones & Griffiths (2015), does the multifaceted approach to workaholism have theoretical support

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No

102
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According to Quinones & Griffiths (2015), what is the limitation of the workaholism battery scale

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Enjoyment and work invovlement not supported. Drive the only factor left

103
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According to Quinones & Griffiths (2015), what are the limitations of the Work Addiction Risk Test

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Only control and compulsive tendencies differentiate workaholics from non-workaholics

104
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According to Quinones & Griffiths (2015), does the Dutch Work Addiction Scale need excessive behaviour or is compulsivity sufficient

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Compulsivity is sufficient

105
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Does the Bergen Work Addiction Scale take a syndrome or component approach to workaholism

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Component

106
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What is a positive stereotype of a workaholic

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A highly devoted team member who overperforms

107
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What is a negative stereotype for a workaholic

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Unhappy obsessive with low job performance

108
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Does workaholism provide people with an acceptable avenue to neglect other aspects of their life

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Yes

109
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Do biopsychosocial elements contirube to workaholism

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Yes

110
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What personality traits contribute to workaholism

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Compulsivity
Obsessiveness
Perfectionism
Nueroticism
Conscientiousness
111
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Is low self-worth predictive of workaholism

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Yes

112
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Are achievement and self-direction cognitive styles predictive of workaholism

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Yes

113
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What is introjected regulation

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Partially internalised standards of social approval and self-worth

114
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Does having a highly demanding family life reinforce values of effort and discipline make you more or less lilkely to be a workahoklic

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More

115
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Is workaholism higher in professionals

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Yes, especially in medicine

116
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Is there good, mixed or weak evidence about job satisfaction for workaholics

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Mixed

117
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Is workaholism the same as work engagement

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No

118
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Should research on workaholism distinguish between short-term gains and long-term costs

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Yes

119
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According to the demand-control-support model, what is high job strain

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Low control over job
High job demand
Low social support

120
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What factor contributes to employee health outcomes over and above psychosocial conditions

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Organisational fairness/justice

121
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Although the traditional intervention focuses on the individual, what does the settings approach focus on

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Physical, social and organisational elements

122
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What does LeMaontagne argue for in an integrated approach to health in orgs

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Protect, promote and address

123
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Is ergonomics related to the design and use of tools, layout of office environment and posture, movement, repetitiveness and strength

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Yes

124
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What are the four physical areas of ergonomics

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Individual physical differences
Posture
Reach
Clearance

125
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Does ergonomics use subjective, objective and behavioural methods to assess human response in the work environment

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Yes

126
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What is an autotelic activity

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An activity we engage in because it is so intrincially rewarding

127
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What are Bakker (2008) elements of flow

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Absorbtion
Enjoyment
Intrinsic motivation

128
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In flow, what is dynamic equilibrium

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Syndergy between demands of a task and ability to complete it

129
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Is the idea of the suffering artist inherent in creativity or due to societal roadblocks

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Due to societal roadblocks

130
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Do artists tend to come from middle class backgrounds

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usuaully higher or lower class

131
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Is high curiosity, low-self centeredness, interest in life, persistence and resilience associated with an autotelic personality

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Yes

132
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What elements of flow predict in-role performance

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Work enjoyment (not absorbtion)

133
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What elements of flow predict extra-role performance

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Intrinsic motivation