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How is job satisfaction typically measured and where

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In North America through surveys

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What is the standard question for job satisfaction surveys?

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

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Three concerns with job satisfaction surveys

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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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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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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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Define alienation in terms of work

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Human condition resulting from an absence of fulfilling work

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Define job stress

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An individual experienced negative reaction to a job or work environment

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Define burn out

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Individual unable to cope with job

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Two types of stressors in job stress

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Objective situations (noisy work environment)

Events (dispute with supervisor)

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Work related stress is difficult to measure independent of ______ _____

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Job satisfaction

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Two types of symptoms for work related stress

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Physical and mental

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List 4 general types of key stressors in job stress

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Job insecurity

Organizational restructuring

Supervisors

Harassment

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Two consequences of job stress

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Physical reactions

Mental health

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What does the demand-control model refer to

(What does a label stressors as)

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Job demands and worker control

(Stressors= job demands)

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Define active and passive jobs

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Active: high decision, making potential

Passive: low decision making potential

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Demand and control model: what does this equal

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Less stress

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Demand and control model: what does this equal

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Stress

(And high potential for physical and psychological ill health)

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Describe the demand-control model of stress

(Diagram)

2 box labels, axis

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What model is this

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Person-Environment fit model

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Person-Environment fit model: give an example

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Stress and burn out among social workers and teachers

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

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Work

Individualistic

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Define work values

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The meaning of work in a particular society

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Define work orientations

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Meaning attached to work by particular individuals

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Define job satisfaction

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

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Define manifest work functions
Maintaining or improving standard of living
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Define latent work functions (And example)
Contribute to an individual’s well-being (Experiences of creativity, sense of purpose)
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Work as a curse: what does Hardwork equal? (And what type of labour is this)
(Penal and forced labour)
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Work as a curse: what did St. Thomas Aquinas say?
Not ALL work is a curse or necessary evil
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Work as a Service/vocation: where did this come from?
Protestant reformation and Martin Luther
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Work as a Service/vocation: work as a central component of _____ __ Work as a “____”
Human life “Calling”
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Work as personal fulfilment: the humanist ______
Tradition
32
List the 2 types of freedom at work
Freedom from nature Freedom from coercion of other people
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Define freedom from nature
Creative activity done independently of daily necessities
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Define freedom from coercion of other people
Contractual relation between legal equals, free to pursue their own interests
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Work: define identity
Work as a source of self identification, self definition, incorporating, personally, relevant attributes, social roles, and group categorization
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What are the two historical work values?
Freedom Identity
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When did industrialization and bureaucracy take place?
Late 1800s/early 1900s
38
Define proliferation of positions
Fitting people to jobs
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What two ideas relate to the proliferation of positions
Industrialization in bureaucracy
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There was a rise of _______ and ______ of INDIVIDUAL skills
Psychology Testing
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When did IQ measures and ability take place?
About 1890
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Matching: three categories of the basic assumptions
Individual Position Other factors
43
The Protestant ethic, and the spirit of capitalism is written by who
Max weber
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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
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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.
46
What explains the rapid growth of east Asian economies?
Confucian work ethic
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Define Confucian work ethic
Traditional habits of hard work, greater willingness to work towards a common goal, and employees ready compliance with authority
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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
49
Define the culture of overwork
Managers, professionals, common other advantage workers are willingly taking part in the new culture of overwork
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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
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What used to be a sign of status for the upper and middle classes? (And what was this replaced by)
Leisure (Culture of overwork)
52
List the 3 different ways that David Lockwood believed British working class. Man perceived social inequality.
Proletarian Differential Instrumental
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David Lockwood: define proletarian workers
Saw the world in an “ us against them” conflict with their employers
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David Lockwoods ideas about proletarian workers are consistent with which philosopher
Marks
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David Lockwood: define differential workers
Also, recognize class differences, but excepted the status quo, believing that wealth and power in equities were justified
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David Lockwood work orientations: which two types were found, primarily in declining industries
Proletarian Differential
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David Lockwood: define instrumental workers
Workers had a dominant feeling of indifference, just wanted to obtain a better standard of living
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David Lockwood labelled what type of workers as privatized workers
Instrumental workers
59
Define roll overload
Having more role demands than one can possibly fulfil
60
To consequences of women’s labor, force participation
Work family conflict Roll overload
61
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)
62
Define core house work (And examples)
Regular house work (Meal prep, meal, clean up, indoor, cleaning, laundry)
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Define noncore house work (And examples)
Infrequent house work (Outdoor cleaning, interior or exterior maintenance, repairs)
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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

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